>For some time now I have thought that Islam is beginning to - or needs to - go through a reformation, much like the schism between Catholics and Protestants. Apparently I am not alone:
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http://houstonchronicle.com/disp/story.mpl/religion/3499523.html>
>It took the Christians centuries to decide that theirs was not a faith of coercion and intolerance. Some of them still haven't got it. Hopefully it won't take the Muslims the same length of time.
You may be aware that there is a major division in Islam (Shia and Sunna), but according to my understanding, this schism isn't related to any effort at reformation, but rather, it originated with the question, who was to be the successor of Muhammad.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)
