Ibn Warraq via Samizdata:
1. What is a Reformation? Defined from the UDHR 1948 perspective
Since there is no Pope or even, in principle, an organized clergy in Islam, how would we ever know if an Islamic Reformation had taken place? One person’s reformation will be another person’s decadence. My perspective will be from The Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948, which many Muslims still do not accept—indeed several Muslim countries got together in 1981 and issued their own Universal Islamic Declaration of Human Rights, where individual freedoms are denied. Muslims were particularly horrified by Article 18 of the UN Declaration which guarantees the right for anyone to change her or his religion.
Islam is a psychological prison. That's why Muslims were horrified. If people were truly free to leave, then the hollow religion would quickly fall apart. That's also why any criticism of Islam, or its decrepit prophet, is met with harsh punishments.
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