Asghar Ali Engineer, head of Mumbai’s Centre for Study of Society and Secularism:
“This small number of fanatical clerics is taking their followers back to the times of barbarianism. Taking a life has absolutely no justification,” he added.”
Asghar Engineer (yes, that’s his name) is partly right, the clerics he’s talking about are taking their followers back to times of barbarism, which means to the time of their prophet, and in accordance with traditional (and roundly approved) Islamic teaching. Engineer’s views, no matter how noble, are in the minority, which makes him an endangered species. KGS