Still invisible after decades of terror.

The excerpt below is welcome news.

The question that bothers me is why I've seen nothing of this until now. In the considerable reading I've done in the last few years about Islam, this is the first I've heard of this effort in Turkey. That doesn't mean DHS should declare an orange ignorance alert, truth be known, since my reading has still only been superficial, focused more on Muslim aggression around the world and the military, cultural, political, legal, and counterintelligence problems of having large resident Muslim communities in the West.^[1]

Still, I find it strange that this has been so invisible to me, a very interested American reader:

Islamic scholars in Turkey are currently working on modernizing Islam through re-evaluating and re-interpreting Hadith, the sayings of the Prophet Muhammad. Many of these scholars say parts of the Hadith have been falsely attributed to Muhammad and while they might have been applicable in the early Islamic period, they no longer apply today. The sayings include, but are not limited to, those regarding women’s role in society and Islam’s relationship with other religions.

According to Ismail Hakki Unal, head of the Hadith department at Ankara University's divinity school, many recorded sayings are in conflict with the Koran. Thus, since the Koran is the basic guide, anything contradictory should be re-evaluated, re-interpreted, and eventually, eliminated.^[2]

The United States Government is, of course, clueless so far as mounting any kind of an intellectual challenge to Islam is concerned.

Notes
^[1] These are communities populated by significant numbers of Muslims intent on destroying the West and replacing centuries of Western legal and political advances with some jerkwater substitute that isn't up to regulating a garden club let alone a village or nation. This is to be accomplished after a short period of "inter-faith dialog" and endless bitching about the need for equal treatment and "respect for differences." Following the wished-for Muslim success there will be no more need for dialog and respect for differences.
^[2] "Romancing the Koran in Indonesia." Jennie S. Bev, Asia Sentinel, 3/20/08.