Radical vs Liberal Islam
Tempo
January 21, 2003
Radical Islam" is a term applied to a grouping of certain Islamic movements. This term is already in use among Western academicsJohn L. Esposito and Horace M. Kallen to be specific. This topic has even become the point of study for several theses at the Syarif Hidayatullah campus of the State Islamic University in Jakarta. More accurately, "radical Islam"
M. Dawam Rahardjo*
*Dean of the Bekasi University of Islam