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Can Islam's leaders reach its radicals ? - -

By Dan Murphy

from the July 14, 2005 edition

Can Islam's leaders reach its radicals?

Hard-line Islamists are increasingly isolated from mainstream Muslims.

By Dan Murphy | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor

CAIRO � Within hours of the attack on London, some of the Muslim world's most influential preachers were expressing their outrage.

Sheikh Mohammed Tantawi, who runs the venerable Al Azhar university in Cairo, told Islamonline.com, "Those responsible for the London attacks are criminals who do not represent Islam."


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