illusion8
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That is a perfect example of not knowing what you're talking about. Crucial axioms in Islam that are not up for debate are few. The bulk, and I mean a number approaching 100%, has always been up for debate, especially in fiqh and sharii3ah. In the previous few centuries, we're run out of scholars who could take the debates forward, and people like you and me who don't know their rihgt foot from their left in religion, have assumed the right of parley.
They are never meant to. Only a few of them learn even a subset of the sciences that are prerequired.
I am talking about the conflict that arises due to change in how one views Islam, is Islam open for interpretation with modern laws? the bulk of the debate circles inside the fixed parameters of Islam and the enforcement of it on Muslim masses. The tides of change which Irfan is / was talking about is what's bringing in the conflicts. I agree that many scholars of Islam are seen arguing about the man made laws or fatwas within Islam - but then those set of rules does not leave the confines of the religion which has a predating fixed set of fundamentals that override all other discussions or arguments. The debates are on the interpretations of the set of fundamentals.
You are right, I am not a religious person and I usually do not get into any religious discussions much less about Islam of which I hardly know much and have an outsiders perspective.
What I see though is that there is considerable opposition to the changes that some states have adopted and there is a considerable push on these states to go back to their routes - which is one of the cause of conflict within the mulsim world.
The madrassah example was cited by me, because the poster was arguing that people read the Quran but are unable to interpret it correctly. Most of the extremists we see have madrassah backgrounds - and, I am surely astonished that even after spending 12 - 15 years reading the Quran, they still wrongly interpret it.