Re: Liberal Islam
Humanity is essentially a social trait, so materialism is bound to have some direct or indirect links with it. I would again want to go back to my point as to how one describes materialism. The concept of a functional society may not complete without having to deal with materialism. Materialism would generally mean anti-religion because it cuts through spirituality, but then we would need to accept that Islam lays its focus entirely on spirituality and disregards basic natural frailties of a human being that drag it into materialism. If we go by this explanation, then the next question would be if Islam is incompatible with natural instincts of a human being? This won’t be true.
BTW, I guess we have come a bit away from OP’s question 