nuconvert, the Christian reformation was founded on extra-biblical actions taken by the church, and demanded a return to the biblical basis of theology.
A muslim reformation requires fundamentally rewriting significant portions of their ‘gospel’, removing the militant components (and the societal legal components, to bring compatibility with western law).
A failure to recognize this bedrock difference between the two situations in favor of hope is unwise, to say the least.
“A muslim reformation requires fundamentally rewriting significant portions of their ‘gospel’, removing the militant components (and the societal legal components, to bring compatibility with western law).”
Fine. Let them do it.
“nuconvert, the Christian reformation was founded on extra-biblical actions taken by the church, and demanded a return to the biblical basis of theology.
Good point.
A similar Islamic reformation that stripped away any extra-Koranic teachings would get back to massacre, rape, pillage, beheadings and all of the other extreme violence practiced by Mohammed.
In other words, exactly what ISIS is doing.