Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Hot Chick / Cool Woman - Irshad Manji



Irshad Maniji could be Adhaalathu Party and Osama's worst nightmare...

Irshad Manji, a lesbian feminist Muslim and, say many, one of the bravest women alive, has revealed the horrors of the first time it sunk in how barbaric her own religion could be: she was aged 10 and her father was chasing her through the house with a kitchen knife.

Manji, who has received numerous death threats as a result of her campaign to highlight how Islam oppresses millions of its followers, had threatened to report her father to the police for the way he regularly beat his wife.

Born in 1968 in Idi Amin's Uganda, but living in Canada when the attack happened, Manji escaped to a hiding place on the roof. There, she tells the Observer, she had an epiphany. "I realised I was grateful because there were people I could go to, talk to, whereas if we'd still been in East Africa that may not have been the case.

"I realised I lived in a society where the story of who we are as a people was not finished, which meant that I, as an individual, mattered. I could be a partial author of this grander story."

Manji, who now lives in New York behind bulletproof windows and dares not own a mobile phone in case it can be used to track her down, is best known for her book, The Trouble with Islam Today: A Muslim's Call for Reform in Her Faith, published in 2004. It has been a huge bestseller in the West but has been banned across most of the Middle East. The New York Times has compared her to Martin Luther and called her "Osama bin Laden's worst nightmare".

In the new interview, she says that a much later moment of realisation came when she was working at a religious television station and her (Jewish) boss put a newspaper cutting on her desk. It was the story of a young woman in northern Nigeria who had been sentenced by a sharia court to 180 lashes for a sexual offence, even though she had seven male witnesses to testify that she had been raped. Her boss had scribbled in the margin: "Irshad, one of these days you'll tell me how you reconcile this kind of insanity and female genital mutilation with your Muslim faith."

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11 comments:

  1. Anonymous2:59 AM

    IF LIBERTY MEANS ANYTHING AT ALL, IT MEANS THE RIGHT TO TELL PEOPLE WHAT THEY DO NOT WANT TO HEAR.- GEORGE ORWELL

    LOL and yu thought Abdul Majeed doesn't have family eh. There are consequences to every action, if for three years you have been free to mock other peoples long held beliefs through distortions/mischaracterizations/half-truths and every possible tactic in hate-propaganda, then be sure the next three will be challenged. And going by the kinda folks who are out to get you, I'd advise you against it

    I doubt if there are many people who do not know who you are by now, even among your friends.

    If are looking for a reform within islam, which you are clearly not (not taking into account this article which you have been forced to post), then it can only be done from within. Not from without. No people will stand and listen while being told from an obvious 'infidel' in the most despicable way, how misguided their ways are.

    It takes finesse to positively change peoples mindset. And only when it comes from someone from among them.

    After a minor pause for my benefit, you now continue hoping to spite me (not taking into account this article), which let me tell you has no effect on me. To your earlier msn pleas of "there is no reason for what you do"- my answer always was, 'this blog'. I always knew.

    You assumed proxy could disguise your identity. You obviously underestimated the power of the human mind over machine. I can smell hypocrisy and pathological liars from a mile away.


    Shut down this website and start afresh another blog aiming to address the many social ills within moslem society (leave it to us to point out the evils within non-moslem ones), and clemency maybe yours.

    I am quite sure there are equally determined people on the other side of this battlefield.

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    yeah, thats true....remembr even Muslim converts talk about whats good in Islam not the bad in the religon they leave behind..why dont you do that ...try to prove ur religon is right...

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