seeing it as too deferential to the status quo and too openly inimical to reform. This is fair and understandable but perhaps not fully appreciative of my point. To say that a particular interpretation is not esteemed by the generality of religiously literate Muslims is not at all to deny its proponent the right to embrace or even promote it. It is simply to say that this alone is not enough to render it "normative Islam" with which the generality of Muslims should be identified or with which we may expect them to identify, any more than it would be appropriate to shoulder (or credit) the proponent of a novel rendering with a view of a coreligionist with which he or she disagrees.
-Sherman A. Jackson, Islam and the Problem of Black Suffering, p. 11-12
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