Islam is a relatively young religion so I hope and think in time it will reform.
These are two religions younger than Islam Heyjustlooking,
the Bahai faith in the 19th century &
Unitarian Universalism in the 20th century.
These are fully reformed religions, although they're far younger than Islam, & in case of the Bahai religion, was born out of Islam & emerged in the theocratic hellhole called Iran.
None of those ugly practices & systems associated with Islam are present in either of these.
How? If age is the factor behind Islamic non reform?
In fact, younger religions should be better, coz they apparent come to fill a gap in the existing ideologies.
Jesus supposedly banned stonings(maybe thats' a later addition, but as I said it doesn't matter if these figures even existed, only important thing is what they teach) which was something Jews did & something which needed to be banned, he also outlawed unilateral repudiation of wives by husbands(another thing Jews did & Muslims do in talaq)-so he did bring new stuff in.
In case of Muhammad, not only did he not bring such pleasant developments, he didn't even retain Jesus improvements like the banning of stonings.
Jews too had by then abandoned stonings by creative reinterpretations, Muhammad made them stone & added stonings into his faith.
Although Judaism & Christianity didn't teach wife beating, Muhammad did (Quran 4:34 & many hadiths).
Even the Bahai faith, which emerged from Islam in the 19th century, brought complete gender equality & gave women voting rights before any nation on earth had these stuff.
Islam's problem isn't that its new, its problem is that it was regressive even by the Judeo Christian standards from which it emerged & that its worse than faiths much younger than it, even faiths like Bahai which emerged from it.
I was just wondering Rashna you want Muslims out of Islam so have you ever tried doing that to your mother. Surely one of the persons you care about the most should be protected from this evil ideology at all costs.
My mom is out of Islam in all ways but name, my grandpa is a devout Muslim, but he's old & frail so I don't like to hurt his feelings by debating something which gives him such comfort. It was a huge disappointment to him when my mom married a non Muslim man who refused to convert to Islam.
I think that the younger generation, like my cousin Adil, must be encouraged to leave Islam.
Topic: Clarifying the Council's position: Against Political Islam not Muslims