This is 1517, maybe
It’s a possibility. On All Saints’ Day, Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses to the door of the Wittenberg Cathedral. I contend that January 30 might be a date of similar import. When 8 million Arabs and Kurds voted in Iraq, a statement was made, not wholly dissimilar to Luther’s. An old doctrine was rejected, and a new one embraced.
One of the silliest statements in currency today is that Islam and democracy are imcompatible. So what? The Catholic Church said that the views of Copernicus and Galileo were unacceptable, but the Church got over it, though it took quite a while.
Religious history is full of accommodations to science, technology and politics, often by reinterpretation of founding documents to give them an allegorical or anagogical meaning.
Islam already has a big exegetical rigamarole going on about how to interpret conflicting passages of the Koran. Since the book is supposed to be infallible, the preferred interpretation is said to be the last version written by the Prophet, even when the context of the passage argues the opposite.
Reformations can’t be imposed from outside, which is why January 30 and not April 9 is liberation day in Iraq. But do not be surprised that radical changes in religious, aesthetic, scientific and political perspectives can occur, and swiftly. It has happened before.
