Refuting Islam

🗣 Top 10 Reformer Quotes Muslims Won’t Touch– Part 1

Their own voices. Their own words. Their own death sentences.

📘 Introduction

Whenever Muslims say “Islam just needs reform,” ask them:

“Which reformer do you admire?
And do you agree with what they actually said?”

They won’t answer.

Why?

Because the real reformers — the ones who challenged Islamic doctrine — were called:

Heretics
Apostates
Enemies of Islam

And their words?
Untouchable.
Too honest. Too dangerous. Too close to the truth.

This post presents 10 quotes from major Islamic reformers — quotes that no Dawah apologist will publicly support.

🥇 1. Mahmoud Mohammed Taha

Hanged in Sudan, 1985

“The Medinan verses were suitable for a specific time, but today we must return to the Meccan message of freedom, equality, and peace.”

🔻 Why They Won’t Touch It:
Because it implies the Quran contains obsolete, outdated laws — a direct challenge to Allah’s “perfect book.”

📌 Result: Branded an apostate. Executed by Islamic court.

🥈 2. Nasr Abu Zayd

Declared apostate, exiled from Egypt

“The Quran reflects its historical and cultural context — it is not a timeless codebook but a discourse.”

🔻 Why They Won’t Touch It:
Because it reduces the Quran from “eternal word of God” to a product of 7th-century Arabia.

📌 Result: Court forcibly annulled his marriage. Fled Egypt under death threats.

🥉 3. Sayyid Ahmad Khan

Ostracized by 19th-century Indian ulema

“We must accept only the parts of the Quran that align with reason and modern science.”

🔻 Why They Won’t Touch It:
Because it suggests parts of the Quran are irrational or unscientific — an unforgivable claim in orthodox Islam.

📌 Result: Labeled a heretic by Islamic scholars. His theological ideas never accepted.

🏅 4. Jamal al-Din al-Afghani

“Islam has become a barrier to progress. It must be reinterpreted or perish.”

🔻 Why They Won’t Touch It:
Because it admits what Islamic revivalists fear most — that Islam itself is the problem.

📌 Result: Banned from multiple Muslim regions. Died in exile.

🏅 5. Irshad Manji

“If Islam is truly just, then it must include gay people, women, and those who think differently.”

🔻 Why They Won’t Touch It:
Because Sharia law forbids homosexuality, limits women's rights, and punishes dissent.

📌 Result: Fatwas issued. Books banned. Globally shunned in Muslim-majority countries.

🏅 6. Ibn Rushd (Averroes)

“Truth does not contradict truth. If philosophy and revelation clash, the interpretation of revelation must be re-examined.”

🔻 Why They Won’t Touch It:
Because it prioritizes reason over revelation, undermining Quranic literalism.

📌 Result: Works banned. Career ended. Died in exile.

🏅 7. Mansur al-Hallaj

“Ana al-Haqq.” (I am the Truth / I am God.)

🔻 Why They Won’t Touch It:
Because it borders on divine identification, a violation of strict Tawhid (Islamic monotheism).

📌 Result: Imprisoned for years. Publicly executed for blasphemy.

🏅 8. Abdel Karim Soroush

Modern Iranian reformer

“The legitimacy of religious knowledge must be open to criticism and evolution, like any human knowledge.”

🔻 Why They Won’t Touch It:
Because it treats Islamic law as human, not divine — a direct hit to Sharia’s authority.

📌 Result: Attacked. Forced into exile. Banned from teaching in Iran.

🏅 9. Amina Wadud

“There is no Quranic verse that prohibits a woman from leading mixed-gender prayer.”

🔻 Why They Won’t Touch It:
Because she led one. And no mainstream mosque would ever let her do it again.

📌 Result: Declared deviant by clerics. Globally condemned across Islamic institutions.

🏅 10. Salman Rushdie

“The Quran contains contradictions, errors, and myth. It is not above critique.”

🔻 Why They Won’t Touch It:
Because even saying this out loud gets you a death sentence.

📌 Result: Fatwa by Iran’s Ayatollah. Attacked. Lived under 30 years of armed protection.

🚫 Why These Quotes Are Off-Limits

Reason	What It Threatens
Challenges Quran	Undermines “perfect” revelation
Exposes contradictions	Triggers Surah 4:82 collapse
Prioritizes reason	Threatens Hadith, fiqh, tafsir
Promotes equality	Violates Sharia gender/caste laws
Rejects violence	Denies core verses like 9:5 and 8:12
Personal conscience	Violates the demand for submission

📌 That’s why reformers are never quoted by Dawah apologists.
Only sanitized myths. Never their real words.

✅ Final Word

Ask any Muslim who claims “Islam just needs reform”:

“Okay. Which reformer do you follow? And do you agree with what they actually said?”

Then show them one of these quotes.

They’ll either:

Go silent,
Disavow the reformer, or
Admit they don’t believe in reform — just image control.

Reform is the mask.
These quotes rip it off.