Jordan Peterson acknowledges the importance of liberalizing tendencies within religious traditions, including Islam, to avoid the dangers of ideological capture.

“the conflict between islam and the jewish and the christian worlds is a theological and political problem as well as a psychological problem”

Mustafa Akyol advocates for Islamic liberalism and a return to reason, freedom, and tolerance within the Islamic world.

“in the past few centuries past two centuries in the late 19th century a tradition broadly called islamic modernism which i you know hope to represent and i'm trying to advance also said well there are messages in the quran that our classical scholars maybe didn't fully get”