Religion, particularly Islam, doesn't need a 'reformation'. We've already tried that with Christianity, and we still have to argue about contraception and abortion and stem cells and homosexuals with 'Christians.' In every single major societal debate, you will invariably find that one side is arguing based on religious grounds - and they are always the wrong side from an objectively moral viewpoint.
Saying religion needs a reformation is like saying slavery needed a reformation. "It's not ALL of slavery that's evil and based on immorality and ignorance, we should just reform it so that it's more palatable to our modern sensibilities." Get real.
It is not the singling out of Islam, as I have said time and again. Any idea, if it is harmful, should not be allowed to persist.
The argument that "Christianity used to be the same" is a tired one, and it gets us nowhere. "Christians did the same things then that Muslims are doing now." That's a ridiculous argument because it justifies barbaric behavior. We don't live 'in past centuries.' We live now. And now, we know enough about the world and science and morality to discard ancient ignorance. We have secular rather than religious laws (excepting, of course, Muslim countries), and we shouldn't give Islam a pass because they didn't get the memo.
The information of every conceivable human endeavor since the dawn of history (the written word) is at our fingertips. It's my position that, given enough time, the information access bestowed upon us by modern technology will do away with these ancient myths; but we shouldn't just wait around in the meantime.
I will say it again: I am equally critical of other faiths and ideologies. To me, the Christian doctrine of vicarious redemption through human sacrifice is a wholly disgusting and immoral one; not to mention their ideas on compulsory love under pain of eternal torture, and theophagy, to name but a few.
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