Wednesday, February 27, 2008

A Reformation?

Turks undertake radical revisions to the Hadiths!!!

So. I am now, more than ever, convinced we are at the beginning of a Reformation movement in Islam. Questions. Questions. Questions. Are we at the Avignon Papacy stage? The John Wycliffe stage? The Martin Luther Stage? Or what? And how long will it take? In Europe the Reformation and Counter Reformation lasted centuries.

Who will history judge as the Islamic Reformation's most heroic champions? My theory has always been that they will come from within Western civilization, where freedom of expression is guaranteed (well almost). And I think we already know some of them, but that's a subject for a future blog series.

How viscious and protracted the counter reformation? We have already seen how viscious they can be, but it seems they haven't figured out yet just how strong and determined the West can be - if it has the will. Funny how a presidential election in the US can have consequences that may take generations, if not centuries, to unfold. Why does this feel like walking on the sharp edge of a razor?

We live in interesting times.

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