RE: Does Islam Need A Reformation (supossedly a debate but not really)
March 19, 2016 at 4:05 am
(This post was last modified: March 19, 2016 at 4:06 am by Justtristo.)
The Islamic world already had a Reformation* and the result of that were was the emergence of Wahhabism which can be equated with Calvinism in the Christian world. There are a lot of parallels as I see between the Puritans who settled New England or ruled England just after the Civil War in the 1640's and the Taliban or the Islamic state.
I would argue the Islamic world needs is an Enlightenment not a Reformation. Because the Western world was as intolerant or even more so than the Islamic world is now before the Enlightenment.
* The Reformation in Europe was an attempt to get back to the "True" Christianity of the New Testament. Wahhabism had much the same objective when it comes to restoring what they see as the "true", authetic" Islam of the Quran.
I would argue the Islamic world needs is an Enlightenment not a Reformation. Because the Western world was as intolerant or even more so than the Islamic world is now before the Enlightenment.
* The Reformation in Europe was an attempt to get back to the "True" Christianity of the New Testament. Wahhabism had much the same objective when it comes to restoring what they see as the "true", authetic" Islam of the Quran.
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