Islamic reformation

TIME Magazine: Viewpoint This article [cited on MWU blog] perhspa gives some indication of how things are in the Muslim community: that there is a real push for reformation using the resources of Islam to crive forward a 'progressive' form of the religion. Perhaps in observing, we Christians should remember the lessons of Protestant reformation in the West: it took arguabley 200 years to get off the ground, it took the social conditions of humanism and new economic forms and technological invention to lend it critical mass and then it took several hundred years for some of the critical propositions to be more widely accepted [cf Vatican 2 in the early 60's]. Perhaps the speed could be greater in this case, assuming that this is what we may be seeing?