This is a critical moment in Islam’s contact with the West. Even if one discards Salman Rushdie’s diagnosis that “there is a deadly mutation in the heart of Islam”, and even if the West is simply paying a lip service to the urgency for the need for reforms in Islam for its own safety, the 1.6 billion moderate Muslims must seize upon this moment to push for reforms in their societies. A good start will be to look back at the prescient genius of poet, politician and philosopher Muhammad Iqbal, who nearly a century ago had painstakingly advocated for the need to reinterpret the laws of Islam, and to liberate it from the moribund interpretation of 7th century Islam.
Posted on: Tue, 20 Jan 2015 08:36:11 +0000
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