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	America at a Crossroads . Faith without Fear \| PBS
		Irshad Manji is the internationally best-selling author of The Trouble with Islam Today: A Muslim’s Call for Reform in her Faith.
		Through them, Manji discovers what she thinks has corrupted a religion of justice to become an ideology of fear.
		Manji introduces us to two Spanish Muslims who represent the humanity that ijtihad can restore to Islam, and the cruelty that Muslims will suffer at the hands of other Muslims if ijithad remains buried.
	www.pbs.org /weta/crossroads/about/show_faith_without_fear.html (593 words)

	Israpundit: An Islam of One: Irshad Manji at Yale
		Manji has been engaged for the past three years in a "jihad" of her own-itjihad the alleged concept of self examination and inquiry that, in her opinion could lead to reform and liberation of the Muslim “umma” the community of Muslim believers.
		Manji’s response was “yes,” she was appalled by the intolerance displayed by members of the umma about the Danish editorial cartoons in an interview she gave yesterday to CNN international, but she used that as a "bully pulpit"-you should pardon the expression-plumping for itjihad.
		Manji clearly was sending a message that she was trying valiantly, perhaps foolishly in light of the Fatwas issued against her, to retain her identity as a Muslim, as a living example that you can have your “cake and eat it too” and live in the sweet dream of western tolerance.
	www.israpundit.com /archives/2006/02/an_islam_of_one.php (3513 words)

	Irshad Manji - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Irshad Manji (born 1968) is a Canadian author, journalist, and activist.
		Irshad is an advocate for the use of critical thinking, known as ijtihad in Islamic tradition.
		Irshad is an outspoken proponent for Ijtihad which is Islam’s lost tradition of independent thinking which went into a decline toward the end of the 11th century and was replaced by a stricter literal version of Islam.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Irshad_Manji (802 words)

	The Trouble with Irshad Manji - Palestine Solidarity Review (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Irshad Manji, author of The Trouble with Islam, has taken official society by storm with her attacks on the culture and politics of the Muslim and Arab world.
		Irshad Manji is not a passing phenomenon but a purveyor of one of the most advanced forms of racism and imperialism today.
		Manji is blind to the fact that historically, Arabs and Muslims, like all people, have resisted and challenged imperialism and racism from abroad and authoritarianism in their societies by speaking the languages of their own traditions, through a creative interpretation of their own religion and culture.
	psreview.org /content/view/26/72 (2021 words)

	Islamica Magazine - The Trouble with the Trouble: Irshad Manji and the Cost of Progressive Islam (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Irshad Manji asserts that The Trouble with Islam, her controversial call for reform in Muslim culture and faith, intends to “rediscover Islam’s lost tradition of independent thinking.” By the book’s conclusion, this reader was only upset that the tradition had been so poorly hidden.
		Manji initiates her ijtihad by reminding the reader that, according to the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him), religion is substantively——and primarily——how people deal with and treat one another.
		Manji, like many other progressives, burbles on and on about the need for rule of law, fairness and democracy, of the construction of an Islam supposedly conducive to these things, yet her own system lacks the rigor that would allow for the realization of a system so dependent on predictability and reason.
	www.islamicamagazine.com /issue-13/the-trouble-with-the-trouble-irshad-manji-and-the-cost-of-progressive.html (1279 words)

	Reviewing Irshad Manji's Trouble With Islam \| From Occupied Palestine
		Irshad Manji, according to the jacket of her book, is "a broadcaster, author, public speaker, and media enterpreneur, born in East Africa and raised on the west coast of Canada." She was the producer and host of QueerTelevision and calls herself "a journalist with a reputation for flinging open doors" (pg.
		Manji might not have had access to Anne Brodsky's excellent book on RAWA, 'With All Our Strength', which was just published (2), but she certainly had access to their website (3) and to their words.
		Manji paints a picture of Israelis debating openly and honestly in their media questions of whether Israel should accept more religious immigrants from North America; whether state lands should be allocated to exclusively Jewish towns; and whether CNN was too biased against Israel to be shown on Israeli airwaves.
	www.fromoccupiedpalestine.org /node/1233 (4924 words)

