The Druze Unitarian faith, which is currently being defamed by extremist zealots and advocates of terrorism,
was a reformist attempt in Islam that emerged in Cairo under the patronage of the Fatimid Caliph, Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, in 1017 AD. It focused on moral values, the prohibition of murder, violence, and enslavement, and the allowance of freedom of belief..
(See the book by Dr. Abdel Moneim Majid, 'Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, The Caliph Slandered')
Academic researcher Dr. Salim Hassan Hashi says in his book "Druze of Beirut, p. 40" that the Unitarian Druze creed focused on seven virtuous traits, which are:
Truthfulness, chastity, trustworthiness, contentment, love, meekness, and wisdom.
And it prohibited: lying, adultery (including enslavement), theft (including looting and spoils of war), evil, hatred, envy, and gossip.
Great thinkers have praised the moral values of the Druze, including the eminent Dr. Van Dyck, a professor residing at the American University of Beirut about a hundred years ago, who said: "I lived among them for fifty years and never heard an offensive word from any of them; they are loyal, truthful, and sincere." The historian Mustafa Ghaleb pointed to this meaning by saying: "Religion for them is light and guidance that illuminates the darkness of souls just as the sun illuminates the world in the middle of the day, and the measure of every person is their deeds. Thus, their religion truly forbids—not just in words—obscenity and wrongdoing..".
That reformist attempt was thwarted by the assassination of Caliph Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah in 1021 AD...
As for today, the Islamic nation, with its mental rigidity, produces terrorists at the behest of international intelligence agencies in the West and the East,
while the world around it develops. Throughout its history, proponents of reason in Islam have been persecuted, their books burned, and they have been declared apostates (takfir), including the Mu'tazila, the Brethren of Purity (Ikhwan al-Safa), Ibn Rushd, Al-Ma'arri, Ibn Sina, and those like them,
and in the modern era, Abd al-Rahman al-Kawakibi emerged, who was poisoned in Egypt in 1902 through a plot by Sultan Abdul Hamid II...
And the nation did not hear the calls of reformers, including Maruf al-Rusafi, Taha Hussein, Muhammad Said al-Ashmawy, Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd, Farag Foda, Abdelrahman Munif, Nizar Qabbani, Nasser al-Said, Abdullah al-Qasimi, Mohammed Arkoun, Muhammad Shahrour, Mohammad Habash, Firas al-Sawah, Khazal al-Majidi, and those like them...
Is there no nation that understands!!!.
Ibrahim Al-Akil, Research in Society and History