Mike T
2009-03-23 08:49:03
It is a positive development that moderate Muslims are speaking out against Islamic leaders who openly promote and practice domestic violence. But until they find better leaders than Saalakhan, Siddiqi, and Badawi, and institutions like MANA, ISNA, and CAIR abandon their theology that tolerates wife beating, there is little hope that things will improve for women in the Muslim community anytime soon.
As long as it is in the scripture, it will never be “reformed.” Your solution is to tell them to pick and choose what to believe, and that will never work because the conservatives will always reject your bastardization of their scripture, and will never let you revise it. Islam is irreparably tainted at its very core.
