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You're sort of talking about two very different scales there. Ibn Kathir is an individual scholar whose Tafsir of the quran is extremely influential. Hanafi and Maliki are the names of two entire schools of thought. The two categories are not incompatible, i.e. no one is an 'adherent' of Ibn Kathir in the sense that one might follow one of the schools, while an avowed Hanafi or Maliki is not unlikely to read and accept the interpretation of Ibn Kathir.
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What I was saying is the Imams/Sheiks of the Hanafi/Maliki schools of thought/law stay primarily within the interpretations held by their school. With VERY few of these teachers speaking out against the use of terrorism, and the majority openly supporting it, it says a lot against the notion that it's only a few violent people within the society. If the leaders of the religion openly support it why are we to assume the population do not?