Irshad Manji

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Irshad Manji is a senior fellow with the European Foundation for Democracy and founder of both the Moral Courage Project at New York University's Wagner School of Public Service[1] and the mostly online Project Ijtihad [2]. She is a journalist and author, her columns are distributed world wide by the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Times, Al-Arabiya.net and other media outlets. She also released the documentary Faith Without Fear which was about "reconciling Islam with human rights and freedom"[3].

Manifesto signatory

In 2006 she was one of twelve signatories of Manifesto: Together Facing the New Totalitarianism together with Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Caroline Fourest, Bernard-Henri Lévy, Taslima Nasreen, Salman Rushdie, Antoine Sfeir, Philippe Val, and Ibn Warraq. The manifesto starts as follows: "After having overcome fascism, Nazism, and Stalinism, the world now faces a new totalitarian global threat: Islamism."[4]

Publications

  • The Trouble With Islam Today: A Muslim’s Call for Reform in Her Faith
  • The Trouble With Islam Today: A Wake-up Call for Honesty and Change
  • Risking Utopia: on the Edge of a New Democracy
  • Critical Thinkers for Islamic Reform
  • [MANIFESTO: Together facing the new totalitarianism, signatory.

Affiliations

European Foundation for Democracy, senior fellow circa 2008 | Moral Courage Project | Project Ijtihad

Contact and Resources

Contact

Email: comments@irshadmanji.com
Website: Irshad Manji Home
Facebook: Facebook
Myspace: Myspace
Twitter: Twitter

Resources

References

  1. Moral Courage Project, Irshad Manji Website, Accessed 09-July-2009
  2. Project Ijtihad, Irshad Manji Website, Accessed 13-July-2009
  3. European Foundation for Democracy, The Team, EFD Website, Accessed 03-June-2009
  4. A Manifesto Against Islamism "The Twelve", Jyllands-Posten 28 February 2006