‘In Islam, they are all rotten apples’

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‘In Islam, they are all rotten apples’: Ex-Muslim’s call for religion’s reboot

In “Heretic,” Ali says there are three kinds of Muslims. There are the violent, the reformers, and what she believes is the largest group â€" those who want to practice as they see fit and live peaceably but do not challenge the Quran, the Muslim world’s treatment of women and the LGBT community, or terrorist attacks committed in the name of Islam.

Yet she refuses to label this group as moderate. She believes they have done nothing to deserve it. “I’ve never believed in the word,” Ali says. “It’s totally useless. I think we’re in a time now where we demand answers from Muslims and say, ‘Whose side are you on?’ ”

Ali argues for five amendments to the faith. “Only when these five things are recognized as inherently harmful and when they are repudiated and nullified,” she writes, “will a true Muslim reformation have been achieved.”

Those five notions are:

   

The infallibility of the Prophet Muhammad and the literal interpretation of the Quran

    The idea that life after death is more important than life on Earth

    Sharia law

    Allowing any Muslim to enforce ideas of right and wrong on another

    Jihad, or holy war

Rejecting these ideas, some of which date to the 7th century, is a shocking proposition to the faithful.

“The biggest obstacle to change within the Muslim world,” Ali writes, “is precisely its suppression of the sort of critical thinking I am attempting here.”

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Reforming Islam? Not going to happen. Not now, at any rate.

Islam is in ascendance, the west is weak, unsure of it's own culture, the politicians are compromised or complicit.

The general populace is ignorant about Islam and apathetic.

Islam rides roughshod all over the planet. Who is to stop it? Who cares?

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I am so tired of all religions that think there God, or gods, make them good people while justifying their evil deeds. I have always thought the last man on earth would be a preacher or priest praying, now I believe it will be a cleric.  Solitary