[constanyiskancho]

Yes, but who makes these determinations?

I don't want to say things that are offensive, but a faith not questioned and wrestled with is not much of a faith.

The islam that is practiced today was formed in its entirety over generations of wrestling with these questions... but it appears to me that islamic thought decided to stop developing. When I read of early islamic thinkers... I marvel at their creativity and free thinking. Now Islam tends to be very reactionary... and islamic society lags behind the rest of the world... a world that it used to lead.

Polymaths, astrologist, avicenna, averroes... this is the Islam I am interested in. The islamic world of today... I can't imagine this intellectual vigor in the current ummah.