| | However, traditional Islam has been criticized for some time, due to it demanding strict submissiveness, especially of women, and its predisposition to being violent, suspicious and even attacking other faiths deemed a threat to Islam. Jihadism that is not the Abrahamic faith as Islam was originally designed to be, but instead is a corrupted faith that emphasizes a constant need for Jihad (literally meaning " "to exert utmost effort, to strive, struggle" but used by Jihadists as meaning "war") against people labelled as "infidels". The corruption of Islam by terrorists and totalitarian dictatorships like in Iran and the [[Taliban]] in Afghanistan have transformed Islam from being an Abrahamic faith to being an explicitly anti-Semitic faith of Jihadism that denies Islam's influences from Judaism and Christianity. Moderate and liberal Muslims have denounced the Jihadist terrorists and believe that mainstream Islam has become corrupted over the years that there needs to be an [[Islamic Reformation]] similar to that of the [[Protestant Reformation]].<ref>Michaelle Browers, Charles Kurzman. An Islamic Reformation? Lexington Books, 2004.</ref> | | However, traditional Islam has been criticized for some time, due to it demanding strict submissiveness, especially of women, and its predisposition to being violent, suspicious and even attacking other faiths deemed a threat to Islam. Jihadism that is not the Abrahamic faith as Islam was originally designed to be, but instead is a corrupted faith that emphasizes a constant need for Jihad (literally meaning " "to exert utmost effort, to strive, struggle" but used by Jihadists as meaning "war") against people labelled as "infidels". The corruption of Islam by terrorists and totalitarian dictatorships like in Iran and the [[Taliban]] in Afghanistan have transformed Islam from being an Abrahamic faith to being an explicitly anti-Semitic faith of Jihadism that denies Islam's influences from Judaism and Christianity. Moderate and liberal Muslims have denounced the Jihadist terrorists and believe that mainstream Islam has become corrupted over the years that there needs to be an [[Islamic Reformation]] similar to that of the [[Protestant Reformation]].<ref>Michaelle Browers, Charles Kurzman. An Islamic Reformation? Lexington Books, 2004.</ref> |