For Muslim scholar, political and economic interests are behind the violence in God's name

[CopyBoy]

Beirut (AsiaNews) – Sheikh Mohmmad Nokkari is a prominent Sunni scholar, and a leading figure in the Islamic-Christian Research Group (Groupe de recherché islamo-chrétien, GRIC). A judge and professor of law in Beirut, Dubai and Strasbourg, he is also a former director of Dar El Fatwa, Lebanon’s foremost Sunni authority.

In a recent article published in the French Lebanese daily L’Orient-Le Jour, he writes, “instead of religious wars, we should speak of political, economic and geostrategic wars.” For him, “behind the fanatic religious discourse lies a real struggle for world domination.” Indeed, “The great manipulators of the world” will do anything to defend their interests, going so far as to “turn the merciful and compassionate God into a destructive, oppressive and avenging God.”

In his article below, the Muslim scholar looks at Islam’s main historic sects and analyses today’s political messianism. Translation from the French by AsiaNews:

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[jediliz]

then how would he explain the attempted conquest of Europe over 1000 years ago? Not the same things obviously?