Yasmine Mohammed ياسمين محمد  🦋

Reformation and secularism are not mutually exclusive. You can be BOTH. @MaajidNawaz supports reform and is a secularist.

Indeed. Rouhani is an Islamist, not a secularist. There is no reforming Islamism. It must be intellectually terminated. Alongside that, even in secular contexts, Islam today needs reform. There is no contradiction here & no need to desperately scramble to find one.

Melissa, they are mutually exclusive. We are talking about a Reformist Islam government -that’s in coming late opposition to Secularism. Maajid does not advocate for that.

It’s not a “reformist Islam government”. It’s an Islamist theocracy. Islam in government is Islamism by definition&diametrically opposed to secularism. There is no room for compromise in the principle of secularism. Whereas reforming Islam must continue even in a secular context

That’s how you define it. That’s not how the Iranian Reformists are defining it. This is one of the major issues w Islamic reform in general. It means different things to different ppl.

No, that’s how Iranian reform Islamists are defining it. There are also Iranian reform secular clerics who’ve existed pre ‘79 Islamist revolution & still exist in Iran & Iraq. Problem is most don’t know the history of development of Islamism vs Islam.