An Islamic Reformer Who Can't Be Silenced

by Paul Berman
The New Republic
May 12, 2012

https://www.legal-project.org/2547/an-islamic-reformer-who-cant-be-silenced

Excerpt:

In the April 5 edition of The New Republic I published an essay called "The Thought Police" on Islamist campaigns to suppress independent thinking, as described in a Hudson Institute human rights report by Paul Marshall and Nina Shea. My essay listed a great number of reformers from Muslim backgrounds who have come under threat or have actually been attacked, with the names drawn largely from Marshall and Shea's study. I mentioned in passing that Irshad Manji, a Muslim writer from Vancouver, Canada, had been threatened. Now I have to report that Irshad Manji is all right, but she has, in fact, come under attack in Jakarta, Indonesia, and not everyone around her is all right.

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