Irshad Manji

thumb|Irshad Manji in 2007 Irshad Manji (born 1968) is a Canadian feminist Muslim, author, journalist, and activist. Quotes Islam was not always so close minded. During the 'Golden age' – between the 9th and 11th century – there existed a tradition of critical thinking in the Muslim world. Muslims need critical thinking - Irshad Manji August 18, 2004 (interview by Dirk Verhofstadt) In Islam's golden age, so much progress was made that it became the basis of the European Renaissance. We Muslims have to change ourselves, that's the main difference. We can't keep blaming America or Israel for our misery. Süddeutsche Zeitung May 16, 2007 It is time for those who love liberal democracy to join hands with Islam's reformists. Here is a clue to who's who: Moderate Muslims denounce violence committed in the name of Islam but insist that religion has nothing to do with it; reformist Muslims, by contrast, not only deplore Islamist violence but admit that our religion is used to incite it. Irshad Manji: Islam Needs Reformists, Not 'Moderates' The Wall Street Journal (7 May 2011) The Trouble with Islam Today (2005) Quotes from The Trouble with Islam Today: A Wake-Up Call for Honesty and Change (2004) Most Muslims treat the Quran as a document to imitate rather than interpret, suffocating our capacity to think for ourselves. Ch. 2: Seventy Virgins? I've read the scholarship that explains these verses 'in their context', and I think there's a fancy dance of evasion going on. p. 48 Our global responsibility now is not to determine who owns what identity, but to convey to future generations what we all owe each other. p. 203 About Two other women, authors Irshad Manji (The Trouble with Islam Today) and Asra Nomani (Standing Alone in Mecca), have thrown a more robust challenge to the Islamic establishment, but instead of being debated on the merits of their case, the two were unfairly dismissed as attention-seeking apologists for the West. Tarek Fatah, Chasing a Mirage (2008) External links Irshad Manji Category:1968 births Category:Living people Category:Immigrants to Canada Category:Islamic feminists Category:LGBT people Category:Muslims from Canada Category:Women authors from Uganda Category:Free speech activists Category:Liberal feminists Category:Women from Uganda Category:Women journalists from Canada