(03-04-2026, 08:46 PM)Moon68 Wrote: Exactly! All the world's major religions have experienced a reformation EXCEPT for Islam. As written, the Qur'an and Hadith isn't compatible with the modern world, same as Old Testament fundamentalism.
I think that some elements of Islam ARE trying to reform it, right now, and the current resurgence of Fundamentalist Islam is a throwback to the 7th and 8th centuries in a bid to drag it back into the medieval era (from their perspective "back to it's roots"), and is just a reaction to the attempted reforms.
A bloody, nasty, "stack bodies as high as you can, just like Mohammed did" reaction, but a reaction nonetheless.
With any luck, they will eventually move into the political arena to attempt imposing their will as well, but in order to do that, they are going to have to dissociate their politics from their religion from their social order and financial order to some degree, and they clearly are not yet up to that stage
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“Trouble rather the tiger in his lair than the sage among his books. For to you kingdoms and their armies are things mighty and enduring, but to him they are but toys of the moment, to be overturned with the flick of a finger.”
― Gordon R. Dickson, Tactics of Mistake
― Gordon R. Dickson, Tactics of Mistake