Irshad Manji citations

Irshad Manji est une écrivaine canadienne, journaliste et militante. Elle se définit comme féministe et lesbienne, critique violemment les islamistes et les interprétations littérales du Coran. Elle a été désignée par le New York Times comme le « pire cauchemar d’Oussama ben Laden ». Manji est une ardente avocate de la libre-pensée, tradition musulmane nommée « ijtihad ».

Son best-seller The Trouble with Islam Today a été traduit dans plus d’une douzaine de langues, incluant l'arabe, le persan et l'urdu. Les articles de Manji paraissent dans les plus prestigieuses publications mondiales. Manji fait également de fréquentes apparitions dans les médias internationaux tels que BBC, MSNBC, CSPAN, CNN ou FOX News. Wikipedia

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“Most Muslims treat the Quran as a document to imitate rather than interpret, suffocating our capacity to think for ourselves.”

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Irshad Manji livre The Trouble with Islam Today

Source: The Trouble with Islam Today (2005), Ch. 2: Seventy Virgins?

“Islam was not always so close minded. During the 'Golden age' – between the 9th and 11th century – there existed a tradition of critical thinking in the Muslim world.<!”

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“In Islam's golden age, so much progress was made that it became the basis of the European Renaissance. We Muslims have to change ourselves, that's the main difference. We can't keep blaming America or Israel for our misery.”

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Süddeutsche Zeitung http://www.signandsight.com/intodaysfeuilletons/1346.html May 16, 2007

“I've read the scholarship that explains these verses 'in their context', and I think there's a fancy dance of evasion going on.”

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Irshad Manji livre The Trouble with Islam Today

Source: The Trouble with Islam Today (2005), p. 48

“Our global responsibility now is not to determine who owns what identity, but to convey to future generations what we all owe each other.”

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Irshad Manji livre The Trouble with Islam Today

Source: The Trouble with Islam Today (2005), p. 203

“The Koran says nothing about the proper form of government. If the Koran is a document approved by God, either in whole or in part, that silence is deliberate, and if that silence is deliberate that must mean that we have room to manoeuvre, to innovate and to experiment with the different forms of government. So in theory Islam is compatible with the separation of religion and state.”

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“Many Muslim women will not consider themselves as inferior but wear a veil because they feel as dignified human beings. Because they want to protect themselves against staring and judging by men. If women are so dignified, why is it the burden of women to cover up, in order to protect themselves from the stares of men? Why can't be accepted from men to control their own instincts or animal behaviour? This is a question that I have never heard a satisfactory answer from a Muslim women.”

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Muslims need critical thinking - Irshad Manji http://www.ifeminists.net/introduction/editorials/2004/0818verhofstadt.html August 18, 2004 (interview by Dirk Verhofstadt)

“It is time for those who love liberal democracy to join hands with Islam's reformists. Here is a clue to who's who: Moderate Muslims denounce violence committed in the name of Islam but insist that religion has nothing to do with it; reformist Muslims, by contrast, not only deplore Islamist violence but admit that our religion is used to incite it.”

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Irshad Manji: Islam Needs Reformists, Not 'Moderates' http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748703992704576305412360432744 The Wall Street Journal (7 May 2011)

“The Koran says that everything God created is 'excellent' and that nothing that God has created is 'in vain'. If the creator did not wish to create me, a lesbian, then why didn't he create somebody else in my place? And given how explicit the Koran is that God has deliberately designed the world's breathtaking multiplicity, I wonder how my critics can justify their utter condemnation of homosexuality. You know what? I'm not seeking their approval. I don't care if they accept me as a lesbian. I don't care because they are not the arbiters of my life.”

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