Zafer Senocak on Islam's hermeneutic crisis

The Turkish-born German author, Zafer Senocak, contends that Muslim scholars take a purely scholastic approach to the Koran. "In all Islam there are no Muslims who take a critical approach to the Koran. It's obvious that without adopting a critical approach to the text of the Koran, Muslims won't be able to advance in modern societies. ... Their failure to address the challenges of modern life is having a pathological as well as a social effect - particularly for men, who are now being forced to step down from their pedestal. It also reinforces the image that Muslims are incapable of integration and even dangerous, which is exploited by those who have problems with anything foreign. The hermeneutic crisis of Muslims is creating a crisis within the open society and thwarting the efforts of multiculturalism, as if such a thing as cultural homogeneity still existed in our world. Mosques are suddenly springing up in German cities and the muezzins' calls to prayer are appearing in the same contexts as forced marriages and honour killings."

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