Author: professor-ihsan-yilmaz

We live in difficult times. For those who care about the Muslim world, Muslims or non-Muslims, the realities that we see are deeply disturbing.  No one can deny that the Muslim World is presently mired in a deep crisis. For those Muslims living in western democracies the situation is very much better but nevertheless there is the depressing reality that: on the one hand, the religion which they love for its values and message of compassion and justice for all has, in recent decades, been hijacked by the violently extremist global movement known as Jihadi Salafism, a pastiche ideology...