KUDA IDU AMERICKI MUSLIMANI?
ISLAM AND MUSLIMS IN THE WESTERN WORLD: WHERE ARE AMERICAN MUSLIMS GOING?

Summary/Abstract: Only after the 9/11 attacks have all the deficiencies in the American Muslims' organizations come to light. These organizations have completely failed in the long-term community development planning, because their programs failed to appropriately address foreign policy, religiously inspired violence, the role of the women, interpretation of the Qur'an and political activism. Therefore, we can say that the state of the American Muslims today is extremely difficult. The main cause lays in the fact that the American Muslim community does not educate its own ulama. Today we have medical doctors, vets or engineers promoting the Islamic education in America, thus replacing the traditional alim, who use to be the source of knowledge about Islamic traditions. Organizations like ISNA, ICNA, CAIR, mosques and Islamic centers are run by the Muslims educated in the West, replacing a thousand years old tradition of Islamic sciences, developed through separate Islamic disciplines, requiring a full devotion to a teacher-student principle and the issuance of the appropriate diplomas.

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