Muslims, Democracy, and the American Experience

Salim Mansur counters the Islamic extremists:

... The reform of Muslims, as was that of Christians, is neither an event nor an instant in time but a process deeply frustrating, ugly, and, at its end, not entirely predictable. This is true of any reform process but even more so of reform driven by the ideals of a religion. ...

The Qur'an sets an imperative tone on the need for reform by insisting that it must come from within people themselves. A well-known Qur'anic verse reads, "Verily God does not change the state of a people till they change themselves" ...

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Posted by Andrew Jaffee at July 8, 2005 11:59 AM