	Irshad Manji: Israel/Islam/Diversity.......huh? (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Manji, when asked outright, will admit she's not an Islam scholar, but she chants over and over that she "studied the Quran for 20 years", so it's not surprising some people imagine more than is really there.
		Manji no doubt thumbed through the Quran and a few related books and articles in her spare time, but she did a ton of other things as well during those 20 years, much of which was plain old self-promotion, at which she is extremely skilled.
		Manji says she also paid a little visit to Gaza, but she was pretty mum about that, except to tell the worn out tale that titillates so many western males.
	www.yayacanada.com /manji.html (3020 words)

	Islam's marked woman - Books - www.theage.com.au (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Irshad says it was the closing of the gates of itjihad that led to disaster for Muslims, "not the Crusaders or the West or anything else.
		Irshad is needlingly, constantly aware that she could not even begin to enjoy the freedom she presently has in any Muslim society.
		Irshad knows that she is dragging into the open an argument many Western Muslims have confined to their own minds for a very long time.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2004/06/01/1086058850070.html (1782 words)

	Ghost of a flea: More Irshad Manji
		The Toronto Star's Antonia Zerbisias, dissed Manji (a "professional lesbian") then mounted the paper's favorite hobbyhorse, and insinuated that Manji and her publisher were "playing the media to max out publicity, issuing a fatwa on themselves as it were." Zerbisias also alleged that the positive coverage of the book was actually a form of racism.
		Manji is a self-described lefty, activist, feminist Muslim woman taking on the medievalists instead of cowering in a corner or marching in their defense.
		The fact Manji has thusfar managed to exercise her right to express a non-Islamist vision of Islam without suffering harm is a blessing she should be able to take for granted, not a sign threats to her person should be underestimated.
	www.ghostofaflea.com /archives/000630.html (867 words)

	Irshad Manji's Flawed Vision of Islam
		Manji then postulates that if Muhammad Atta had only sought to question the traditional meaning of hur (along with other descriptions of heaven), perhaps he would not have followed through on the mass murder of September 11.
		While Manji will not defend settlers who torch olive trees, she calls them “infuriating, but relatively marginal,” betraying a lack of knowledge of the heavy influence the settler movement has had, and currently enjoys, in Israel’s political landscape—despite their illegality under all forms of international law.
		In spite of the shallowness of her research, Manji does raise valid questions regarding the treatment of women by Muslims, the lack of creative thought (or ijtihad) in the Muslim community and the lazy reliance on victimhood.
	www.islamawareness.net /AntiMusWriters/Manji/flawed.html (2568 words)

	Stanford Review [v3.0] - April 29, 2005
		Irshad gives credit for this to the spirit of ijtihad (“ij-tee-had”), which is the “lost tradition of independent thinking” and reasoning in Islam that peaked from the 9th to 11th centuries.
		Irshad had the choice, she recalled, to go on with her life “becoming a typical, materialistic North American and Muslim” or to give Islam another chance, and to ask it to do the same of her.
		Manji expressed the belief that men who speak out against women participating in the economy do so only to protect their privileges of comfort in the social structure, not because they are fundamentally opposed.
	www.stanfordreview.org /Archive/Volume_XXXIV/Issue_6/Opinions/Opinions4.shtml (1612 words)

	The Trouble With Irshad Manji: Ideas & Identities of India Pakistan (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Irshad Manji’s The Trouble with Islam: A Muslim’s Call for Reform in Her Faith was bound to create controversy, and although it hasn’t received a Salman-Rushdie style fatwa, it’s certainly generated its fair share of debate.
		Manji has simply forgotten that for any kind of work to be taken seriously, the writer must weigh her assertions and ideas against opposing points of view.
		One of Manji’s main contentions is that Islamic countries put minorities in an inferior position, and she cites the Pact of Umar as proof of the dhimmitude, a word coined by the Egyptian scholar Bat Ye’or to signify “Islam’s ideology of wholescale discrimination against Jews and Chrsitians”.
	www.chowk.com /show_article.cgi?aid=00004158&channel=gulberg&start=160&end=169&page=17&chapter=2&order=0 (1998 words)

