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Abdul Bari was not alone in refusing to condemn a strict interpretation of Koranic scripture. In 2003 the Muslim writer (and grandson of Muslim Brotherhood leader Hasan al Banna) Tariq Ramadan declared on French television – in a debate with Nicholas Sarkozy – that as a progressive step there should perhaps be ‘a moratorium’ on the stoning of women. Although he was – and still is - widely described as a ‘reformer’, Ramadan was unwilling to call for an outright rejection of such medievalism.
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