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0(1) This phenomenon, fundamentalism, extremism, is all over the place, and it is augmented everywhere across the world, but especially in the Abrahamic world, by the political events that are taking place by the West against the Islamic world or those parts of the Islamic world which are considered to have abetted the activities of these terrorists who do terrible acts in the name of Islam.02br
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00Should it be "by the West" or "in the West"? Please check.02br
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00(2) This flowering of what is called fundamentalism is to be seen, of course, in all of the three monotheistic religions, and they were all strengthened during this time and after September 11th. But it is not unique to them. These's such a thing as Hindu fundamentalism, which resulted in the destruction of the Babri Mosque or the killing of 3,000 Gujaratis in one day a couple of years ago and many other phenomenon, and the Tamil Tigers and what they’re doing in Sri Lanka.02br
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00Can changing "There's such a thing" give clarity of meaning? Please clarify.02br
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00(3) And I've said, jokingly, there are so many people who are supposed to be experts on Islam and they do not know whether Islam is spelt with an s or a z.02br
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00"spelt" or "spelled" in US English? Please clarify.02br
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00(4) In Morocco, already, the year before last-01del00I was there02del00-the Sultan of Morocco reestablished a very, very important ceremony which had gone back for centuries, bringing Sufism and North Africa together in a place named Marrakesh, which the French shut down when they were colonizing North Africa for fear of people meeting each other.02br
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00Is the phrase "before last-01del00I was there02del00-the Sultan of" ok? Is it before the last Sultan? Please check.02br
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00(5) You have local conditions, like in certain parts of Pakistan, sometimes among certain groups in Iran---although right now, Sufism is flowering, especially intellectually in Iran—who oppose this or that Sufi order, but that's 01b00is02b00 an epiphenomenon.02br
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00Can 01b00is02b00 be deleted?02br
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00(6) Just three, four days ago it was the birthday of the Mahdi, the fifteenth of Shahbaan, the month before Ramadan, the fasting month which starts in less than ten days from now.02br
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00Can 01b00to02b00 be inserted in three to four days?02br
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00(7) My life has been devoted to it for the last fifty years, I've been writing 01b00to02b00 this subject, this subject of bringing back to life traditionalist Islam, with its dimension of inclusivism, openness, and vast intellectual and spiritual heritage, which is refuted by both the Salafis and the modernists---by both the Islamic fundamentalists and the modernists—to make use of this intellectual and spiritual heritage to find a modus vivendi with Christianity and Judaism, and to present a version of Islam to the world which can live with the world without submitting itself to the follies of the world in which we live.02br
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00Can 01b00to02b00 changed to 01b00on02b00?02br
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00(8) As an organizer of a meeting of a hundred imams and rabbis in 00 last 01b00years02b00, I can testify to the fact that what was uppermost on the minds of Jews and Muslims had to do with what's happening with mutual images,02br
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00Should it be 01b00year02b00?0-
  

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0Hi,02br 02br 01font 001) This phenomenon, fundamentalism, extremism, is all over the place, and it is augmented everywhere across the world, but especially in the Abrahamic world, by the political events that are taking place by the West against the Islamic world or those parts of the Islamic world which are considered to have abetted the activities of these terrorists who do terrible acts in the name of Islam. 00 02font 02br 02br 01font 00Should it be "by the West" or "in the West"? 02font 02br 02br 00Your sentencerambles a bit.

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  • 0Hi,02br 02br 01font 001) This phenomenon, fundamentalism, extremism, is all over the place, and it is augmented everywhere across the world, but especially in the Abrahamic world, by the political events that are taking place by the West against the Islamic world or those parts of the Islamic world which are considered to have abetted the activities of these terrorists who do terrible acts in the name of Islam.
  • 00 02font 02br 02br 01font 00Should it be "by the West" or "in the West"?
  • 02font 02br 02br 00Your sentencerambles a bit.
  • It might be good to split it into two sentences, to make it clearer.
  • 02br 02br 01font 00(2) This flowering of what is called fundamentalism is to be seen, of course, in all of the three monotheistic religions, and they were all strengthened during this time and after September 11th.
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01font001) This phenomenon, fundamentalism, extremism, is all over the place, and it is augmented everywhere across the world, but especially in the Abrahamic world, by the political events that are taking place by the West against the Islamic world or those parts of the Islamic world which are considered to have abetted the activities
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