Dr. Jasser, Keith Ellison and Reforming Islam
Reader comment on item: Jasser Challenges Congressman on Reform's Value

Submitted by Abdul, Oct 4, 2009 17:18

Dr. Jasser is doing excellent work by publicly attacking "political Islam" including organizations like CAIR, and the imams. However, Jasser is NOT a reformer of Islam, let alone one of the leading reformers. First, he almost never speaks to Moslems. He speaks almost exclusively to conservative non-Moslems. Second, he has no qualifications as an Islamic scholar to speak about reform in Islam. Even lay Moslems do not listen to him. Religious Moslems, like Keith Ellison, have only contempt for Dr. Jasser.

We should support Dr. Jasser for exposing the extemist Islamism of the imams and of the Moslem advocacy organizations like CAIR, but we should not get up any hopes whatsoever that Dr. Jasser is either qualified or capable of stimulating reform in Islam. He will not even criticize the Koran or Muhammad which is where the problem with Islam lies.

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