Nie Trink Wasser
2nd October 2003, 07:30 AM
pay attention to reaction concerning this book and read it when you can.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0312326998/qid=1065105428/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_1/104-5532603-5170308?v=glance&s=books&n=507846
The work that has provoked these threats calls for a thorough reform of Islam in order to bring it into the modern world. And, as vexing as the message is for Islamic fundamentalists, even more horrifying for them is the fact that the Muslim author is a lesbian.
Toronto journalist Irshad Manji, 34, writes in her book, The Trouble With Islam: A Wake-up Call for Honesty and Change, that Muslims need to look at themselves and take responsibility for what ails them and their religion rather than continue to blame the West, Israel and "colonialism."
"Muslims have been bludgeoning each other's freedoms well before European colonialism, well before the state of Israel and well before MTV," she said in an interview before the book's launch. "You can't blame intellectual stagnation or complacency on the White House, the Jews, even blame the House of Saud. We have only ourselves to blame."
Manji is a practicing Muslim. Her family emigrated to Canada after the brutal African dictator, Idi Amin, expelled all non-Africans from Uganda in 1971. Possessing a strong, critical mind, she was kicked out of a madrassa at age fourteen. She said her questioning of life's ways began at a Baptist church baby-sitting service where, at age eight, she received the Most Promising Christian of the Year Award.
http://www.frontpagemagazine.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=10113
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0312326998/qid=1065105428/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_1/104-5532603-5170308?v=glance&s=books&n=507846
The work that has provoked these threats calls for a thorough reform of Islam in order to bring it into the modern world. And, as vexing as the message is for Islamic fundamentalists, even more horrifying for them is the fact that the Muslim author is a lesbian.
Toronto journalist Irshad Manji, 34, writes in her book, The Trouble With Islam: A Wake-up Call for Honesty and Change, that Muslims need to look at themselves and take responsibility for what ails them and their religion rather than continue to blame the West, Israel and "colonialism."
"Muslims have been bludgeoning each other's freedoms well before European colonialism, well before the state of Israel and well before MTV," she said in an interview before the book's launch. "You can't blame intellectual stagnation or complacency on the White House, the Jews, even blame the House of Saud. We have only ourselves to blame."
Manji is a practicing Muslim. Her family emigrated to Canada after the brutal African dictator, Idi Amin, expelled all non-Africans from Uganda in 1971. Possessing a strong, critical mind, she was kicked out of a madrassa at age fourteen. She said her questioning of life's ways began at a Baptist church baby-sitting service where, at age eight, she received the Most Promising Christian of the Year Award.
http://www.frontpagemagazine.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=10113