A Belief System in Need of Reform
(Some may have issues with the source, but I find this video quite compelling. – LS)
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WarSclerotic 
June 27, 2015 at 5:17 AM
I agree, LS. PJW made some excellent points, reflective of having thought things through more thoroughly than most individuals….or mainstream political, “analysts. as concerns Saudi Arabia as the mother lode of terror enabling…it’s been as obvious as the nose on my face for years and years!
And, PJW’s commentary, regarding the collective blame heaped upon white existence for the Charleston massacre, while continuously hectoring us that there is NO collective islamic guilt, is nearly scintillating!
June 27, 2015 at 9:08 AM
AYAAN HIRSI ALI Why Islam Needs a Reformation
http://www.madisdead.blogspot.co.il/2015/03/why-islam-needs-reformation.html
Ayaan Hirsi Ali:
I have identified five precepts central to Islam that have made it resistant to historical change and adaptation. Only when the harmfulness of these ideas are recognized and they are repudiated will a true Muslim Reformation have been achieved.
Here are the five areas that require amendment:
1. Muhammad’s semi-divine status, along with the literalist reading of the Quran.
Muhammad should not be seen as infallible, let alone as a source of divine writ. He should be seen as a historical figure who united the Arab tribes in a premodern context that cannot be replicated in the 21st century. And although Islam maintains that the Quran is the literal word of Allah, it is, in historical reality, a book that was shaped by human hands. Large parts of the Quran simply reflect the tribal values of the 7th-century Arabian context from which it emerged. The Quran’s eternal spiritual values must be separated from the cultural accidents of the place and time of its birth.
2. The supremacy of life after death.
The appeal of martyrdom will fade only when Muslims assign a greater value to the rewards of this life than to those promised in the hereafter.
3. Shariah, the vast body of religious legislation.
Muslims should learn to put the dynamic, evolving laws made by human beings above those aspects of Shariah that are violent, intolerant or anachronistic.
4. The right of individual Muslims to enforce Islamic law.
There is no room in the modern world for religious police, vigilantes and politically empowered clerics.
5. The imperative to wage jihad, or holy war.
Islam must become a true religion of peace, which means rejecting the imposition of religion by the sword.
June 27, 2015 at 4:32 PM
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A Belief System in Need of Reform