Muslims promoting Islam: Islam is the truth. We care about the truth. Atheists against Islam: There's no evidence. We can’t accept it as truth. We care about the truth. Atheists for Islamic reform: Just believe whatever, as long as they're not hurting me! Who cares about truth!?
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If we promote Islamic reform, we're promoting Islam, we're promoting superstition. We can support Muslims fighting for secularism, gay rights, woman rights & democracy without giving Islam undeserved credit. Give those Muslims the credit. Not everything a Muslim does is Islam.
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I'm not suggesting we promote Islam. By supporting Islamic reform, what I mean is that we should initially focus our attacks on the targets of reform, the worst sects like Wahhabism, and the worst aspects like FGM, and as we beat these back, we can move onto more moderate aspects
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I understand where you're coming from, and I struggle with this myself. But ultimately I agree feeding the fairy tale isn't helpful. There has to be a way a way of talking to Muslims with respect while not supporting the idea that Muhammad was either perfect or a prophet.
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I would never support the idea that Muhammad was perfect or a prophet. But I would echo the *rational* arguments of those Muslims who sought to knock Muhammad down a peg, such as this one: https://www.opendemocracy.net/sara-azmeh-rasmussen/our-fallible-prophet …
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