Irshad Manji has a message for her fellow Muslims that some might not like: shed the victim mentality and pour your passion into modernizing Islam. "If we really want non-Muslims to believe that Islam is peace, we've got to start bloody well acting as if that's true," Manji told Mindelle Jacobs of the Edmonton Sun before speaking in Edmonton about her new book, Allah, Liberty and Love.
Many Muslims are offended when questioned about violence perpetrated around the world in the name of Islam, but offence is the price of diversity, says Manji, who rocketed to fame - and became the target of death threats - after the publication of her first book, The Trouble With Islam Today. [Cobourg Atheist] Read more [via National Secular Society]
