'I have to be honest with you. Islam is on very thin ice with me. Kak narisovatj zont v excel. Through our screaming self-pity and our conspicuous silences, we Muslims are conspiring against ourselves. We're in crisis and we're dragging the rest of the world with us. If ever there was a moment for an Islamic reformation, it's now. For the love of God, what are we doing about it?' In this open letter, Irshad Manji unearths the troubling cornerstones of mainstream Islam today: tribal insularity, deep-seated anti-Semitism, and an uncritical acceptance of the Koran as the final, and therefore superior, manifesto of God's will.

Aug 27, 2018 - PDF The Trouble with Islam Today was first published in Canada by Random House in 2003. Join for free. Download full-text PDF. Mar 16, 2005  Her vision revives 'ijtihad,' Islam's lost tradition of independent thinking. In that spirit, Irshad has a refreshing challenge for both Muslims and non-Muslims: Don't silence yourselves. Ask questions---out loud. The Trouble with Islam Today is a clarion call for a fatwa-free future.

But her message is ultimately positive. She offers a practical vision of how Islam can undergo a reformation that empowers women, promotes respect for religious minorities, and fosters a competition of ideas. Her vision revives 'ijtihad,' Islam's lost tradition of independent thinking. In that spirit, Irshad has a refreshing challenge for both Muslims and non-Muslims: Don't silence yourselves. Ask questions---out loud. The Trouble with Islam Today is a clarion call for a fatwa-free future.

It would be very hard to take this book seriously because it has been written by someone who had been raised by an abusive father, who unfortunately was a Muslim and thus the lady stereotyped the world of Muslims to be such and rationalizing her reasons to turning out to be a lesbian, as the only man she knew turned out to be such. What a reason, What a logic and What a wit! The proceeding pages of the book go on to talk about how great and and how democratic the West is and how no It would be very hard to take this book seriously because it has been written by someone who had been raised by an abusive father, who unfortunately was a Muslim and thus the lady stereotyped the world of Muslims to be such and rationalizing her reasons to turning out to be a lesbian, as the only man she knew turned out to be such. What a reason, What a logic and What a wit!

The proceeding pages of the book go on to talk about how great and and how democratic the West is and how not-so-great her religion is (the trouble is, the writer has no sense of distinguishing between 'Islam' and the contemporary 'Muslims around her'; and thus she generalizes her version of Muslims with that of the whole religion). I had to stop after every minute or so and rethink if this 'Islam' she's ranting about exists within us?

No, seriously it doesn't. But it was the inner frustration that she had to take out on the religion because that was what she had been faced with (unfortunately) and thus she assumed that the whole lot of Muslims are such. Moving on towards her series of accusations where she (considering herself the scholar and a great journalist that she is)provides two different verses of Quran and compares them and finally concludes that far from being perfect, this book is amazingly confused within itself and thus questions its authority of how it would even teach its followers to lead. The clearest, simplest and the easiest answer to this is that Quran talks in context. Quran is a deep but increasingly simple book. All one needs to do is read it within context and one will know why it says something in one verse and the other in another. It is thus not about Quran saying different things but us perceiving different things out of it, which unfortunately the dear dimwitted author misses.

I'll keep adding little flaws in the book that she has narrated time and again. Programma dlya razvertki detalej ventilyacii. One of the most important things that Miss Manji has missed is that she herself lacks the proper knowledge and expertise on the Holy book that she lays her accusations upon. And she must know that as a journalist, you have no right to attack upon someone/thing until you have a firm and complete knowledge of it. I haven't finished the book yet but the last comment I'll make before I finish is that this attempt of writing is by someone who is extremely frustrated by her part of world where Muslims live and at the same time, extremely inspired by 'that' part of West where she lives while her book also revolves around that part, which she unmistakably has thought to be the whole story.