rinselberg

quote Originally posted by randye: Once again proving the point: If islam was ONLY a religion it probably wouldn't be a problem.....BUT IT ISN'T

I think we're just about on the same page!


What is this "reformation of Islam"..? The words that emerged at the end of my previous post:
https://www.fiero.nl/forum/F...HTML/115585.html#p32

quote The other guys say that Muslims would have to give up their allegiance to Islam, in order for them to live peaceably in a multicultural world that accommodates any and all religions (and atheism and its variants). I say that they merely have to perfect their practice of Islam, by using the knowledge in this Open Letter. A very tall order for “merely”, but what I recognize (and the other guys don’t) is that the barriers that Muslims would have to dismantle are only the barriers of ignorance (of their own religion) and centuries of “bad habit”. They are not barriers that are in any way part of the foundations of Islam. This Open Letter shows how Muslims could—in theory—complete the dismantling of these barriers to a "game changing" reformation of Islam, without dismantling Islam itself.

The problem isn't Islam; it's Islamism. The convergence of Islam and governance that is the norm for all of the modern day Muslim-majority nations.

The reformation of Islam proceeds by removing the "ism" from Islamism, and rediscovering Islam as the Five Pillars--and nothing more than the Five Pillars. This attains the requisite separation of mosque and state.

Phase One is Triage
Militant jihadism is abandoned.

Phase Two is Containment
Muslims in nations that are not already Islamized in their governance--in North America, South America, Europe and Australia--wherever Muslims are a minority of a national population--embrace the Five Pillars and enshrine separation of mosque and state as one of their core principles.

Phase Three is Rollback
National governments that were already Islamized before the start of Phase One--the governments of all of the Muslim-majority populated nations of today--achieve 100 percent secularization of governance in a series of smaller and more manageable steps.

The Open Letter to Al-Baghdadi is part of the knowledge base that makes this all work. Alongside new, critical writings, including:

• The Study Quran
  
• Reading the Qur'an in the Twenty-First Century: A Contextualist Approach

Five Pillars of Islam; Oxford Islamic Studies Online
http://www.oxfordislamicstu.../e1859?_hi=17&_pos=3


THEORETICAL.

[This message has been edited by rinselberg (edited 03-05-2016).]