[Mrs. Don-o]

The last thing we'd want is a "Thesis-Cathedral Door" thing. Today's jihadi's ARE the "Reformation" period of Islam. With other Reformations it shares these characteristics:

• anti-modern "back to the roots" in the sense of acting as if several thousand years of "development of doctrine" never happened or was totally contemptible
• "Sola Korana" Scripture-only focus
• "Sola Fide" with zero recognition of the integrity of human reason per se
• belief in an all-efficient fate, which the Muslims call "kismet" and other historic reformers called "predestination"
• intolerance for art and images: tearing down of statues, shrines, paintings, smashing out stained glass, whitewashing of mosaics and murals: done by all reformation movements in history;
• intolerance for veneration of holy people, places or things, saints, angels, etc.
• intolerance for human culture per se, if it is not specifically sanctioned, chapter and verse, in their holy books.

Radical Islam doesn't need a "Reformation". Radical Islam IS the Reformation.

[Usagi_yo]

This isn’t the Islamic reformation, this is the Islamic inquisition. the Islamic reformation comes afterwards.