[GladesGuru]

Whether this leader can do a “Thesis/Cathedral Door” in the Islamic world remains to be seen.

However, he is aware that while other Muslims start wars with Israel, the Egyptians do must of the dying.

IMHO, reforming Islam is not possible. Therefore we will have to play Cowboys & Muslims.

[Capt. Tom]

IMHO, reforming Islam is not possible. Therefore we will have to play Cowboys & Muslims.

To reform Islam you would have to have a supernatural intervention to change the rules.
So far there haven't been any new Muhammeds who have gotten a new message from above.

So we are stuck with the message in the Koran, and the examples set by Muhammed in the Hadiths.
That message is, Allah wants believers in him (Muslims) to subjugate, convert or kill anyone who does not believe in him.
And that targeted group is us Infidels. -Tom

[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.