A critical analysis of the Modernists and the Hadeeth ... - Islam House

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Presently (2008), the Progressive movement is in complete disarray
and its main organization in the US has lost over 90% of its board
members. It has lost support of most of the people that it claims to
represent, primarily because the 'progressives' have nothing to offer
the people beyond expressing disdain and aversion for the Islamic
sharee'ah. The Muslims find the 'progressives' on the other side when
their interests are discussed.
For example, when Allah's Messenger � was unjustly
ridiculed by the Danish cartoonists, the progressives were found
justifying them and blaming Muslim reaction. When Muslims in
Canada sought to refer to Islamic law to solve marital and inheritance
disputes, the progressives strongly opposed it blaming the sharee'ah
to be 'unfair to women'.
Initially the Progressives did find common ground with
extremist soofis, raafidah, ismailis and other groups that share the
'progressives' disdain for the Islamic sharee'ah, and who too base
their religion upon feelings rather than the text - but later relations
soured between them over political differences and group rivalry.
The figureheads of the 'progressives' fiercely compete with
each other in issuing anti-Islamic statements, and often accuse each
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