.@iain_mk2 @m_katoen @MaajidNawaz The difference between reforming & liberal Muslims is that reformers honestly acknowledge the bad bits.
No, it needs to get rid of principles incompatible with liberal, secular democracy. I think it does.
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You think that Muhammad as an exemplar is compatible with liberal, secular democracy? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Muhammad isn't compatible. So, they have to reshape him, bend the scriptures. It is intellectually 1)
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Its a huge problem epistemologically, not ethically.
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How is challenging the nonsense of religion unethical? Islam is nonsense, no matter how it is revised.
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Its not. Do it. I do. Every day.
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Unless it's nonsense coming from Quilliam's interpretation of Aisha's age? You can't see how absurd that is?
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Of course its absurd. Religion is. Two questions here. True & ethical.pic.twitter.com/65xy9JkjQL
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Quilliam's Usama arguing that Sharia courts have helped women: http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/islam/beliefs/sharia_1.shtml … Not true. Not ethical
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