Irshad Manji

"The Koran says that everything God created is 'excellent' and that nothing that God has created is 'in vain'. If the creator did not wish to create me, a lesbian, then why didn't he create somebody el…"

"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 re…"

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

"Islam was not always so close minded. During the 'Golden age' – between the 9th and 11th century – there existed a tradition of critical thinking in the Muslim world."

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

"The Koran says nothing about the proper form of government. If the Koran is a document approved by God, either in whole or in part, that silence is deliberate, and if that silence is deliberate that m…"

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

"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…"