Muslim Reform Movement decries radical Islam, calls for equality
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It takes courage to stand up publicly to radical Islam, even if you’re Muslim. Maybe especially if you’re Muslim.
Ask Asra Nomani. On Friday she and a dozen of her fellow Muslims went to the Islamic Center of Washington, D.C., and posted a declaration on the door denouncing violent jihad, rejecting Islamic statism and opposing the “ideology of violent Islamic extremism.”
The declaration announced the formation of the Muslim Reform Movement, an international organization aimed at countering the beliefs of Middle East terrorist groups like Islamic State in what the document describes as a “battle for the soul of Islam.”
Was Ms. Nomani nervous? No doubt. But the recent bloodshed in Paris and San Bernardino, California, spurred by radical Islam has convinced her the Muslim community needs to confront frankly the connection between terrorism and religion, not deny that it exists.
“Ultimately, the reason why we, as Muslims, stood on Friday and went to the mosque and took the risks on our own lives, is because we’ve had enough,” Ms. Nomani said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “I think the world has had enough.”
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The Muslim Reform Movement’s declaration calls for equal rights for women, an end to institutionalized Shariah law, a separation between “mosque and state” and an end to bigotry based on a list of traits, including “sexual orientation and gender expression.”
“We stand for a respectful, merciful and inclusive interpretation of Islam,” the declaration says. “We are in a battle for the soul of Islam, and an Islamic renewal must defeat the ideology of Islamism, or politicized Islam, which seeks to create Islamic states, as well as an Islamic caliphate.”[/quote]
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Islam needs its own "Reformation" 
If it's risking your life to go to a mosque with a petition. What does that say about the mosque?
