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[quote]enclosed is a response from another web site which in my opinion is the correct reflection of Muslims

Just wanted to add an observation. We Muslims wail for progress, talk about the glorious past of our ancestors. Wish there was a scholar that would work to that end, salvage our past and lead us in a new direction. We wait for messiahs, for Imams, for leaders.

But when we get some, we spend no time in ripping that person to pieces.

It's the same when people were waiting for leaders in the Age of Prophets, but as soon as a Prophet would reach them, they'd turn around and persecute them.

It's like we have made up our minds already on what Islam should be or should not be. We talk of women rights against a back drop of honor killings, foul hudood laws on rape, and wish they were changed, Yet when someone does aim at them, we critique those very scholars.

We want to return to pristine Islam, to the older scholars, but we refuse to believe the allowance of the Prophet on women leading prayers, we say to hell with Ibn Rushd who emphasized reason. We refuse to even talk on controversial issues, while at the same time emphasize Islam's tradition of dialogue.

We are mired with contradictions as a people.[/quote]

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