Original sentence: It is also accepted by many liberal Muslims that a woman may lead the state, and that women should not be segregated from men in society or in mosques, although the custom is for women to pray behind men.Liberal Muslims interpret the Qur'an and Hadith from their personal perspective rather than the medievalist traditional Muslim point of view.Liberals generally claim that they are returning to the principles of the early Muslim community, arguing that the Medievalists have diverged from true Islam through their focus on the literal word rather than the ethical intent of scripture.Most if not all liberal Muslims accept that a woman may lead group prayers, although this topic remains controversial
Edited sentence: As a result, many liberal Muslims accept that a woman may lead group prayers, and oppose the traditional gender segregation of mosques into male and female areas altogether.However, this topic remains controversial.In fact, liberal Muslims sometimes argue that the traditional schools of Islamic law are too sexually permissive in allowing men to have sex with their unmarried female slaves (which derived from the common pre-Islamic practice of concubinage).Liberal Muslims generally accept that a woman may lead the state, and oppose gender segregation in society in general.Liberal Muslims interpret the Qur'an and Hadith from their personal perspective rather than the traditional medievalist Muslim point of view.Liberals generally claim that they are returning to the principles of the early Muslim community, arguing that conservatives have diverged from true spirit of Islam by focusing on the literal word rather than the ethical intent of scripture.Many Muslims in the West who hold secular or progressive political views may still hold conservative beliefs about homosexuality as well as extra-marital sex in general.Slavery, which was tolerated in the Qur'an and by all traditional schools of Islamic law, is opposed by practically all modern-day Muslims; it is perhaps the one issue regarding which liberalism is already the mainstream Muslim opinion