You Can’t Reform Islam Without Reforming Muslims

Canada Free Press ^ | 10/23/14 | Daniel Greenfield

[Sean_Anthony]

To change Islam, we would have to understand why its ugliness still speaks to Muslims

Every few years the debate over reforming Islam bubbles up from the depths of a culture that largely censors any suggestion that Islam needs reforming.

But Islam does not exist apart from Muslims. It is not an abstract entity that can be changed without changing its followers. And if Islam has not changed, that is because Muslims do not want it to.

Mohammed and key figures in Islam provided a template, but that template would not endure if it did not fit the worldview of its worshipers. Western religions underwent a process of secularization to align with what many saw as modernity leading to a split between traditionalists and secularists.

The proponents of modernizing Islam assume that it didn’t make the jump because of Saudi money, fundamentalist violence and regional backwardness. These allegations are true, but also incomplete.

[Billthedrill]

Why do you regard it as regretful?

Because discarding that principle is exquisitely subject to abuse by the government, which is merrily doing precisely that at the moment with regard to the gay marriage issue and its impact on Christians who object.

[definitelynotaliberal]

True that.

[Yosemitest]

Re-FORM them INTO DUST !