“Is it possible that 1.6 billion people should want to kill the rest of the world’s inhabitants ... so that they themselves may live?
Sure, why not? That’s how people are.
It would have been much easier to reform the NAZI Party into a womens’ garden club.
Islam is at its core evil.
Mohammed was the perfect Muslim. Mohammed was a liar, a thief, a rapist, and a murderer.
“Islam needs its own Martin Luther,”
Mohammad specifically forbade the altering or moderating of Islam - to do so would be to gainsay both mohammad and allah; any one doing so must be killed.
An Islamic Martin Luther’s career would be short and bloody.
Islam needs to be eradicated.
The only thing that will ‘reform’ islam are a lot of fast neutrons and gamma rays.
So, suddenly Islam is going to believe women are equal to men before God?
The West can NOT reform Islam. Any idea that we can help, participate, prod or poke in any direction is sheer fantasy.
We can only watch, and protect ourselves from its malign influence.
The guys who need reforming have all the guns and don’t want reform of Islam. The targets (who want reform) do not.
How’s that gonna go?
Uhhhh, the emergence of radical Islam WAS the Muslim reformation. It took them back to their original fundamentals.
When the Bolsheviks took over Russia, they were a very small group. There were many other socialist parties in Russia. But the Bolsheviks were the most radical. Many millions would die or live in slavery thanks to the Bolsheviks.
When the Nazis started out they were just another small, socialist group. But the radicals quickly took over, and we saw how that ended.
Islamism is the same. Most muslims are not violent people. But because of the radical tenets in the religion, the most violent and ruthless Muslims rise to the top.
Look at Turkey. Kemal Ataturk tried to create a secular society inside a Muslim country. Well, who is running Turkey now? Erdogan...another Islamist tool.
So what does that mean for Islam? Can it be reformed without taking out what it means to be a Muslim? I don't think so.
Evil cults cannot be restored to decency, love, joy and peace.
A disease cannot be reformed, it must be cured - think cancer.
Reforming Islam is a concept similar to reforming Bubonic Plague or Staphylococcus aureus.
Muslims don’t want to kill the other 5+ billion humans so that they may live, because they don’t NEED to kill 5 billion others to live.
War-making and murdering was in Mohammed’s nature, and it is in the nature of those who honestly follow his teachings. You can’t make peace with an ideology that has taking over the rest of the world as a core value.
You can’t make peace with Staphylococcus aureus, either; you just have to use a whole lot of bleach.
The sooner and harder the feel-good brigade tries to ‘reform’ Islam, the better. Because that has one result. Massively radicalized ‘moderate’ muslime who move from a terror support role to open Jihad.
We can fight them or let our kids do it later while we cower now. But one of us will. People ar going to have this reality forced on them. They can pearl clutch, hand wring and make all the excuses they want. It does not change their future.
Islam cannot be reformed. THE KORAN COMMANDS ALL INFIDELS BE SLAUGHTED AND ISLAM SHOULD RULE THE WORLD.
Pray for conversion of moslems.
http://www.catholic.org/news/international/middle_east/story.php?id=40398
It is not possible to reform Islam without rewriting the Koran. Just ditching the “inappropriate” parts of Koran would truncate it severely. The Hadiths would have to be severely chopped down, too, and the Biography. The religion would then be based on a couple of pamphlets.
I see NONE!