Agree with the central premise that Islam today is in need of MAJOR reform and modernizing. On the other hand, some of the stuff in the book hasn't aged too well. Idk man, Muslims just really need to chill tf out and stop being SOOOO judgmental of people's choices in the name of religion (read: method of control).

An extremely interesting take on Islam. I learned so much about the faith and how it's been corrupted in the past.

She's asking all the same questions I am, and with her, I await the responses...

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This woman write everything that I've thought since conversion. She picks apart all the stubborn deep-set flaws of Islam and point out where there is room to grow and improve. Without this book I would never have learned about the concept of ijtihad, the individual reading and interpreting of the Qu'ran, finding one's own truth rather than listening to the opinions that have been repeated for centuries and taken as truth. This book took all the flaws that bothered me and listed how they can be changed, that Islam as a whole does not need to bow to the iron whims of the current literal and unbending interpretations that currently hobble it.

A must read for Muslims. Don't be put off by controversy about the author's personal life, or prose that is sometimes wandering and sometimes aggressive. This is a valuable book that poses important questions to a religion that is often viewed by both devotees and liberal non-Muslims as immune to criticism.

Irshad is a very smart women, she writes well and makes her point very clearly. It's important to undertand this isn't a book againist Islam, this book is againist the damage Muslims have done to Islam. She talks about the trouble with Jihad and the way the Koran is interpreted wrongly, the fact that some leader won't allow Muslims to read the book in any language but arabic, yet only a small number of the world's muslim actually read/speak arabic. It's a very eye opening book and it makes one more aware of the trouble within Islam.

I don't like Manji's writing style/tone, but I agree with her central argument: that we need more open discussions about and within Islam. A close-minded Islam has no place in today's world.

A thought-provoking read that has made me keen to learn more. I found the six chapters of this book excellent. As an atheist who knows little about Islam, I found much to learn from the book, and much that I wanted to learn. I suspect it may be an unintended consequence of this book that I feel I can understand, better than I could before, some actions taken in the name of Islam. I can also see where the author is coming from on her call for reform; the concept of, and the author's questioning of, 'foundamentalism' is very relevant, and needs to be considered by, at the very least, every Western Muslim.
Where the books loses points, for me, is that the author fails to acknowledge that some of the problems she highlights in relation to Islam, could equally apply to Catholicism or other religions; nor does she recognise that the roots of any religion lie in the desire to control, and will always reflect the traditions and mores of the area and time in which it originated.