This is excellent.
Well said, intelligent.
WHAT HE SAID.
Read the whole thing.
"Perhaps the major theological problem confronting the revisionist Muslim
community today—i.e., those whom we call “moderates” or
“secular-oriented intellectuals”—is the canonical scriptures which
define their faith and without which Islam would cease to exist."
"The
dilemma for these “enlightened Muslims” is the Koran itself, with its
ubiquitous summons to warfare, conquest, enslavement and social and
economic persecution of vanquished peoples, which is why they are
preoccupied, to the brink of obsession, with the twin concepts of
re-interpretation and contextualization."
Solway adds:
"If Islam were reformable, I would be in the vanguard of those
encouraging the anti-jihadist activists and the sparse handful of
moderates who have attempted to establish a new synthesis. But it is not
reformable. It cannot be re-interpreted, contextualized and transformed
while still remaining the religion of Allah and his Prophet."
"We need to know and name what we are dealing with and devise an
appropriate strategy to contest and defeat a determined adversary if we
intend to ensure our survival."
