![]() ![]() THE TROUBLE WITH ISLAM TODAY is a clarion call for a fatwa-free future. ![]() ![]() In that spirit, Irshad Manji travels throughout the world with her challenge for both Muslims and non-Muslims: dare to ask questions - out loud. Her vision revives Islam's lost tradition of independent thought. The hidden underbelly of Islam - Operation Ijtihad - In praise of honesty - Thank God for the West - Recommended readings - Acknowledgments A Muslim woman takes issue with the contradictions of mainstream Islam and with such issues as anti-Semitism, Islamic imperialism, and the attitude toward women and looks at the essential reforms. In blunt, provocative and deeply personal terms, she unearths the troubling cornerstones of Islam as it's widely practised: tribal insularity, deep-seated anti-semitism and an uncritical acceptance of the Koran as the final, and therfore superior, manifesto of God.īut THE TROUBLE WITH ISLAM TODAY goes deeper, offering a practical vision of an Islamic reformation that empowers women, promotes respect for religious minorities and fosters a competition of ideas. 'It simply means I refuse to join an army of automatons in the name of Allah.' These automatons, Manji argues, include many so-called moderate Muslims in the West. ![]() 'That doesn't mean I refuse to be a Muslim,' she writes. Journalist, iconoclast and rebel Irshad Manji calls herself a Muslim Refusenik. A dramatic call for reformation and tolerance in the islamic world ![]()
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