Did the Catholicism reform itself?

Submitted by jennifer solis (United States), May 23, 2008 at 17:50

I believe the Hadiths are a good place to start, and any "reform" of Islam that succeeds in chipping away at it's totalitarian ideology would be progress.

However, I wonder if such a thing can occur on behalf of parties that use Islam as their platform.

When the head of the ministry, Ali Bardakoglu, states, "We are not reforming Islam. We are reforming ourselves", that is apologetics; it is not "reform".

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