Guardian: religious reform and iconoclasm

More comment on the Rushdie reform call, this time from Giles Fraser, “vicar of Putney and a lecturer in philosophy at Wadham College, Oxford”, in the Guardian. It brings in the issue of the Saudi vandalism of the vestiges of the Salaf under the guise of “anti-idolatry”, and the well-known extremes which resulted from the Lutheran reform of Christianity.

The idolatry of holy books: The demand for a reformed Islam fails to take into account what the Christian Reformation really meant