education is a big part of the solution.

Submitted by the Grand Infidel of Kaffiristan (Australia), Jan 13, 2009 at 00:08

Jope Sixpack writes:

"....Many of the 'authentic' laws of Islam need to be either re-interpreted or ignored. Such as the penalty for leaving Islam is death, and stoning a woman to death who was convicted of adultery, and the moral obligation to kill 'occupiers' of Muslim land, and the payment of Tribute."

Good idea - except that any re-interpretation of what is now taken as the obvious meaning of the Koran etc is automatically cast as a fatwah worthy 'heresy' by the various learned mullahs and imams and other funny-hat wearing characters..

The real solution is education - of Muslims - by any means whatsoever - including the opinions of the rapidly growing cohort of ex-Muslims such as this well-known case

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,402483,00.html

Note: Opinions expressed in comments are those of the authors alone and not necessarily those of Daniel Pipes. Original writing only, please. Comments are screened and in some cases edited before posting. Reasoned disagreement is welcome but not comments that are scurrilous, off-topic, commercial, disparaging religions, or otherwise inappropriate. For complete regulations, see the "Guidelines for Reader Comments".