Quote from trefoil:
Everything a_person observed applies to Christians, which, to be fair, he noted.
Sufism is an avowedly liberal version of Islam, by the way, so your statement is false. Of course they aren't considered Islamic by the more conservative folks; among other examples of this, Iran considered an outright ban on Sufism.
After all, the people who gave a_person his talking points that are needed to pin Christian against Muslims hid the fact from him that throughout the history of Islam, there were many Muslim theologival schools that controdict his frudelent claims.
Mu'tazilah
Doctrines
The Mu'tazilite school of theology emerged out of the question raised by the Kharijites whether works are integral to faith or independent of faith. On the question of the relationship between faith and works, the Mu'tazilites adopted the position that someone who commits a grave sin without repenting occupies a middle state between being a Muslim and not being a Muslim.
A second doctrine concerned the nature of God. God is pure Essence and, therefore, without eternal attributes such as hands. Passages in the Qur'an that ascribe human or physical properties to God are to be regarded as metaphorical rather than literal.
The Mu'tazilites also argued that the Qur'an was
created and not eternal. The basis of this doctrine was the claim that the eternal coexistence of the Qur'an beside Allah gave the impression of another god beside Allah.
Human acts are free and, therefore, people are entirely responsible for their decisions and actions. Divine predestination is incompatible with God's justice and human responsibility.
God, however, must of necessity act justly; it follows from this that the promises of reward that God has made in the Qur'an to righteous people and the punishments he had issued to evildoers must be carried out by him on the day of judgement.
Mu'tazilites are generally seen as responsible for the incorporation of Greek philosophical thought into Islamic theology. This is particularly apparent in their belief that knowledge of God can be acquired through reason as well as revelation.
http://philtar.ucsm.ac.uk/encyclopedia/islam/sunni/mutaz.html
In two of their Belief systems, the Mu'tazelah controdicted and opposed the most charished principals of Islam.
Go figure!!!
