They never really drop islam, jsut violate its principles

Which also leads some of them to want to repent in a typically islamic way

Either they become salafists and do nothing or they cause issues

Hard to say

In my city there's actually quite a number of salafists because Hamburg didn't want them to organize there

You see them walking around from time to time

In white robes with long beards

I've also been to an Ahmadiyya mosque back in my school days

It's not islam

Islam has a history of being able to hijack liberal-backed uprisings

Ahmadiyya?

Yeah it's a really minor sect of muslims which jsut ignore the qur'an when they don't like it

They had banners saying "Muhammad liberator of women"

Don't have issues with apostacy (I asked the Imam)

And they're banned from Mecca widely regarded as nonmuslims or apostates in islamic countries

How common are they?

Pretty rare

I wouldn't be surprised if liberal power tries to patronize them

They made up a chunk of the very earliest islamic presence in Germany

Unitarians and homosex """churches""" were pretty rare originally too

Sure but the christians always have a way out regarding interpretation and the bible not being literally the word of god

The muslims treat the qur'an as infallible

The literal word of god as delivered to Muahmmad by the archangel Gabriel

The bible is more equivalent to the hadiths which are just a compilation of stories etc. about the life of Muhammad since he's deemed the perfect man

However at least the hadiths are open to interpretation/questioning as they're not the literal word of god

A muslim might argue that the hadiths which mention Muhammad being a pedophile aren't authentic or whatever for example

But you can't do this with the qur'an

If the qur'an say to kill apostates (which it does) there's no arguing about it

Perhaps. Never forget that Protestantism- the source of most degenerate/withered Christianity- was founded on Sola Scriptura

If various powers could wear that down overtime, the same can theoretically be done with Islam

Well yes. It's birthed the most fundamentalist and liberal churches

And it actually is somewhat similiar in islam

Like moderate mosques are pretty much doing the same thign as Ahmadiyya by avoiding the uncomfortable Suras

Whereas Ahmadiyya is the extreme end of it

There isn't an authoritative head in islam outside the Ayatollah in Iran afaik

The Turkish sultan used to fill the role of caliph/head of sunni islam too

Hard to say how it'll turn out in the end

At least in Tunisia you can see that tourism has made a more liberal islam win elections over the muslim brotherhood

Yeah, could be interesting

It really comes down to what power is able to leverage it's international infrastructure quicker

I don't think so