If the Koran is considered the Bible of Islam as I’ve read multiple times from multiple sources then there is no reforming Islam. It is an ideology from the mind of a sick, demented con man.
We have our own sick, demented cons in the Clintons, and their sycophants to defeat as well.
I’ve read several translations of the Koran, took a course in college on Islamic civilizations, knew Muslims in grad school, worked professionally with Muslims, traveled to their countries on business several times. Ok, “History of Religions, Origins & Development” is not my field, I am an engineer, but here’s my personal conclusion on it drawn mostly from experience & observation.
It’s a bad bad copy of Judaism! I know the current Catholic & Protestant seminarian academic view is its a surviving Gnostic Christian heresy - from a Gnostic group called the Elbionites (I am sure I spelled that wrong!) That’s least what two clergy pals (Catholic & Protestant) have told me. I’ve done a little reading that’s seem to confirm what they said about it being the current academic viewpoint. However I still don’t see it! My conclusion is its a horribly bad copy of Judaism with some Christian elements thrown in. My conclusion explains their utter disdain & hatred of the Jews all the way back to when Mohammed ordered the massacre of that northern Arabia Jewish tribe. Because psychologically they know what they have and practice is “inferior”, they know it came from somewhere else - the Jews!. Their tribal driven sense of religious superiority all rests on a lie, on a foundation of sand. So they have to over compensate, strike out violently at the infidels eliminate those who either know or can piece together the truth. Each “unbeliever” killed validates their belief system gives them the inner sense of superiority they need to keep being a believer.
Correlations with Judaism: strictly monotheistic, very rule & right practice oriented, very very focused on the sacred literature and its inerrancy, also very focused on its sacred language- Arabic (But which Arabic?), clergy training that very closely resembles medieval & Renaissance rabbinical schools in practice & behavior. There are scores of other correlations. (But I am tired of typing!)
Now please don’t anyone interpret what I have written as an attack on Judaism, or as an effort equate them or as any sort of approval of Islam. These are just my conclusions based on observations and some study.
All of this makes them dangerous to have in your society in any great number. Liberals have a hard time understanding Islam because liberals think religion is all nonsense. They can’t understand anyone motivated by a religion to simply kill innocents because the religion demands they do so.