Reform Islam? Not Likely

The fantasy of doing the impossible

According to those who think they know more than they actually know, Islam is simply a religion that's in need of reform.

We're told that once those reforms are put in place, then Islam can truly become the "Religion of Peace" that its founder Muhammad intended for his fledgling faith back in the 7th century.

A woman named Ayaan Hirsi Ali knows a thing or two about Islam's current state of affairs. She was born a Muslim; grew up under the oppression that women are subjected to in the Muslim world and she underwent a medical procedure called FGM that stands for female genital mutilation.

The FGM procedure involves removing a woman's clitoris so that she's unable to enjoy sexual relations. FGM is a barbaric procedure that's practiced mainly in the Islamic world in order to subjugate women to their husbands.

And while Islamic men can enjoy all the sex they want with as many wives as they want, women must remain faithful to but one husband and cater to his ravenous sexual desires. A women who's even suspected of being unfaithful to her husband can be beaten or even executed without being able to defend herself.

As most folks know who still think for themselves rather than allow others to perform that task for them, Islam is and has historically been the enemy of women.  And yet we're repeatedly told by the leprous Obama Administration that conservatives, i.e. Christians, are the mortal enemies of women.

Ali knows otherwise. She was recently scheduled to speak at Brandeis University and receive an honorary degree from that institution when Muslim activists and liberals, who have become the grateful stooges of Islamic propaganda groups such as CAIR (Council on American-Islamic Relations) pressured the university to cancel her speech and rescind the degree.

Here's a portion of what Ali was supposed to say at Brandeis: "In Saudi Arabia, there has been a noticeable rise in the practice of female genital mutilation. In Egypt, 99 percent of women report being sexually harassed and up to 80 sexual assaults occur in a single day...In Iraq, a new law is being proposed that lowers to (age) nine the legal age at which a girl can be forced into marriage."

Ali then went on to say this: "Is the concept of holy war compatible with our ideal of religious toleration? Is it blasphemy--punishable by death--to question the applicability of certain 7th century doctrines to our own era? Both Christianity and Judaism have had their eras of reform. I would argue that the time has come for a Muslim Reformation."

Although Ali certainly knows a lot more about Islam than I do, I would respond by saying that the Christian reformation was made possible because of the corruption of the Roman Catholic Church that strayed from the Bible and perverted the Gospel. That's what led a Catholic Monk named Martin Luther to launch what became known as the Protestant Reformation in the 16th century.

In order for Islam to be reformed, the Koran would have to be rewritten. The verses that mandate the brutal treatment and subjugation of women to men would have to be revised or completely removed.

And that will never happen because Islam teaches that anyone who alters a verse or removes even a single word from the Koran must be put to death. So, Islam can't be reformed.

Rather than trying to change a religion that can't be reformed, I would suggest that women such as Ali who were brutalized by Islam come to Jesus Christ to find their true freedom they'll never experience in Islam.

Christ said this: "So, if the Son of God (Christ) sets you free, you will be free indeed." (John 8:36)

Indeed. Not only free of your sins by putting your faith in Christ's death on the cross for those sins, but free from the bondage of world religions that brutalize women in the name of their gods.