As per the advice of an adminsitrator, this topic is suggested for Comparative Religions.
Many Muslims and non Muslims see that the Islamic world has been at theological war with itself almost since the faith's advent, one that carries over to this very day. It explains the global battle between Islamists and non Islamists, a battle which has spilled over to our part of the world both because of our involvement in the Islamic world, and because of Islamic immigration to the West.
Prominent Muslim writers Stephen Schwartz and Irshad Manji have both wavered on the question of a Reformation. Schwartz initally argued that a Renaissance is what is needed, saying that Wahabbism represneted a prior reformation gone very, very bad. But not too long ago he revisited the quesion. In a rceent article, Manji (and Masoor Ijad) wondered if there osn't something intrinsic to the faith that gives rise to Islamism and its violence. If so, then that is an argument for a reformation, such that the peaceful, spiritual side to the faith is its only side.
I realize that some will consider the proposal for this topic to be, in and itself, more than contentious, and even, in some manner or another, racist and bigotted. Yet, there are enough entirely peaceful, democratically minded Muslims wondering exactly this. Surely they are neither racist nor bigotted against their faith. This is, perhaps, the hidden, but essential, question, the answer to which may be the solution to Islamism's - not Islam's - war on Islamic and Western democracy.
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