The first week of 2015 marked the beginning of an ideological battle between two camps of Sunni Islam: the Reformists and the Fundamentalists. This battle will determine the future of the Middle East, Islamic Faith, and the survival of Muslim Communities around the world. This may seem to be quite a grandiose statement, but the reality that surrounds us today quite portrays its legitimacy. We have six failed states (Libya, Yemen, Syria, Iraq, Somalia, Afghanistan) that together resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths, and millions of refugees in one of history’s worst humanitarian crisis. The new self-proclaimed Caliphate, ISIS, controls vast majority of land and resources in Syria and Iraq. It also launched attacks against Lebanon, Jordan and most recently Saudi Arabia. European nationalism has been on the rise over the past year, portraying Islam and Muslim immigrants as public enemy number one. In the midst of all this chaos, two camps just played their drum rolls as they announced the beginning of a battle. The first camp includes Egyptian President Abdelfattah Al Sisi who called for a “religious revolution” while delivering a speech to Al-Azhar’s leading figures and…
