Islamic Reformers In U.S. Featured

Today's Boston Globe carries an interesting article on increasing pressure by Muslim scholars, intellectuals and professionals in the United States to liberalize Islam and align its teachings with American democratic values. One of those reformers is scholar Ahmed Mansour, who fled to the United States after a fatwa was issued against him in his native Egypt. Mansour was recently brought in as a defendant in a suit that has been filed by the Islamic Society of Boston. ISB claims that defendants' negative statements interfered with fundraising for the mosque. Mansour has attacked ISB over radical Islamist positions supported by the mosque. The suits and counter-suits surrounding the Islamic Society of Boston's efforts to build a mosque in Roxbury are discussed in an article that appeared last month in the Daily Standard.