Turkey is engaged in a bold and profound attempt to rewrite the basis for Islamic sharia law while also officially reinterpreting the Qur’an for the modern age.
The exercise in reforming Islamic jurisprudence, sponsored by the modernising and mildly Islamic government of Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the prime minister, is being seen as an iconoclastic campaign to establish a 21st century form of Islam, fusing Muslim beliefs and tradition with European and western philosophical methods and principles.
The result, say experts following the ambitious experiment, could be to diminish Muslim discrimination against women, banish some of the brutal penalties associated with Islamic law, such as stoning and amputation, and redefine Islam as a modern, dynamic force in the large country that pivots between east and west, leaning into the Middle East while aspiring to join the European Union…
Fadi Hakura, a Turkey expert at the International Institute of Strategic Studies, described the project as an attempt to make Turkish Sunni Islam “fully compatible with contemporary social and moral values.
There are those who say we should leave the Middle Eastern nations to find their own way out of the 6th Century. Perhaps this is one of those attempts.
Or is this nothing more than Islamist politicians hoping to move Turkey backwards from their secular constitution?
Be careful Turkey. Talk like this will draw the wrath of Al Qaeda. They feel things are just as Mohammad intended and there is no reason to ever change.
I’ve noticed alot of parallels… hmm… I think I see one major difference. Hitler never modified his manifesto to ease into anything he was looking to conquer and subdue. Anybody who willfully submits to anything having to do with Sharia will have done with the Moslem monsters what the Europeans didn’t ultimately do with the nazis.
I think we actually have to sacrifice a whole generation or two of the muslim population in order to have any hope for the kids of these defective idiots…..
#4 – click through to the article and, voila, there it is.
Mirror fog. Always a good source of interesting images.
well hopefully, finally Islam has gotten their Marin Luther who will nail his new treatise to the door of the mosque and lead them into the 20th century ( to much to hope for the 21st )
So they go from a scary religion to a less scary religion. BFD. Their culture is still back asswords.
It is guaranteed that someone will always yell PHOTOSHOPPED on any good photo.
BTW, how did things work out when all Muslims agreed on all things Islamic except the successor to Muhammed(pbuh)?
RBG
About friggn time. Good luck with that.
We need to send our troops there, or have them leave the bases in Turkey, and retake Istanbul! Once done we can rename it Constantinople!
Islam in the 21st century. Isn’t that an oxymoron?
Erdogan isn’t modernizing and mildly Islamic, his party is Islamic and mildly modernizing.
mmmmm….. turrrrrkey.
C’mon you cynics! You damn Muslims for being backwards and you mock their efforts to modernize.
Lots of Muslims think Islam desperately needs a reformation and who knows where it will come from. Maybe Turkey.
The only way to adapt religion to a modern age is to jettison it into space and hope it dies from lack of oxygen.
We didn’t go to the moon because of the bible, we went to the moon because a lot of people wondered what was up there and didn’t care about religious leaders threats to “quit worrying the moon and give us money”.