Islam 'in time of reformation'
By Ruth Gledhill

Islam today is “in the 15th century”, a senior Anglican clergyman said yesterday.

The Dean of Southwark, the Very Rev Colin Slee, said in a sermon at Cambridge University: “I believe that history will show we are witnessing a Muslim reformation.” As with Judaism and Christianity in the past, he said, the response to reformation was characterised by “a retreat into certainties — political, nationalistic, doctrinal and scriptural. It is fundamentalism.” He argued that reformations in Judaism and Christianity had taken place when those religions were 1,500 years of age. Islam was at a comparable stage and the world was “deeply uneasy”.

The dean also said that Christian fundamentalism was in partnership with “anti-intellectualism” and was exerting a “religious economic imperialism”. the rest