Can Islam Be Rescued from Islamism?

May 12, 2019 By Mordechai Nisan

Islamic terrorism in its violent expressions coexists with Islamic terrorism in thought. The blatant and barbarous aspect of Islamism, its murderous activities in New York and Jerusalem, Bali and London, Paris and Nairobi, Argentina and the Philippines, Madrid and Mumbai, Syria and Sri Lanka, mesmerizes world attention.

Yet the terror of thought is no less, and perhaps more, menacing and paralytic: it constricts freedom of consciousness, intimidates free speech, and submits and smothers society under conformist Islamist religious forces. Islam from its beginning promoted both jihad warfare "in the path of Allah" and dawa missionizing to advance the new religion and make it supreme, if not exclusive, in the world.

Salim Mansur, Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Western Ontario, is a believing but dissident Muslim. Among Muslim reformers and free thinkers in the West, like his fellow-Canadian Irshad Manji, also Nonie Darwish and Boualem Sansal, are those who categorically denounced Islam, pointing to the obscenity of compulsory female genital mutilation and "honor killings," beheadings, and brutal massacres.

Some left the fold; among these apostates are Ibn Warraq, Mohamed Sifaoui, and Ayaan Hirsi Ali. Some dissidents in Muslim lands fled into exile and required police protection. A noteworthy and particular case was that of Nobel Literature laureate Naguib Mahfouz, a Muslim secularist, who was assaulted by fanatics in Cairo, survived the attack, and remained in his country........... Read more

My Take - These guys are delusional, well intentioned not doubt, but delusional nonetheless.  There is no way anyone can attempt to re-interpret, or "abrogate" passages in the Koran to make it appear Islam is anything except a murderous political criminal entity masquerading as a religion. 

No matter what they claim are the foundations of Islam, in the real world, there are four pillars that make up the real foundation of Islam.  Hate, Greed, Lust and Violence.  That's history, and that history is incontestable.  That's been the driving forces of Islam from Muhammad's day, and it is now.  As long as Islam is allowed to continue, those will always be the driving forces. 

Islam without jihad, and all the violence, murder, rape, theivery and all the other degradations that goes along with that, it's no longer Islam.  You cannot 'reform" Islam and have it still be Islam.  They might as well convert and become Jews or Christians.