&gt; I&#x27;m not calling for aggressively imposing a structure change upon people,<p>Ok, than how do you propose to go about this? Telling the united Muslim population of the world they need to change their holy book is tantamount to telling the Roman Catholics to restructure their religion without the Pope. It won&#x27;t happen.<p>Putting conditions like that on the table is to redraw the lines in terms that the other party will find un-acceptable right from the get-go, and will show nothing but our ignorance about their personal relation with God. That&#x27;s not going to end well <i>if</i> there is a reaction at all.<p>&gt;  I&#x27;m calling for people who call themselves moderates or progressives to formally recognize their progressiveness by explicitly altering their holy text.<p>Even moderates and progressives are not going to change that text. They <i>will</i> happily ignore the pieces of the text they don&#x27;t personally agree with, but if you force them to re-write the text they just might switch the other way and become more literal about that interpretation because a very large chunk of their identity is under threat.