The Trouble with Islam
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The Trouble With Islam is a book written by Irshad Manji which takes a critical look at Islam.
Quote: That doesn’t mean I refuse to be a Muslim, it simply means I refuse to join an army of automatons in the name of Allah.
The Trouble with Islam is an open letter from me, a Muslim voice of reform, to concerned citizens worldwide -- Muslim and not. It's about why my faith community needs to come to terms with the diversity of ideas, beliefs and people in our universe, and why non-Muslims have a pivotal role in helping us get there. The themes I'm exploring with the utmost honesty include:
- the inferior treatment of women in Islam;
- the Jew-bashing that so many Muslims persistently engage in;
- the continuing scourge of slavery in countries ruled by Islamic regimes.
I appreciate that every faith has its share of literalists. Christians have their Evangelicals. Jews have the ultra-Orthodox. For God's sake, even Buddhists have fundamentalists. But what this book hammers home is that only in Islam is literalism mainstream.Which means that when abuse happens under the banner of Islam, most Muslims have no clue how to dissent, debate, revise or reform.
Contents
- The Letter
- How I Became a Muslim Refusenik
- Seventy Virgins?
- When Did We Stop Thinking?
- Gates and Girdles
- Who’s Betraying Whom?
- The Hidden Underbelly of Islam
- Operation Ijtihad
- In Praise of Honesty
- Thank God for the West
Edition
- St. Martin's Press (hardcover), 2004, ISBN 0312326998