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Saudis to retrain 40,000 clerics
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Saudi Arabia is to retrain its 40,000 prayer leaders - also known as imams - in an effort to counter militant Islam.
Details of the plan were revealed in the influential Saudi newspaper Al-Sharq al-Awsat.
The plan is part of a wider programme launched by the Saudi monarch a few years ago to encourage moderation and tolerance in Saudi society.
The ministry of religious affairs and new centre for national dialogue will carry out the training, the paper said.
The centre was created five years ago to disseminate a moderate interpretation of Islamic tradition.
There is growing awareness in Saudi society that security measures alone are not enough to counter the threat of Islamic militancy.
Scepticism
Saudi clerics have long been accused of encouraging Saudi youth to join global jihad and of inciting hatred of non-Muslims.
Nearly 1,000 imams have already been sacked over the past few years.
The Saudi royal family has come under increasing pressure - mainly from Washington - to change religious textbooks and to rein in militant clerics.
But critics are sceptical about whether such initiatives would work as long as the powerful, and ultraconservative, religious establishment in Saudi Arabia continues to exert enormous influence over society.
Only last week, a prominent cleric called for the beheading of two liberal writers who had questioned the orthodox view that Muslims can not change their religion.
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''retained''? with their acceptance or against their wishes? and which religious textbooks?!
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Last edited by zzze : 03-21-2008 at 08:31 PM.
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03-21-2008, 04:01 AM
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Re: Saudis to retain 40,000 clerics
It is common knowledge, that Saudi Arabia, like a lot of other Muslim/Arab Countries right now has prisoners of faith and have their own people, including Imams and students of knowledge detained under some conditions. Mainly, the pressure has been from the West. Of course, with a lot of Saudi society being conservative, there will always be clash between the government and the people. So I'm not suprised that they have taken up these measures, to 're-train' Imams.
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03-21-2008, 07:16 AM
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Re: Saudis to retain 40,000 clerics
Uh, its retrain and not retain
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03-21-2008, 07:21 AM
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restrain perhaps?
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03-21-2008, 07:26 AM
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perhaps I'll refrain from remaining in this thread
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03-21-2008, 07:46 AM
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Re: Saudis to retain 40,000 clerics
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03-21-2008, 08:04 AM
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i agree and support this idea, mainly because i know there are a lot uneducated Imams giving fatwas to the youth and brainwashing them to do Jihad.
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03-21-2008, 08:12 AM
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Uhh no it's better he refrain from remaining donchaknow 
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03-21-2008, 09:35 AM
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tea stain? 
okay i totally killed it didn't I? 
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03-21-2008, 10:21 AM
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Re: Saudis to retain 40,000 clerics
Okay, you guys, stop picking on zzze. 
We all make spelling mistakes once in a while and she probably did it without thinking.
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assalamu alaykum
ahahaha.
I misread it, my apologies. Used to such concepts here 'restrain, retain, force, kill, inprison' etc etc etc.
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03-21-2008, 06:31 PM
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Re: Saudis to retain 40,000 clerics
I feel like there is no one to root for in the House of Saud. The two opposing groups are the American puppet, party loving, liberal elite monarchy vs the hardcore Salafis/Wahabbi who take things way too far in regards to mistreatment of women and minorities.
I don't like either of them and kind of hope they just take each other out.
But the more I think about I wonder if the 2 groups are really just in bed w/ one another as much as the Salafis claim to be conservative they have no problem with monarchy and vice versa. Sometimes I honestly believe the entire Wahabbi movement is just an American funded stunt to give Muslims and non-Muslims a bastardized version of "Sharish law", in hopes that it will cause even religious Muslims to prefer Western style Deomcracy to the **** they do in Saudi.
But what do you guys think? Really like to hear the opinon of a Saudi
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