Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman rattles Muslim clergy, challenges sources of sharia

[Geee]

American Thinker

This is huge. Those of us who have had hopes that Saudi Arabia can transformed from a sponsor of hardline jihad into a modernizing force in the Islamic world have cause for hope.

Remarks made by the real ruler of Saudi Arabia, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MbS), suggest that he carefully laying the grounds for a fundamental reinterpretation of orthodox Islam.

 

Tarek Fatah, a fellow at the Middle East Forum, writes in the Toronto Sun:

When the de facto ruler of Saudi Arabia, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, challenged the fundamental precepts of Islamic Sharia in an interview on April 28, the tremors were so deep, they left most Muslims and their clerics in a state of silent shock.

MBS, as the crown prince is known, had questioned the very validity of 'Hadith' literature – sayings attributed to Prophet Muhammad – that provide much of what is today considered Islamic Law in places as far apart as Aceh in Indonesia to University campuses in California in the West.

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@Geee

Something I have said, soon after THAT day in 2001, this (GWOT) is really a battle inside Islam. Is Islam going to adjust its self to the modern world, or not. 

 

I'll be interested in 1. will someone at TOS post this 2. What does Robert Spencer say about this?