Sufism Offers Spirituality Traditional Muslim Trends Don’t And Keeps Young From Turning To Extremism – OpEd

Sufism, the mystical trend in Islam, can be an ally of Muslim mullahs and imams and even the Russian state, by attracting young Russians to it and thus protecting them from the baleful influence of radical “pseudo-religious extremism,” Ildar Safargaleyev says.

The head of the Islamic research department of the Moscow...