Thought for the Week: Combating fanaticism

Michael Gittins reflects on fanaticism and how to combat it

by Michael Gittins 11th December 2015

The just and nonaggressive nature of Islam has often been highlighted by commentators. There is much that is true here and the interpretation of ‘jihad’ as the interior struggle against the self to force it into obedience to God accords with the nonviolent tradition of the Ahmadiyya Muslims.