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Mansour al-Nogaidan on WashingtonPost.com gives his view that Islam needs a Reformation after his “… long and painful spiritual journey.” and believes this reformation is critical to Islam’s future.

Mansour gives details of his involvement with hard-line Salafi Muslims and later at age 26 realised many of his Muslim role models were hypocrites and credits two books he read at the time with helping him realise that he should question and criticize his religious leaders pragmatically.

These views were not universally appreciated and resulted in him being banned from writing, losing most of his friends, being fired and ultimately having a fatwa posted from the mufti of Saudi Arabia claiming he was an infidel and should be killed.

Read about it here.