She's a Throughly Modern Muslim

leboheme

Citizen
Starting with the first comment: this person is just a bigot from another religion, all religions have their fair share of such myopic people.

The other comment about Islam being not new or old...is a little confusing....I am not sure what the writer wants to say. But I will say what I think is Islam.

I think the religion was completed 1400 years ago, which means that we were given the basic beliefs and practices, which always will remain the same. But

on the other hand Islam is also for all times and all places and in fact for all "jahans", this means that we have also been given some flexibility to adapt Islam according to our conditions.

And we do that through "Ijtehad", it is a shame that generally ijtehad is not an institution considered and supported by all Muslim sects.

Allam Iqbal also recognized this when he said that ijthed is the "moving principle" of Islam. So though there is no new Islam but we still can have some changes in areas we are allowed to as Muslims.
 

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