	Weblog Anja Meulenbelt » Kritiek op Irshad Manji
		According to Irshad Manji’s rationale, because one Muslim Mufti accepted the hospitality of Hitler, after being expelled from Palestine by the British colonial authorities, all us 1.2 billion Muslims, a quarter of humanity, deserve to be accused of complicity in the Holocaust.
		Manji: Thank you for thanking my wife Nargis and me for a “spirited discussion” that landed you “important insights.” But the kind of insight you display in your book is troubling.
		Als Irshad Manji echt beweerd heeft dat moslims aan de holocaust medeschuldig zijn is dat natuurlijk onzin.
	anjameulenbelt.sp.nl /weblog/2005/10/22/kritiek-op-irshad-manji (12328 words)

	Irshad Manji: Calling for Reform in Islam - Associated Content
		Manji recently appeared in CBS News to talk about the reaction to the Pope's speech on religious dialogue in which he quoted a Byzantine emperor's unflattering remarks on Islam.
		Manji was born in in 1968, her family relocated to when she was four.
		Manji’s critics may have a point in saying that she lacks religious scholarship, but the fact that so many people, not only Muslims but Jews, Christians and Hindus, are reading the book and applauding her for her strength and courage in discussing such taboo subjects means that she has some valid points.
	www.associatedcontent.com /article/65122/irshad_manji_calling_for_reform_in.html (600 words)

	Johann Hari - Archive
		Sitting with Irshad in a London boardroom, it would be hard for anybody to guess that she is the star attraction on jihadist death-lists.
		Irshad is a key figure in the civil war within twenty-first century Islam.
		Irshad is needlingly, constantly aware that she could not even begin to enjoy the freedom she currently enjoys in any Muslim society.
	www.johannhari.com /archive/article.php?id=388 (2416 words)

	UUBN Sermons - Irshad Manji's Call To Reform Islam (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Irshad Manji is a Muslim Who lives in Canada and works as a journalist and human rights activist.
		Irshad Manji had a transforming religious experience, that gave her hope for her religious heritage.
		Irshad Manji seeks to be the voice of a reforming presence in Islam.
	www.uubn.org /sermons/s20051002.html (1156 words)

	IRSHAD MANJI@Arts & Opinion
		IRSHAD MANJI is the best-selling author of The Trouble with Islam Today: A Muslim’s Call for Reform in Her Faith and is the host of the TVO (TV Ontario) show, Big Ideas.
		IRSHAD MANJI: Patricia is absolutely right to point out that there are remarkable parallels in what the respective prophets, or messengers, of these religions affirmed about women.
		IRSHAD MANJI: Many young, struggling Muslim women are asking themselves what there is to love about this faith, not just what there is to follow, absorb, or identify with.
	www.artsandopinion.com /2006_v5_n1/irshadmanji.htm (4322 words)

	She's Got Chutzpah: Irshad Manji
		When 35-year-old Irshad Manji sat down to create the engaging and lively The Trouble with Islam, she knew that her book would be bigger, much bigger, than girl meets God.
		Manji has become the target of death threats and must travel with what she calls "appropriate security." She has been called "the nonfiction Salman Rushdie." Shortly before her book came out, Manji met with Rushdie and asked him why she should publish a book that would invite the kind of havoc into her life.
		Manji says he told her, "Once you put out a thought, it cannot be unthought.
	www.oprah.com /spiritself/omag/slide/ss_o_slide_200405_chutzpah_04.jhtml (294 words)

	savethemales.ca - exposing feminism and the new world order
		It was comical to listen to Manji exhort Muslims to challenge their tradition in front of an audience composed mainly of Jews, a community not noted for welcoming constructive criticism.
		The globalist elite peddles Manji, a Toronto writer who immigrated from Uganda as an infant, as a herald of necessary change in Muslim society.
		Irshad Manji is sabotaging all four and is rewarded handsomely.
	www.savethemales.ca /000642.html (1166 words)

