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Irshad Manji (born 1968) is a Ugandan-born Canadian educator. She is the author of The Trouble with Islam Today (2004) and Allah, Liberty and Love (2011), both of which have been banned in several Muslim countries.
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My mission: to teach a critical mass of people the skills of moral courage — doing the right thing in the face of our fears. This mission has been a life-long journey. Growing up in a violent household, I made a commitment to use my education for good. That meant thinking for myself.
Irshad Manji is a globally acclaimed educator and New York Times bestselling author. She… · Experience: Moral Courage · Education: The University of British Columbia · Location: Brooklyn ...
- Moral Courage
Oct 15, 2003 · LIKE THOUSANDS of Muslims originally from South Asia, Irshad Manji's parents fled Uganda in the early 1970s to escape the wrath of dictator Idi Amin. They found sanctuary in Canada and enrolled their daughter in a madressa, an Islamic religious school, in suburban Vancouver, where they expected her to dutifully memorize her lessons.
Allah, Liberty & Love: The Courage to Reconcile Faith and Freedom. In Allah, Liberty and Love, Irshad Manji paves a path for Muslims and non-Muslims to transcend the fears that stop so many of us from living with honest-to- God integrity: the fear of offending others in a multicultural world as well as the fear of questioning our own communities.
Jan 1, 2003 · In this open letter, Irshad Manji unearths the troubling cornerstones of mainstream Islam today: tribal insularity, deep-seated anti-Semitism, and an uncritical acceptance of the Koran as the final, and therefore superior, manifesto of God's will.
Mar 16, 2005 · Irshad Manji is founder of the award-winning Moral Courage Project at the University of Southern California and the New York Times bestselling author of The Trouble With Islam Today, translated into more than thirty languages and later adapted into the Emmy-nominated PBS film Faith Without Fear.
Irshad Manji, winner of Oprah’s first Chutzpah Award, directs the Moral Courage Project at New York University. Her #1 Canadian bestseller, The Trouble with Islam Today : A Muslim’s Call for Reform in Her Faith, is published in more than 30 languages.
The Trouble with Islam Today, originally titled The Trouble with Islam, is a 2004 book critical of Islam written by Irshad Manji, styled as an open letter to concerned citizens worldwide, Muslim or not.
