Egypt president calls for "religious revolution"

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Sisi: "I say and repeat again that we are in need of a religious revolution".

Egypt’s Sisi Slams Islamism, Calls for ‘Religious Revolution’
http://www.frontpagemag.com/2015/raymond...evolution/
January 5, 2015 by Raymond Ibrahim

Speaking before Al-Azhar and the Awqaf Ministry on New Year’s Day, 2015, and in connection to Prophet Muhammad’s upcoming birthday, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, a vocal supporter for a renewed vision of Islam, made what must be his most forceful and impassioned plea to date on the subject.

Among other things, Sisi said that the “corpus of [Islamic] texts and ideas that we have sacralized over the years” are “antagonizing the entire world”; that it is not “possible that 1.6 billion people [reference to the world’s Muslims] should want to kill the rest of the world’s inhabitants—that is 7 billion—so that they themselves may live”; and that Egypt (or the Islamic world in its entirety) “is being torn, it is being destroyed, it is being lost—and it is being lost by our own hands.”

Nice sentiments, but it sounds like another intellectually bankrupt appeal to Muslim's better natures. A revolution would have to condemn the barbaric prophet Mohammed. Good luck with that.

I'm guessing ISIS has the whole Middle East spooked now, and each country knows the head-choppers will be on their doorstep if they don't offer another interpretation of Islam that moderate Muslims will fight for.