response to Michel

Submitted by Sohail (United Kingdom), Feb 6, 2007 at 06:02

In a nutshell, I was wondering, if within ISLAM there is a movement for a needed reform, as obviously the same happened within Christianity. Is there room in your religion to consolidate these ancient, sometimes very brutal texts with modern life? What does the local mosque teach? Are these horrendous acts by Al Khaeda and the likes, the beheadings on video, islamic terrorism really condoned? What are your scholars doing about it, - after all these acts have a religious "justification"? Why the silence in the islamic world instead of an outcry against such?

Of course Islam can be reformed.

Is there room in your religion to consolidate these ancient, sometimes very brutal texts with modern life?

What brutal texts?

What does the local mosque teach?

Most of them are influenced by the wahhabis in Saudi Arabia who teach hatred towards other people.

Are these horrendous acts by Al Khaeda and the likes, the beheadings on video, islamic terrorism really condoned?

Off course they are condoned.

What are your scholars doing about it, - after all these acts have a religious "justification"?

They really do nothing about it. Since they are all influenced by the saudis.

Why the silence in the islamic world instead of an outcry against such?

because most of them are wahhabis.

It would further help me, to understand your mindset, if you could roughly outline, where you are located.
(I am in Southern CA, US Citizen of European ( Swiss) origin.

I live in the UK.

Sohail

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