	THE BLANKET * Index: Current Articles
		It appalls me that Irshad Manji who demands the right to be free from what she calls Islamic totalitarianism can love such a human rights negating fiendish construction as this diabolical wall.
		On learning of Irshad Manji's passionate appeal on behalf of her own sex, I could not prevent my mind drifting to the eight year old Palestinian girl butchered by Israeli troops as she engaged in nothing more sinister than going on a journey to have eight stitches removed from her chin.
		EDITOR'S NOTE: Irshad Manji's representative clarifies Irshad has never claimed to "love" the wall; that sentiment was attributed to her article by the headline from the New York Times, which she had no control over.
	lark.phoblacht.net /AM19030611g.html (1262 words)

	Irshad Manji @ The Huffington Post - Sepia Mutiny
		Irshad Manji published an interesting discussion on the sanctity of the Quran in response to the "Newsweek Lied, People Died" brouhaha for the uber-left Huffington Post -
		I am not a big fan of Irshad Manji, mostly because she tends to alienate people instead of starting meaningful discussions.
		Irshad Manji has become to the efforts for modernization of Islam as Michael Moore was to anti-war movement.
	www.sepiamutiny.com /sepia/archives/001570.html (1790 words)

	ANALYSIS: AMERICAN RELEASE OF IRSHAD MANJI'S BOOK, "THE TROUBLE WITH ISLAM" (Site not responding. Last check: )
		IRSHAD MANJI (Author, "The Trouble With Islam"): But I'm arguing that this supremacy complex is dangerous, because when abuse happens under the banner of my faith, as it does under any faith's banner, we Muslims, by and large, do not yet know how to debate, dissent, revise or reform.
		MANJI: The democracy of thought and expression that I experienced in the public realm clashed with the repression that I experienced in the mosque and in the home.
		MANJI: Towards the end of the discussion, I challenged the Muslim students to live up to their stated opposition to violence, and organize a Muslim protest against suicide bombings.
	www.npr.org /programs/atc/transcripts/2004/jan/040114.ludden.html (942 words)

	Commentary from Irshad Manji
		Irshad Manji, the keynote speaker at the Seventh Annual Stanley C. Golder Interfaith Lecture held April 30, 2006, has made a passionate and personal call for reformation and tolerance in the Islamic world in the wake of recent acts of terrorism.
		Manji talks of her childhood experiences and explains why she became a "Muslim refusenik." In the following commentary published across the world and aired on National Public Radio (NPR), she offers practical suggestions for changing Islam and explores how the Muslim world can move beyond anti-Semitism to embrace diversity.
		Irshad Manji, a fellow at Yale, is the author of "The Trouble With Islam Today: A Muslim's Call for Reform in Her Faith."
	www.templejeremiah.org /ev/irshad_manji.php (762 words)

	Amazon.com: The Trouble with Islam: A Muslim's Call for Reform in Her Faith: Books: Irshad Manji (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Irshad Manji, a Toronto-based television journalist, was born to Muslim parents in South Africa.
		Yet Manji has the courage and fortitude to shed light on the myriad of problems inflicting her faith: the oppression of women in the Arab and Muslim world; the unwavering intolerance of other religions in Arab and Muslim nations; the rampant anti-Semitism festering and infecting mosques around the world.
		Manji's intense and raw distaste of Islam is so clearly laid out in the pages of her book that I wonder if a reform will be sufficient and if there will be anything recognizable left of the religion after she is through reforming it.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/ASIN/0312326998/rantingprofs-20 (2907 words)

	Lesbian, Feminist, Israel-loving Muslim takes aim at her beloved Islam -- Beliefnet.com
		Fiery author Irshad Manji takes aim at Islam, the religion she loves but believes is full of hatred today.
		Irshad Manji, 35, has been called the "nonfiction Salman Rushdie" and "Osama Bin Laden's worst nightmare"-and she takes both as compliments.
		Irshad Manji describes her rocky path from Ugandan Muslim to Western questioner.
	www.beliefnet.com /story/139/story_13970_1.html (482 words)

	Belanger: Irshad Manji's Trip to Israel
		Manji captured the attention of Jewish organizations and her writings began to be included in their publications.
		Manji is fully aware of “illegal settlements, assault helicopter, checkpoints, curfews and the demolition of Yasser Arafat’s compound” Ms.
		Manji is truly misinformed about the situation in the West Bank and Gaza, but in the age of the Internet, research does not involve spending hours in libraries.
	www.canpalnet-ottawa.org /belanger3.html (1600 words)

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