Whatever the open letter's merits in confronting the "caliph" of ISIS, it does not come close to what is needed in reforming Islam. In a 2014 open letter to Dr. Ibrahim Awwad Al-Badri, alias "Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi," leader of the ISIS "caliphate," over 176 (and growing) Muslim (and some Western) jurists, scholars, professors, and imams have endorsed their grievances and disagreements with the caliph. Not very long, it contains quotations from the Quran, four rightly guided caliphs, and classical legal scholars. Here's an analysis. In the section "legal theory and Quran exegesis," the scholars, through a committee, write: With regards to Qur'anic exegesis, and the understanding of Hadith, and issue in legal theory in general, the methodology set forth by God in the Qur'an and the Prophet in the Hadith is as follows: to consider everything that has been revealed relating to a particular question in its entirety,...(Read Full Article)