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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Muslima][quote=Anonymous]As this discussion indicates, there are many Islams, depending on how you interpret Quranic verses, whether you take the Quran literally, and which (if any) hadith you think are authentic. Muslima has her Islam. However, it's not so easy to say "Islam says X about blasphemy and violence and those other people doing Y are bad Muslims." Those other people may think they are good Muslims.[/quote]

I do not have my own Islam. I didn't create my version of islam. There are different interpretations of certain verses, agreements on authenticity of hadiths but it is wrong to say that there is no way to say x version of Islam or Muslims are wrong.  There are accepted rules,  that learned scholars have agreed on. The interpretation of Islam that I follow,  is that accepted by the majority of Muslims in the world.  It is not the only interpretation but that doesn't mean all interpretations are right.  We can prove theologically how something is wrong or unIslamic. I have always been amazed by critics of Islam who attempt to prove to us that our religion requires us to be blood-thirsty killers. Have they ever considered what would happen if we believed them?[/quote]

There is lots of disagreement on interpretation. For example, you are a Sunni, but millions of Shiites disagree with you on key points. I don't believe you're Wahhabi, but are you saying they're "bad" Muslims where various articles of faith, like niqabs and sharia punishments, are concerned?

That's the thing about saying you need context to read the Quran-it's basically saying that my context is right and yours is wrong, ergo my interpretation is right and yours is wrong. The Shiites and Wahhabis have their own contexts. (As an aside, Islam is also supposed to be a religion where you [b]don't[/b] need a priest to interpret meaning or context for you.) Everybody thinks they're right, whether the disagreement is on veiling requirements or vanishing imams, and it's not for you to say they're necessarily straying from the "right" interpretation. That's also the thing about having no centralized authority: there are so many independent judges issuing conflicting interpretations on nearly every issue.

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