Philip

Irshad Manji, author of “The Trouble with Islam Today: A Wake-Up Call for Honesty and Change” gives her view that as a Muslim, she is offended that there is hypocrisy in how Muslims treat each other (citing honour killings, fatwas against hugging, suicide bombings and other examples) and how no public condemnation of these issues has been raised while when something Muslims find objectional occurs, they go all out to display their displeasure (such as the knighting of Salman Rushdie).

Read about it from Religion News Blog here.

While having a very quick look into the issue, I discovered on the flip side various Muslims are displeased with Irshad’s books and propaganda that they consider is being taken wholesale by the West, so there is some serious controversy going on claiming she is taking quotes out of context, lying about being targetted for death and so on. Hopefully eventually some useful dialog and debate will come out of it…

Read it here.