Now Playing:Iranian women Islam Reform: Don't Burn Quran, Repackage and Update it
Description: PLEASE READ: For anyone with any type of view on Islam this is an ABSOLUT MUST! In this video, Sheikh Ahmed Subhy Mansour, an Egyptian scholar, reformist and human rights activists, unfold the manifesto of Qur'an alone Muslims (AKA Quranists), and describes, through his life story, the barriers for a reformation in Islam that could accommodate it with modern western values. Please also read this - www.jihadwatch.org - to cool down enthusiasm about reform any time soon and to put things into perspective, but still, while daydreaming and wishful thinking might be hazardous, don't forget that hope is better than despair. In any case. Weather, like me, you are concerned with the rapid expansion of and deepening grip of radical and fundamental Islam which has become nothing less than mainstream Islam. Or like some "useful idiots" out there, you think Islam is a wonderful religion with a bad rap. This video sheds new light on the origins of the destructive and backwards forces that have taken hold of Islam ever since the days of Muhammad. Mainly targeting the Wahhabi stream which is the most strict and unforgiving form of Sunni Islam (widely practiced around the world backed by petro-dollars financing from Saudi Arabia), but also providing punishing blows to Shia Islam, and more specifically the Twelvers - ie the Shia sect promoted by Iran - one of the most dangerous forms of Islam out there today. The speaker, Sheikh Ahmed Subhy Mansour, is what is known as a Qur'an alone ...