A True Islamic Reformation

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By Ibn Warraq
FrontPageMagazine.com | May 19, 2003

Warraq calls for the separation of mosque and state and the promotion of secularization in the Islamic world.

Learning from how secularization took place in the West, secularisation in Islamic societies can be promoted by:

- Scholarly Criticism of the Koran;
- Secular education encouraging critical thought;
- Encouraging religious pluralism by defending non-Muslims in Islamic societies;
- Encouraging secular democracies not tyrannies; and
- The practice of self-criticism.

But he seems to be asking Islam to become the equivalent of liberal Christianity and Judaism.


The relationship between Islam and the rest of the world will only change when the views on the Right change.