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2007-06-25 India-Pakistan

'Ijazul Haq's reaction to Rushdie knighthood absurd'

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Posted by Fred 2007-06-25 00:00|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top
File under: Global Jihad

#1 The world needs tens of millions of courageous and thoughtful men and women like Irshad Manji intent on reforming Islam from within.

That might be the only hope we have to avert a clash of civilizations that will make World War II seem like a pillow fight.

Posted by Glinesh Henbane7862 2007-06-25 04:46|| 2007-06-25 04:46|| Front Page Top

#2 The world needs tens of millions of courageous and thoughtful men and women like Irshad Manji intent on reforming Islam from within.

No, the world needs people like Ali Sina. Islam cannot be reformed. Manji is deluding herself if she thinks it is possible.

Posted by twobyfour 2007-06-25 05:04|| 2007-06-25 05:04|| Front Page Top

#3 IMHO, the World needs more intra-Islamic fighting. Specifically, the Dar should become one big Gaza strip.

Posted by gromgoru 2007-06-25 06:55|| 2007-06-25 06:55|| Front Page Top

#4 Islam needs both Ms. Manji and Dr. Sina. Manji to speak for the voiceless within, Sina to show the pathway out. Both ways weaken the hopefully shaky edifice that is Islam today.

Posted by trailing wife 2007-06-25 09:54|| 2007-06-25 09:54|| Front Page Top

#5 I agree with TW for now, but Irshad should at some point admit that Islam is a net evil and opt out.

Posted by mhw 2007-06-25 11:15|| http://hypocrisy-incorporated.blogspot.com/]">[http://hypocrisy-incorporated.blogspot.com/] 2007-06-25 11:15|| Front Page Top

#6 she is offended that every year, there are more women killed in Pakistan for allegedly violating family honour than there are detainees at Guantanamo Bay.

Clears that right up, now doesn't it?

She points out that there is no outrage over the murder of Muslims at the hands of their own. Referring to the Nilofar Bakhtiar case, she says she is offended that in April some mullahs in Pakistan issued a fatwa against hugging. They called a woman touching a man a great sin. She is also offended by their fatwa that women should stay at home and remain covered at all times, and that music store owners and video vendors be bullied into closing shop. Im offended that the government tiptoes around their craziness because these clerics threaten suicide attacks if confronted. Above all, Im offended that so many other Muslims arent offended enough to demonstrate widely against Gods self-appointed ambassadors, she adds.

I'm outraged that more Americans aren't outraged at how all the Muslims don't get outraged by so much Islamic crapulence. If you get my drift.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-06-25 12:06|| 2007-06-25 12:06|| Front Page Top

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