Careful.
They'll start accusing you of being my alt at the rate you're developing.
Of course, once you begin to read a Qu'ran and puzzle over its implications as the centerpiece of an entire culture.... you'll realize why it is that Islam can't be reformed through anything but a complete destruction of it as a religion.
This is largely because people in the West do not actually have a religious belief - or even much of a spiritual belief. We believe a religion is kind of like a social club you affiliate with and that we're all going to die and just kind of sort it out afterward if there's an afterlife. Sure, we all like to believe we're going to be pleasing the right god... but it's just kind of something we do. It has no real meaning or impact beyond a fraternity.
This isn't the way the Muslim parts of the world think.
There is a 'religious awakening,' of sorts, in the West. People can read in Isaiah the prophecies regarding Israel. The fact that Isaiah predicted the downfall of Israel and also the re-forging of an Israel in disbelief as it would be attacked by nations around it... it's peculiar to read. Combined with the prophecies in Revelations, it is very easy to understand why a number of people (including myself, to some degree) are beginning to take religion, or at least the scriptures that sit at the center of many religions, far more seriously.
Consider, for a moment, that you are a person who has either been raised upon the belief that scripture is reality - or have come to this conclusion on your own. Then read something like the Qu'ran, and read it as if it is real - and what it means for people who believe it is real.
This is why Islam can't be reformed and still exist. A man was recently arrested for suggesting that a 20th century Muslim cleric was greater than Muhammad and angry crowds gathered in an attempt to kill him in the prison he was held. It, literally, can't reform as it is built around the idea that it -is- as reformed as a religion can be, coming straight from God through a prophet with the intention to set the record straight about who the true believers are.
And if people object to the notion that conquest is necessary... well... God told them to... so who is any other human being to say otherwise? No amount of teaching of western values can touch the fact that these people believe it is God's decree that this is the way they are to behave - that these are the things God's people should do. This is how they should treat those who deny their teachings, etc.
