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Why Islam Needs a Reformation Now
Harper
April 2015
On Sale: March 24, 2015
288 pages
ISBN: 0062333933
EAN: 9780062333933
Kindle: B00FVW8MH0
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Continuing her journey from a deeply religious Islamic
upbringing to a post at Harvard, the brilliant, charismatic
and controversial New York Times and Globe and Mail #1
bestselling author of Infidel and Nomad makes a powerful
plea for a Muslim Reformation as the only way to end the
horrors of terrorism, sectarian warfare and the repression
of women and minorities. Today, she argues, the world’s 1.6 billion Muslims can be
divided into a minority of extremists, a majority of
observant but peaceable Muslims and a few dissidents who
risk their lives by questioning their own religion. But
there is only one Islam and, as Hirsi Ali shows, there is no
denying that some of its key teachings—not least the duty to
wage holy war—are incompatible with the values of a free
society. For centuries it has seemed as if Islam is immune to change.
But Hirsi Ali has come to believe that a Muslim
Reformation—a revision of Islamic doctrine aimed at
reconciling the religion with modernity—is now at hand, and
may even have begun. The Arab Spring may now seem like a
political failure. But its challenge to traditional
authority revealed a new readiness—not least by Muslim
women—to think freely and to speak out. Courageously challenging the jihadists, she identifies five
key amendments to Islamic doctrine that Muslims have to make
to bring their religion out of the seventh century and into
the twenty-first. And she calls on the Western world to end
its appeasement of the Islamists. “Islam is not a religion
of peace,” she writes. It is the Muslim reformers who need
our backing, not the opponents of free speech. Interweaving her own experiences, historical analogies and
powerful examples from contemporary Muslim societies and
cultures, Heretic is not a call to arms, but a passionate
plea for peaceful change and a new era of global toleration.
In the wake of the Charlie Hebdo murders, with jihadists
killing thousands from Nigeria to Syria to Pakistan, this
book offers an answer to what is fast becoming the world’s
number one problem.
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