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To: Slapshot68; livius; brwnsuga
"Just think where they might be had Islam experienced a reformation similar to that of Christianity."

I've got to disagree with you there, Slapshot. "Reformation" is what Islam is going through right now, in the form of --- get ready for it --- radical Wahhabism.

Wahhabism is Islamic Puritanism. That's fascinatingly explained in this article from H.W. Crocker in Crisis magazine.

Wahhabism (radical Reformation) calls for scriptural literalism pristinely sheltered from reason or logic; strict moralism and the extirpation of all "impure" elements, conflation of Church and State on the basis of Cuius regio, eius religio (Church of England, Church of Sweden, Church of whatever-German-prince); et-freakin-cetera.

Islam --- religious falsehood--- doesn't need a Reformation. It needs to be replaced by religious truth.


http://www.crisismagazine.com/julaug2006/feature1.htm
73 posted on 01/04/2008 9:28:49 AM PST by Mrs. Don-o (Mammalia Primatia Hominidae Homo sapiens. Still working on the "sapiens" part.)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

The conventional wisdom among Protestants who know nothing of the Reformation is that it was a “liberal” movement. But the “liberals” of Luther’s time were men like Erasmus or Thomas More, both of whom opposed Luheranism.


76 posted on 01/04/2008 11:27:27 AM PST by RobbyS
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