For the fundamental problem is that the majority of otherwise peaceful and law-abiding Muslims are unwilling to acknowledge, much less repudiate, the theological warrant for intolerance and violence embedded in their own religious texts (Qur'an and Hadith).

Five things that are recognized as inherently harmful in Islam and only when they are repudiated and nullified will a true Muslim Reformation have been achieved: 

1. Muhammad's semi-divine and infallible status along with the literalist reading of the Qur'an, particularly those parts that were revealed in Medina;

2. The investment in life after death instead of life before death;

3. Sharia, the body of legislation derived from the Qur'an,  the Hadith, and the rest of Islamic jurisprudence;

4. The practice of empowering individuals to enforce Islamic law by commanding right and forbidding wrong;

5. The imperative to wage jihad or holy war