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