I have posted a similar comment. However, I think it hopeless to expect the entire religion to change. There has to be a great schism, as happened to the Catholic religion (leading to the Protestant Reformation), lead by North American Muslim leaders. It may be that the European Muslims are still too enmeshed in their religion, reinforced by growing discrimination against them there, to hope that the break can come from Europe. The problem NA Muslim  secular leadership faces is that I believe almost all, if not all of their religious leaders, are from the Middle East and I am certain they would fight tooth and nail against any major reform as suggested.  You need not read Ali to find out the problem with the religion. Our own Canadian Muslim "heretic" (lesbian and liberal),  Irshad Manji, who wrote The Trouble with Islam, describes her education in a Madrasah in VANCOUVER, laden with anti western and anti semitic diatribes.