Below is a snapshot "borrowed" from a panel discussion by Timothy Furnish, a former U.S. Army Arabic interrogator; Tawfik Hamid, an Islamic thinker and reformer; M. Zuhdi Jasser, M.D., President and Founder of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy (AIFD); and Robert Spencer, scholar of Islamic history, theology, and law and director of Jihad Watch.
This is a very important topic. An interesting summary by Robert Spencer in this panel notes that:
"Islamic reform circa 2010 remains largely an abstraction, a postulate, an intellectual construct. No one has ever actually seen it, and so everyone imagines it in a different way. Islam has been around for 1,400 years, and yet there is still no mainstream sect or school of jurisprudence that teaches the separation of mosque and state, the equality of rights of women with men, the freedom of speech, the freedom of conscience, or the equality of rights of unbelievers with believers."
The panel also noted the following: The dilemma in Islam is that anyone who wants to change any part of the Koran and/or Sharia to modernize it, it considered a heretic and subject to death; such as separation between Mosque and state; a catch-22 situation.
The panel also noted that Christian reformation was allowed to occur because there wasn't a call for killing reformers, as there is in the Islamic doctrine.
To read the entire panel discussion, go to:
http://www.jihadwatch.org/
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