Spencer’s decisive rejection of Islamic reform

A symposium at FrontPage Magazine discusses an effort to create a new Koran with the violence removed. Robert Spencer, who participated in the symposium, rousingly rejects the notion that large numbers of Muslims would ever accept such a revised Koran. He writes:

Many strange things have happened in history and I would never say that Islamic reform is absolutely impossible, but Westerners are extraordinarily foolish when they harbor any hopes of it actually happening on a large scale. We need instead to focus on efforts to defend ourselves both militarily and culturally from the jihadist challenge, and to continue to call the bluffs of pseudo-reformers who intend ultimately only to deceive Western non-Muslims—many of whom are quite anxious to be deceived.

That we need to defend ourselves from the Muslims, not try to change the Muslims into something like ourselves, has of course been the central focus of my own writings on the subject.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at April 18, 2008 11:29 AM | Send