My long engagement with issues of Islam, particularly Islamic law, has completely convinced me that all problems related to it stem from its misinterpretation.

This is the exclusive reason for the increasingly intensified extremism, which touches upon, and sometimes surpasses, the limits of the distortion of its essence, as the divine message in Islam.

The sources of Islamic law, especially the primary ones, as well as the traditional scholarly cultivation of it, until the 10th century AD when the gates of Islamic legal reasoning were definitively closed, determined the permissible and divinely sanctioned limits, according to Islam, of "holy" war, the transgression or ignorance of which is forbidden and punished, both in this world and in the hereafter, as disobedience to the divine will and command.

[...] (From the preface of K.Θ. Nikolaou-Patraga)