like, the problem isn't that we're mystical, superstitious, have varied cultures, or irrational! own that shit, fellow Muslims.
the problem has always been ignorance, bigotry and cruelty. let's focus on that, why not?
the spec is austere because it's permissive, not because it demands you root out deviation or variation! already the Qur'an says why God makes the diversity of peoples so that you can know them.
revel in that diversity can or not??
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... who, incidentally, reminds us that interpretation plays a part in determining religious opinion, and that bias exists, all the time.
But tell that to the people who have, collectively, spent 150 years purging the religion of its “impure” elements, who then forget their own biases and positions, assuming them as defaults.