Reformatorernas skadliga fokusförflyttning om vad som utgör det verkliga problemet med islam (i västerlandet) ...
"You are to Islam what Mormonism is to Christianity.
You deceive people into believing the problem isn’t the canonical scripture and in doing so you leave the West vulnerable."
Imagine if Christianity were an ideology that commanded its followers to take over the world and install a theocratic government, and for 1,300 years its followers ran an empire that erased civilizations.
Then, when the empire fell, hundreds of Christian groups terrorized the world to reestablish it, and the majority of Christians knew that these groups represented Christianity and chose to ignore everything they did out of fear and resignation.
Now imagine a small minority of Christians decides to throw out Christianity as 2 billion people know it, taking some of the canonical scripture and reinterpreting it completely to make it compatible with the modern world.
Let’s call this group, for example, the Mormons.
Now these Mormons want us to consider them the true representatives of Christianity, even though Christians themselves don’t accept them as Christians, and when we say, “Sorry, you don’t represent Christianity,” they accuse us of being radicals.
That’s the problem.
We can’t accept the Muslim reformers as the authentic representatives of Islam, because their Islam is decoupled from the real thing: fourteen centuries of history and the example of Muhammad.
And the deeper reason we don’t accept you as the true representatives is that you are actually harming the West.
You deceive people into believing the problem isn’t the canonical scripture you’re busy reinventing, a reinvention no Muslim actually accepts, and in doing so you leave the West vulnerable.
Have the courage to admit that Islam itself is the problem, and that what you’re doing is inventing a new religion and calling it Islam too, only because your situation won’t let you abandon the religion altogether.
You are to Islam what Mormonism is to Christianity.