Irshad Manji > Quotes

“Muslims need to wake up. They also need to start drinking wine, embrace any and all homoerotic tendencies, write some poetry and for the most part free themselves from the fundamentalist chains they have created (for themselves and everyone else!). The Muslim world will only be free when bars fill the streets and women show off their natural, feminine beauty. Muslims need to grow up and stop expecting everyone to be mindless sheep before a 1,400-year-old oral tradition. Nakedness will free Dar-el-Islam!”
― Irshad Manji, Allah, Liberty and Love: The Courage to Reconcile Faith and Freedom

“قانون الشريعة: بعدما قيل لهم أن الشريعة تجسد المثل الاسلامية العلياافترض غالبية المسلمين أن الشريعة مقدسة...يكتب ضياء الدين ساردار "ان القسم الأعظم من الشريعة ما هو الا الرأي الفقهي لفقهاء كلاسيكيين هذا هو السبب في أنه كلما فرضت الشريعة خارج سياق الزمن الذي وضعت فيه تكتسب المجتمعات الاسلامية احساسا قروسطيا.هذا هو ما نشهده في السعودية، ايران، السودان، افغانستان”
― Irshad Manji, The Trouble With Islam Today: A Muslim's Call for Reform in Her Faith

“rabbit hole of relativism.”
― Irshad Manji, Allah, Liberty and Love: The Courage to Reconcile Faith and Freedom

“Civilization is built by the artist, by the literary exponent, by the ability to generate beauty and music and new methods of expression.”
― Irshad Manji, The Trouble With Islam Today: A Muslim's Call for Reform in Her Faith

“Faith doesn't forbid exploration. It's dogma that does. Dogma, by definition, is threatened by questions, while faith welcomes questions because it trusts that God, being magisterial, can handle them. That's a God whose grace can be felt by curious individuals everywhere.”
― Irshad Manji, Allah, Liberty and Love: The Courage to Reconcile Faith and Freedom

“It comes from the same root as jihad, ’to struggle,’ but unlike violent struggle, ijtihad is about struggling to understand our world by using our minds. Which implies exercising the freedom to ask questions—sometimes uncomfortable ones. I spoke about why all of us, Muslim and not, need ijtihad.”
― Irshad Manji, Allah, Liberty and Love: The Courage to Reconcile Faith and Freedom

“People who act on their moral courage will always encounter disapproval. To have moral courage is to challenge conformity within our own tribes--be they religious, cultural, ideological or professional--and to do so for a more universal good.”
― Irshad Manji, Allah, Liberty and Love: The Courage to Reconcile Faith and Freedom

“God loves me enough to give me choices and the liberty to make them. In turn, I am to love God's other children enough to have faith in their ability to make choices.”
― Irshad Manji, Allah, Liberty and Love: The Courage to Reconcile Faith and Freedom