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Most Muslims treat the Quran as a document to imitate rather than interpret, suffocating our capacity to think for ourselves.

— Irshad Manji The Trouble with Islam Today (2005)

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I've read the scholarship that explains these verses 'in their context', and I think there's a fancy dance of evasion going on.

The Trouble with Islam Today (2005)

Our global responsibility now is not to determine who owns what identity, but to convey to future generations what we all owe each other.

The Trouble with Islam Today (2005)

It is time for those who love liberal democracy to join hands with Islam's reformists. Here is a clue to who's who: Moderate Muslims denounce violence committed in the name of Islam but insist that religion has nothing to do with it; reformist Muslims, by contrast, not only deplore Islamist violence but admit that our religion is used to incite it.

In Islam's golden age, so much progress was made that it became the basis of the European Renaissance. We Muslims have to change ourselves, that's the main difference. We can't keep blaming America or Israel for our misery.

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