The Islamic Supreme Council of America (ISCA) is a Muslim religious organization in the United States.

The ISCA strives to integrate traditional scholarship in resolving contemporary issues affecting the maintenance of Islamic beliefs in a modern, secular society. The Council states that it promotes traditional Islamic legal rulings, and that it explicitly rejects puritanical forms of Islam, such as the Wahhabi Islam practised by Saudi Arabia, the Taliban, and many terrorist organizations who espouse Islamist ideologies.

Shaykh Hisham Kabbani, founding member and current chairman of ISCA, is critical of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and the American Muslim Council, saying, "There are many Muslim organizations that claim to speak on behalf of the Muslim community but that in reality are not moderate, but extremist."^[1]

However the ISCA has been linked to neoconservative political thought and has been rejected by mainstream Muslim organisations in the US as being unrepresentative of American Muslims.

The ISCA is praised by Daniel Pipes, who describes it as "relatively small".^[2]

References

1. ↑ Jake Tapper, "Islam's flawed spokesmen", Salon.com, 26 September 2001 (accessed 27 January 2007).
2. ↑ Daniel Pipes, "The Danger Within: Militant Islam in America", Commentary, November 2001 (accessed 27 January 2007).

External links

• Islamic Supreme Council of America

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