9 Quotes by Irshad Manji

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

One of the enduring lessons of history is that whenever an empire becomes insular to ‘protect’ itself, intellectual decline and cultural intolerance are sure to follow.

Courage is not the absence of fear. Courage is the recognition that some things are more important than fear – and what’s more important to me is faith.

If ever there was a moment for an Islamic reformation, it’s now. For the love of God, what are we doing about it?

Bin Laden-ism, I don’t think, is dead yet. And I think there’s a long way to go before we can legitimately say that, you know, it is no longer in our midst.

A lot of Arabs have proven to themselves that there is an alternative to Bin Laden-ism if they want to do away with the corrupt, autocratic regimes in their countries.

We often hear Islamists declare, ‘We love death as much as you people in the west love life.’ Well, if we’re going to now celebrate and jubilate in the death of Bin Laden, I have to say, I think that comes eerily close to mimicking the likes of the Islamists. And that gives me the creeps.

Guys like Bin Laden have been responsible for injuring and maiming and murdering more Muslims than any foreign imperial power has in the last hundred years.

Civilization is built by the artist, by the literary exponent, by the ability to generate beauty and music and new methods of expression.