A very bold book. Manji is funny, but I doubt if her sense of humor would be tolerated by most Muslims who read her book. Tough love. That’s what she calls it. Muslims (or Islam today) needs someone to shake them/it into waking up to the reality of today. She argues that Islam is in [...]
Archive for August, 2009
The Trouble with Islam Today by Irshad Manji
Posted in Books on August 31, 2009 | 7 Comments »
عزازيل – رواية ليوسف زيدان
Posted in Books on August 26, 2009 | 8 Comments »
A wonderful book about a monk’s search for the truth and his gradual realization that truth is not as absolute as his religious teachings dictate. The novel begins with the narrator (this is a novel in the epistolary form. These journal entries are supposed to have been found years after they were written) wondering how [...]