![]() On one side, the carnivorous resurgence of the worst aspects of liberalism and of a particularly unenlightened humanism leads to backward-looking progressives banging the drum for war. This is quite important in an era where two of the main threats are as follows. But in addition, by saying ‘the stubborn streak,’ she avoids painting with an overly broad brush too. By saying ‘we all,’ Manji avoids weasel words and euphemism she eschews overly vague and ‘particularizing’ fluff and spin. These two questions are actually framed pretty well. The first two questions of the five that immediately follow are: ‘Why are we all being held hostage by what’s happening between the Palestinians and the Israelis? What’s with the stubborn streak of anti-Semitism in Islam?’ Reasonable questions, even if they make followers of relatively extreme forms of Islam uncomfortable… let alone privileged liberals of a particular cast of mind! In her open letter at the beginning of the book, entitled ‘My Fellow Muslims,’ Manji asks a series of probing questions, from which ‘we can no longer hide,’ the collective pronoun ‘we’ referring to her fellow Muslims (Mainstream Publishing, 2005, 12). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The progressive Muslim, Irshad Manji, asks very probing questions in her book The Trouble with Islam Today. ![]()
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