Islam and Christianity are different if you expect some sort of reformation your wrong.
Islam had more reformations than Christianity.
Did you know that Rennaissance became the biggest reformation point of Christianity when Europeans made major reforms in Christianity and worked towards 'not going word by word of the book'?
Also by reforms, I don't mean who was the latest in the lines of your religions.
I am talking about weeding out war and forceful related things from your texts including forced proselytization, women's status as half that of a man, pressure to convert, subjugate or kill or even eliminate altogether the concepts which eliminate the thought of forceful response which have caused so much friction between Islam and other communities around the world.
Let's be honest; there were verses which advocate violence; otherwise no one can twist the meaning of
it in over 50 totally unrelated countries around the world with the same intent. Ranging from jihadis in Philippines, to India, to Uzbekistan, to Somalia, to Nigeria, to ISIS in Syria and Iraq; look at the difference of the societies in which Muslims tend to get brainwashed easily.
Young, smart people who have bright future and potential are dragged into violence and therefore ruin their own families and the families of others.
This is something inherently problematic and your religious leaders need to look into seeing how it can be reformed.
If they all have organisations that advocate force and use of violence using a religious text at the same time, then there is something wrong in certain verses which are not relevant according to today's modern times; they may have been relevant in 7th century AD when Islam was expanding its territory in what's today Saudi Arabia.
I was told a bit about a scholar Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, who tried to bring some reforms to Islam but was unsuccessful and his followers were declared non-Muslims (I think they are called Ahmadis).
Maybe you could help me understand the difference. And without getting sentimental please.
This is not a troll discussion; it is a frank, honest discussion both ways.
A lot of the religions in the world barely went through any reforms as they follow the same thing aka Paganism, Buddhism and Hinduism.
Hardly. This only reflects your unawareness in our two philosophies.
Buddhism and Hinduism were one of the first major faiths which underwent reforms.
There have been numerous reforms in Buddhism since Pala times and every time the Buddhist community becomes too material or ceremonial, there are corrections made in all the three four main branches of Buddhist school of thought. Reforms have taken place more than once whether it is in my sect the Vajrayana/Mahayana or the Hinayana and Theravada schools of thought.
From transitioning of royalty of Thailand, to the relegation of power and principles to the order of monks in Mahayana/Vajrayana sects; thinks have always moved fluidly in Buddhism.
Among the Hindus, you need to read on the works of Savitribai Phule, Raja Rammohan Roy, Swami Dayanand, Swami Vivekananda etc to start with and see the reforms they brought to change the Hindu society.
I can help you with sources if you want to really see what work happened and how it changed the way these two operate.
Reforms doesn't mean changing the tenets of the philosophy or spirituality.
It simply means to remove any social challenges faced by a community in a new era.