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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Asra has a degree in communications and journalism. She can opine all she wants on religious topics, but Muslims know she doesn't speak as an authority. There are plenty of religious scholars out there, Muslims and nonMuslims, who Muslims can rely on. Asra is no scholar on anything Islamic.[/quote]

The notion that Islam is so arcane it can only be understood and practiced correctly with the guidance of scholars is laughable.  The Quran itself says its meaning is clear.  And the message was sent to a people who were largely nomadic and illiterate and had no scholars amongst their midst.

What is clear is that there is a simple creed ("There is no god but God, and Muhammed is the prophet of God") and four other clear pillars of religious practice.

Most of the rest is angels dancing on the head of a pin, no matter what "scholar" Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi (who has a PhD in Islamic theology--love to see that dissertation) or his ilk says.  It is regrettable that so many of these "scholars" spend their time counting angels and disseminating their views that the real scholars have to spend time refuting their spurious views of Islamic belief and practice instead of studying larger theological questions like the role of free will in Islam.

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