Islamic terrorism in the first world no matter how disgusting and sad is almost statistically irrelevant, and is essentially done for terrorist PR and then used for monetary gains by the mass media.
And a much better reason why Islam needs to be reformed is for all of the people who either want a more moderate religion, aren't the majority religion/sect, or are secular in certain areas of the Middle east, central Asia and southern Asia.
If we could stop obsessing about our selves for 5 minutes we might stop and notice the violence we saw in France occurs in the middle east 3 - 5 times a week and almost entirely against other Muslims.
There are many theocracies that will openly kill anyone wh
Apologise in advance of anything I'm about to write is offensive, I'm just really curious to have this point addressed by someone who has some real expertise,
So my question is this, regardless of how people should and or shouldn't interpret the Quran, if it cannot be edited or changed then can we just sit back and expect people who aren't given the chance to study the Quran in a scholarly way to interpret it correctly?
When I hear someone condemn people for not coming the "moderate" viewpoint, to me just sounds like a rich 1st world person with every opportunity to learn the correct and sensible way to read the text blaming people without those opportunities for not reading the Quran rig