Golden you are the perfect example of what is wrong with contemporary Islam. You cannot engage rationally with the teachings of Islam, you cannot separate the good from the bad and you want to win your arguments not by reasoning but raising your voice the loudest. To you everything in Islam is by definition perfect, anyone who tries to reform Islam is by definition an enemy.
Well I have news for you. As great & divine as the Prophet may have been, his teachings have since been interpreted and passed down my mortal men. Mortal men are imperfect and it is dangerous to pretend otherwise. Islam, as it is practiced, would be a better gentler religion if it would be open to questioning and debate.
Mind you I do not believe that it is Islam itself that is the problem. Go back a thousand odd years and it was the west that was uncivilised, violent and communal and it were Arabs who were enlightened, rational and knowledge loving. In fact, that so much of the works of the Greek Civilisation has survived, in spite of persecution from the Roman Catholic Church is largely due to the enlightened protection of the Muslims of that time.
But today, it is the interpretation of Islam that has become the problem; the interpretation is rigid, inhumane, bigoted and nihilistic.
If you love Islam, think more about how can you make it a gentler, more forgiving religion rather than think about how can you make the world more Islamic.
