Frasi di Irshad Manji
Irshad Manji
Data di nascita: 1968
Irshad Manji è una scrittrice e giornalista canadese di origine ugandese.
Frasi Irshad Manji
„Dopo che fui cacciata da scuola, ho imparato da sola sull'islam molto più di tutti quei musulmani che frequentano le scuole. Se più musulmani lo facessero, riflettessero da soli, la nostra religione sarebbe molto diversa. Ho notato che molti giovani lo desiderano. Quando parlo alle università, gli studenti poi vengono da me. «Aiutaci», dicono. «Abbiamo bisogno d'aria in questa religione soffocante.»“
Origine: Citato in Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Non sottomessa, traduzione di Asia Lamberti, Einaudi, 2005. ISBN 88-06-17650-1
„La maggioranza di noi non è musulmana perché ci pensa, ma perché ci nasce. Siamo musulmani, punto e basta.“
Origine: Quando abbiamo smesso di pensare?, p. 22
„Solo le società libere permettono agli individui di reinventarsi e alle religioni di evolvere.“
Origine: Quando abbiamo smesso di pensare?, p. 11
„I've read the scholarship that explains these verses 'in their context', and I think there's a fancy dance of evasion going on.“
— Irshad Manji, libro The Trouble with Islam Today
Origine: The Trouble with Islam Today (2005), p. 48
„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.“
Süddeutsche Zeitung http://www.signandsight.com/intodaysfeuilletons/1346.html May 16, 2007
„Most Muslims treat the Quran as a document to imitate rather than interpret, suffocating our capacity to think for ourselves.“
— Irshad Manji, libro The Trouble with Islam Today
Origine: The Trouble with Islam Today (2005), Ch. 2: Seventy Virgins?
„Our global responsibility now is not to determine who owns what identity, but to convey to future generations what we all owe each other.“
— Irshad Manji, libro The Trouble with Islam Today
Origine: The Trouble with Islam Today (2005), p. 203
„Many Muslim women will not consider themselves as inferior but wear a veil because they feel as dignified human beings. Because they want to protect themselves against staring and judging by men. If women are so dignified, why is it the burden of women to cover up, in order to protect themselves from the stares of men? Why can't be accepted from men to control their own instincts or animal behaviour? This is a question that I have never heard a satisfactory answer from a Muslim women.“
Muslims need critical thinking - Irshad Manji http://www.ifeminists.net/introduction/editorials/2004/0818verhofstadt.html August 18, 2004 (interview by Dirk Verhofstadt)
„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.“
Irshad Manji: Islam Needs Reformists, Not 'Moderates' http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748703992704576305412360432744 The Wall Street Journal (7 May 2011)