The Trouble with Islam: A Wake-up Call for Honesty and Change - Brossura

“The Trouble With Islam may well become to non-fiction what Salman Rushdie’s 1988 novle The Satanic Verses was to fiction. Not just explosive but, in all likelihood, in the eyes of Muslim fundamentalists from Tehran to Jakarta, blasphemous.”
—The Globe and Mail

“Ms. Manji is a blazingly ariculate young Canadian Muslim. The subject of her new book, The Trouble With Islam, is a loud, clear call for honesty and reform. It is wry, blunt and irreverant, but never bitter.”
—The Globe and Mail

“The Trouble With Islam is bound to be one of the most talked-about books of the fall season.”
—The Ottawa Citizen

“Manji. . .brings real insight to her subject.”
—The New York Post

“Irshad Manji’s The Touble With Islam: A wake-up call for honesty and change promises to be one of the year’s most controversial books. ... This is a bold book, considering that many North Americans are still tending their wounds. Manji draws the line and crosses it, all in one graceful gesture.”
—Avenue magazine

“It is ... timely and important, a book that challenges the reader to ask questions and think. One doesn’t have to agree with everything she says. It is the duty of the silent Muslim masses to join in this conversation about Islam.”
—Winnipeg Free Press

“The mainstream Islamic muzzle on free speech and the pursuit of equal rights [is] discussed with savvy and intelligence, and Manji’s sincere cry for change brings a drop of optimism to a discussion filled with lies and innuendo...Its light, breezy language makes the issues accessible and restores a contemporary, honest level of discussion to debates on the Middle East...But for those of us who have yearned for equal playing fields and honest partners on issues ranging from suicide bombing, Muslim anti-Semitism and homophobia to Israel’s attempts to pass discriminatory legislation and the legitimacy of targeted killings, there is now someone to debate with.”
—The Canadian Jewish Press

“She isn’t the first to call for a reformation in Islam...but her easy conversational style makes it accessible to a range of readers.”
—Metro Toronto

“Irshad Manji and her book, The Trouble With Islam...represent poignantly the dilemma of young, born Muslims drawn to the wider secular culture of the West.”
—The Globe and Mail

“If you read only one book on the Muslim hierarchy and its effect on its people and on the world, this should be it. The courageous author, calling for ‘honesty and change,’ is not afraid to tell it like it is.”
—Canadian Jewish News

“Manji’s new book, The Trouble With Islam: A wake-up call for honesty and change, is a cannonball about to splash into the Muslim world’s pool.”
—The London Free Press

“Manji is to be commended for seeking and promoting the tradition of ijtihad, or independent thinking, and the human face of Islam.”
—The Gazette (Montreal)

“The Trouble With Islam is worthy of close attention and praise as a heartfelt declaration of faith in the power of argument to reveal important insights about a religion whose global significance increases every day.”
—Georgia Straight

“The Trouble With Islam is a brisk, brash, fascinating read. It bristles with ideas, both intelligent and challenging. Manji has done her homework and her vigorous defence of controversial positions is not only admirable, but convincing.”
—The London Free Press

“Irshad Manji...is nothing if not courageous. And honest. And immensely passionate. And she’s just written The Trouble With Islam, by turns a history lesson, theological treatise, diary entry, and stream-of-consciousness open letter with the informal, off-the-cuff tone of a long e-mail message.”
—The Toronto Sun

“Crammed with acute observations and cogent arguments that show Islam is much more than fatwas and fasting.”
—Edmonton Journal

The New York Times describes Irshad Manji as “Osama bin Laden’s worst nightmare.” She takes that as a compliment.

Irshad is the best-selling author of The Trouble with Islam: A Wake-Up Call for Honesty and Change. Her book has been published internationally, including in Pakistan. The Arabic and Urdu translations are posted on her website and can be downloaded free-of-charge.

Irshad hosts “Big Ideas,” TVOntario’s weekly show that features innovative thinkers in fields ranging from science to spirituality. She is also a mentor to young scholars at the Pierre Trudeau Foundation in Montreal.

As a volunteer, Irshad sits on the inter-faith editorial board of Seventeen magazine, based in New York. Above all, she is working with young Muslims throughout the world to launch a leadership center that will promote the liberal Islamic reformation.

Recognizing Irshad’s own leadership, Oprah Winfrey has honoured her with the first annual Chutzpah Award for “audacity, nerve, boldness and conviction.” Maclean’s put her on its 2004 Honour Roll of “Canadians Who Make a Difference.” And Ms. magazine has named Irshad a Feminist for the 21st Century.