The Trouble with Islam Today

Controversial book-The Trouble with Islam Today: A Wake-up Call for Honesty and Change by Irshad Manji, which calls herself as a Muslim refusenik. So, what is all about? I would like to suggest to everybody..open your mind first if you want to read this book. Let me start with author background-so who is Irshad Manji? She is a refugee from Idi Amin regime (Uganda)-(im also interested with Idi Amin story-among cruellest leader in the world) & grew up in Canada. She wrote this book based on her experienced of 'struggling' from Idi Amin regime, secular public school & the Islamic religious school of madressa in Canada. Her idea in this book is about 'ijtihad'. Oh! i have to remind you elsewell that she is LESBIAN. Shock? Hem, so many readers said her idea in this book also based on her 'lesbianism' thinking. Well, what ever. Like what i said in the beginning-open your mind! I can say that 99% of her idea about the way muslim people have to 're-thinking' and 're-building' their life in modern world are 'dangerous'-if you are in traditional-thinking group. But-read, & try to understand her explaination & discussion on each issue. Very interesting. Even, many ulama' also agree with her. Just forget that shes lesbian, focus on her idea about 'ijtihad'. Myself, i like her idea on "If the Koran came to Prophet Muhammad as a message of peace, why did he command his army to kill an entire Jewish tribe?" Im always asking myself about this issue. For me, conflict between Israel-Palestine is between Zionist & Arab Palestine. Im still arguing if somebody say that this is the conflict between Muslim & Jewish. Of course, most of Zionist are Jewish but dont forget that most of them are American-European-Jewish, not purely Jewish. Watch Exodus, if you want to understand more about these zionist group. Understand Arab people stand & their history with Jewish, before and after they become Islam followers. Understand why other Arabs outside of Palestine doesnt really care the conflict. Their focus just on Al-Aqsa, not really on Arab-Palestine peoples. Read this book, read it...very interesting..not just Israel-Palestine issue, but also about women status, culture domination vs islam orders, straight vs homo & many others. I enjoy reading this book because i try to understand the troubles among muslim around the world. At least, i got some new idea how to think or justify what really happen in this world especially if it relating with muslim peoples & muslim world! http://www.muslim-refusenik.com/