Time for an Australian Koran. The (Ned) Kelly Koran, or the "Ned" for short
The disempowerment of the Christian Clergy began in England in 1604 with the commissioning of the St. James Bible. The Roman Catholic church clung on to using Latin until 1965.
Some say that Islam is a religion of peace. In Australia in 2013 there was an Inquiry into Migration and Multiculturalism by the Parliamentary Joint Standing Committee on Migration, Report March 2013. Whole parts of it address or refer to Islam.
There were substantial submissions for a dual Australian system where Sharia takes priority:
The Australian Federation of Islamic Councils (AFIC) advised that, ... Islam advocates for legal pluralism ... as long as they do not contravene the principles of Shari’ah.
Bluestar’s Dr Mehmet Ozalp, Director, Centre for Islamic Studies and Civilization, confirmed this as a key principle for scholars to take into account when adjudicating on custom for Muslims living in the western world.
There were ...demands for any accommodation of Islamic cultural practices ... be firmly resisted, as this promotes segregation not integration
Like all religions Islam is here to stay. Although many of its various proponents assert theirs is the correct version the conclusion that is inescapable is that it is already diverse. Why not an Australian peacful version?
In Australia Hezb ut–Tahrir and conservative Imams, who belong to a 10- 25% very large minority, (This amounts to somewhere between 5000 and 120,000 people) are promoting the radical version which involves Jihad and totalitarian Sharia. These people will not be satisfied until Totalitarian Shari Law Prevails.
We must disempower them.
There were more hopefull submissions made to the Senate inquiry arising from which I suggest that:
If it is the case that the overwhelming majority of Muslims in Australia do not support the radicals in this then that is the branch of Islam we need to develop.
If it is the case that Islam is [not] a fixed and fundamentalist faith, [and is not] impervious to change and [is not] unwilling to adapt to Australian society.
If it is true that ... in the Koran. These laws... are not fixed. Instead they take into account the circumstances existing at a given time or in a given place. [such as Australia]
Then that is what we must work on.
One way to work on this would be to develop an Australian 2015 Macquarie Koran.
Such a version would provide a text that could actually support the assertion that Islam is peaceful.
I would want it to be an allegorical 21st Century interpretation that did not require or support the killing of all Jews, the throwing of gays to their deaths, marriage of children, Female GM, boyhood matryrs, conversion, submission, or death of Kuffirs and so on.
If what some Islamic apologists are saying is true then such a Koranic version could be produced. In Australian English. It could be promoted as the preferred version in Australian Mosques and the use of the foreign language of Arabic stopped.
Maybe then we may see a reformation of Islam.