I spent too long typing my big long reply so when I actually hit reply the link expired. So I'm just going to go with the highlights.

That's super annoying. I've had a lot of luck with Chrome on OS X where, if I get a deadlink after typing up a comment and submitting it, I hit Back and then hit the Reply button under the same comment I was replying to, and almost every time, the textbox appears and it's populated with what I had written. This has been the case for others, but some people have said that it doesn't work for them. YMMV

As for what reform Maajid Nawaz recommends, I'd point you to the book Islam and the Future of Tolerance. He didn't mention it in this article so me pointing to something outside of it is a little unfair. But I recommend it nonetheless because it's engrossing and thought-provoking, and also a very short read -- like a few hours. Some of the reforms that were offered were basically a dialogue that must take place within the faith-community of Islam. Famously, the phrase in the Bible "Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and unto God the things that are God's" is a phrase that's credited for Christianity's more-or-less peacable relationship with secular authority. But there is little to no separation between Church and State in a lot of Middle Eastern countries.

So the reform would not only be this discussion between Muslims, but also, from the outside, the support of those reformers. Which is decidedly not what's happening, when Salon et al. attack Maajid Nawaz and others as profiteers and opportunists. It's counterproductive. Especially when the Left that's attacking these reformers claim to have the very same goals -- a secular, peaceful Middle East.