The moment has to be circling closer and closer to actually happening when the general body of Islamic thought and feeling begins the energetic and strenuous counter offensive that takes ownership back from the zealots, the fanatics, and the bigots, who in their extraordinarily benighted way have made this religion a synonym for backwardness and brutality.

Is this reconstruction really going to happen? Are people going to transform for modernity, for sanity and for sheer safety, Islam's public image the rest of us currently dread?

Are there pockets of people, from the thinkers, from the writers, out of the quotidian believers, who are embarked on this redemptive journey? I've only seen one article so far that's courageously discussing the need to even do this  - note the needed, not the direct evidence it's actually happening. Everything else has been the usual arms in the air platitudes: 'it's not the real face of Islam...it's a religion of peace...generosity of spirit...hospitality...graciousness' and so on. We need to see that dimension. When?

The reformation has to happen. Can I expect to see a Martin Luther style event with a manifesto nailed figuratively to mosque doors that says we have to restore our name? This reformation is essential: morality, spirituality and public safety implore it.

If it only it was that easy, of course; there's something else to tackle. Why are so many damaged, insecure, anxious, overwrought individuals drawn to easy answer solutions. Well, it's obvious in the final words of the previous sentence - easy answer solutions. I have not come across any religion or belief systems that does not somewhere state explicitly or for inference that it's not your fault. You are not to blame, someone else is. Solidarity through a sense of victim hood then takes over. I've seen it everywhere, and it's particularly prevalent in Christianity and Islam. You are not responsible. You are done to. Again, as I look for Islam to recover it's centre, I look to people to have the courage to examine, discuss, understand and resolve personal issues through their own agency.

And yet again, if only it was that simple. It's not. The vulnerable, the afflicted, have to be coaxed, they have to be given the confidence, and the tools - I look to education, emotional intelligence especially, and to jobs here - that they can be the masters of their own destiny. Not someone else's.

It's got to happen. Just when?