The battle for the soul of Islam heats up

There has always been a sort of civil war within Islam (at least so far as I can make out), and this is now heating up.

On one hand are the majority of peace-loving and law-abiding muslims who want to get on with their own lives, and consider their religion a matter of their own personal relationship with their God

On the other hand are those, as in Al Qaeda and Hizb ut-Tahrir, who are committed to a more radical, extreme or "pure" form of Islam, for example: http://www.smh.com.au/national/muslims-obligated-to-resist-democracy-say-radicals-20110703-1gxfw.html#ixzz1RJgIdX7G Sphere: Related Content