islam needs a Martin Luther. It needs a reformer who is not afraid to be radical if that is what is needed to right the wrongs of his faith. Someone inside islam must seize the initiative and make it plain to the deluded followers of what has become a gutter psychopathology that the death of their children as martyrs in a pointless struggle against others is not the highest intent of the Almighty.
The Anti Christ?
Perhaps impossible, according to this informed analysis.
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/HA10Ak01.html
"islam needs a Martin Luther. "
Gosh, I hope not! "solo scriptura" applied to the Quran is a formula for the fundamentalism that wahhabists represent. Read the 9th Surah, Bin Laden does!
NO, what Islam *really* needs is a Muhammed scholar to tell them the truth: That Muhammed was a flawed man who lied in parts of the Quran, if not all of it. They need to tell every Muslim that the original real religion that Muhammed was creating was Judaism itself and if they want to be honest they need to look in the mirror and say "I am a Jew", and that the pagan rituals Muhammed adopted to create Islam were a corruption solely designed for political purposes to gain adherents (ie to win over Mecca; this is what the 'satanic verses' were about)... and, Last but most important, that the lie that TORAH and Christian BIBLE were 'corrupted' was not introduced by Muhammed at all (check the Quran, it never said that) but by later Islamic leaders trying to compete with those religions. Muhammed's original project/idea was to create a Judaism for the Arabs, but when the Jews themselves rejected him, he turned on the Jews and attacked them.
In the end, building an understanding that Islam is a parasitic and derivative religion, that has inherent flaws and contradictions, should help moderate its views.
"It needs a reformer who is not afraid to be radical if that is what is needed to right the wrongs of his faith. "
The unerlying foundation and religion from the days of Muhammed are flawed, and have been flawed ever since Muhammed used his 'revelation' to kill dissidents, take his relatives wives, and break agreements to attack and kill other tribes, and groups (like Jews of Medina). You cannot 'reform' such a foundation into health, you must have muslims who announce and declare Muhammed himself as a flawed man.