2:49PM
Female, Islamic Luthers?
Sunday, October 15, 2006 at 2:49PM This article from filmmaker Dan Hare, as I spent the weekend in Ohio playing golf with sons and other relatives.ARTICLE: Looking for Islam’s Luthers, by Nicholas Kristof, New York Times, October 15, 2006
Great piece by Kristof highlighting that women-leading-the-reformation thing that I like to harp on WRT Islam in North America.
Reader Comments (3)
Haven't read the Kristof piece, but in my version of the Islamic Reformation, Luther, the dude who's bent on purifying his own religious community, is played by Usama bin Laden. (With the Internet in the role of the printing press.) Maybe I'd cast the modern uppity Muslim woman as Elizabeth I.
Luther, Osama? No I dont think so. But, mentioning him is timely I'd say... since one of his major claims to fame is based on the peoples being able to actually understand the mass in their own toungue...and the Pope only this week signing into effect the re-activation of the mass in latin - a long dead language shakes me to the bones... the beginning of the "un-reformation"?
Luther? Maybe if you completely misinterpret what Luther did for Christianity. Early Protestants were ready, willing and eager to kill for their beliefs. Not exactly what we should be rooting for.
Nope. Islam isn't lacking for sectarianism. What it needs is to get around to the idea that religion and secular society can live together through tolerance and reason. Thus not Luther, but rather Weseley; and not through breaking away, but through changing the system from within.
And women, as many know, are particularly skillful in managing these kind of transformative acts.
So great concept, but horrible analogy.