The new islamic enlightenment starts in Tampa.

Because it will be on CNN I am going to cover it from head to toe. Imma be like a burqa on it (except a transparent one so you can see into it, thus not really a burqa at all, but if it was a burqa that would be a sexy one).

This is the first reaction from a Muslim organization I've gotten. It comes to us from Muslims for Progressive Values (note, they are not saying they are progressive Muslims, but identifying with progressive politics). It is from Ani Zonneveld:

I wouldn't touch this conference with a ten foot pole. I'm not interested in being in the same room with ex-Muslims claiming to 'reform' Islam as I am interested in being in the same room with a bunch of fascists claiming that their Islam is the only way. In both cases, neither group are open minded, distort the Quran either to vilify Islam or to vilify others. 

There you have it.

By the way, if anyone's keeping track, the previous Islamic Reformation came out of Morgantown, West Virginia.

A reformation and an enlightenment, within three years!!! Oh damn, we've even had an Islamic Renaissance. A Muslim Martin Luther. A thirty years war. Hey, we forgot the counter-reformation!

Shit, Islam moves fast. Soon we'll be at postmodernism, and then at the Bush-ean neo-conservative stage, which mean back to tyranny, and thus we'll be full circle in less than five years. I know Ibn Khaldun said history was cyclical, but I had no idea it spun like this.

That being said, I'm still covering the conference.