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Islam in the Rear-View Mirror
by Salim Mansur
• September 29, 2014 at 5:00 am
Broadly
speaking, the struggle within Islam is between Muslims who embrace the values
of the modern world in terms of freedom, individual rights, gender equality
and democracy on the one side, and Muslims opposing these values and
insisting on a Sharia-based legal system on the other. Any Muslim who even
questions this version of Islam they refer to as a heretic or, worse, an
apostate to be killed.
For
Muslims who embrace modernity, Islam is a matter of personal belief, not a
political system.
A
reformed Islam -- greatly desired and sought after by swelling numbers of
Muslims -- cannot succeed without the support of non-Muslims.
A decade after operatives of al Qaeda attacked the United States, the
Arab and Muslim world was seized by popular uprisings. The so-called
"Arab Spring" erupted in Tunisia, swept into Libya and Egypt where
dictators of long standing were toppled and, as of this writing, the regime
of Bashar al-Assad in Syria appears doomed in a bloody stand-off against insurgents
who are steadily gaining ground.
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