Are We Helping Create A New Sect In Islam By Calling People Quranists?
Just by changing words, the underlying act of categorization doesn’t change. Instead of saying Quranists we can say “those people who overwhelmingly rely on Quran” as per your suggestion, however, all that achieves is using more words to express the same idea. Materially, there’s no difference between the two. It is the intent of the categorization that makes the difference. If the categorization is done in order to communicate or even object to an ideology then there’s no harm. However, if the same categorization is done to create a sense of otherness then it’s definitely objectionable. Also if the group of people referred to object on a certain name, or that name is derogatory in any manner, then of course it should not be used even to communicate an ideology.