What would a reformed Islam look like?

The sometimes angry Underground Logician is a strange bird: A former Baptist pastor turned Catholic philosopher. (Interestingly, I've noticed that Spirit-filled protestants don't seem to turn to Roman Catholicism as those of other, more traditional denominations.)

Anyway, it's good to read what ol' Underground has to say about the recent "the Pope said Islam is irrational" debate. He compares the reform of the Church many centuries ago to a true Islamic reform:

A reform of Islam that brings Muslims back to the root of its teachings as in Church reform would look much like the radical Islamic movements promoting terror. Islam, by nature has never been a peaceful religion per se, though its adherents can be. As a religion, it spread mainly by tribal and territorial conquest, coercsion with the threat of taxation, and acts of violence and oppression. Violence is in the warp and woof of this religion. Any forced taxation or coercive proselytizing by Christians was and is an abheration, not the essence of Christianity. This is why the Byzantine emperor quoted by Benedict XVI said what he said.