{"id":1828428,"date":"2007-06-07T06:00:49","date_gmt":"2007-06-06T22:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stopchildexecutions.com\/scenewsarchive\/?p=1828428"},"modified":"2023-04-13T05:37:57","modified_gmt":"2023-04-13T05:37:57","slug":"irshad-manji-muslim-author-activist-asks-muslims-to-speak-out-against-child-executions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stopchildexecutions.com\/scenewsarchive\/2007\/06\/07\/irshad-manji-muslim-author-activist-asks-muslims-to-speak-out-against-child-executions\/","title":{"rendered":"Irshad Manji, Muslim author activist, asks Muslims to speak out against child executions"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Muslim writer and activist IRSHAD MANJI<\/strong> signed the petition to Stop Child Executions in Iran. In a letter to Nazanin Afshin Jam she wrote : “I’m attaching a “prayer<\/strong><\/a>” from the reform-minded Muslims of Project Ijtihad, asking all Muslims of conscience and compassion to speak out against children executions now<\/strong>.”<\/p>\n

Nazanin Afshin-Jam and SCE Campaign greatly appreciate Ms. Irashad Manji’s and project Ijtihad’s support of the campagin to stop child executions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
6304.<\/td>\nIrshad Manji<\/td>\nCanada<\/td>\nAuthor and Founder, Project Ijtihad<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

About Irshad Manji: <\/b> Irshad is a Canadian feminist Muslim, author, journalist, and activist. She is a well-known critic of radical Islam and orthodox interpretations of the Qur’an, calling herself a “Muslim refusenik”. The New York Times has dubbed Irshad Manji \u201cOsama Bin Laden\u2019s worst nightmare.\u201d She takes that as a compliment. Irshad is the best-selling author of The<\/em> The Trouble with Islam Today<\/em><\/a> : A Muslim\u2019s Call for Reform in Her Faith. The book has been published in 25 languages. In those countries that have banned her book, she is reaching readers by posting free translations in Arabic, Urdu, and Persian on her website at<\/em> http:\/\/www.muslim-refusenik.com<\/em><\/a>. Irshad Manji also maintains a<\/em> myspace<\/em><\/a> website. <\/em><\/p>\n

Irshad also travels the globe to lecture about the liberal reformation of Islam. Her audiences include Amnesty International, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the United Nations Press Corps, the Democratic Muslims of Denmark, the National Committee on American Foreign Policy, the International Women\u2019s Forum, the Swedish Defense Research Agency, the Pentagon, the Jean Jacques Rousseau Institute, and universities from Cambridge to Notre Dame. Currently, Irshad is a Senior Fellow with the European Foundation for Democracy. She writes columns that are distributed worldwide by the New York Times Syndicate. She is also making a feature film about Islam. Among the ideas it will showcase is \u201cijtihad,\u201d Islam\u2019s lost tradition of independent thinking. has appeared on numerous<\/em> television<\/em><\/a> networks worldwide. US PBS Television network recently broadcasted a documentary by Irshad Manji titled:<\/em> Faith without fear<\/em><\/a>.  <\/em><\/p>\n

As a social entrepreneur<\/a>, Irshad has launched Project Ijtihad, an initiative to develop the world\u2019s first leadership network for reform-minded Muslims. In that capacity, she was recently named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. Oprah Winfrey honored Irshad with the first annual Chutzpah Award for \u201caudacity, nerve, boldness and conviction.\u201d Ms. magazine chose Irshad as a \u201cFeminist for the 21st Century.\u201d Maclean\u2019s, Canada\u2019s national news magazine, selected her one of ten \u201cCanadians Who Make a Difference.\u201d And the Jakarta Post in Indonesia — the world\u2019s largest Muslim country — identified Irshad as one of three women creating a positive change in Islam today.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Muslim writer and activist IRSHAD MANJI<\/strong> signed the petition to Stop Child Executions in Iran. In a letter to Nazanin Afshin Jam she wrote : “I’m attaching a “prayer<\/strong><\/a>” from the reform-minded Muslims of Project Ijtihad, asking all Muslims of conscience and compassion to speak out against children executions now<\/strong>.”<\/p>\n

Nazanin Afshin-Jam and SCE Campaign greatly appreciate Ms. Irashad Manji’s and project Ijtihad’s support of the campagin to stop child executions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
6304.<\/td>\nIrshad Manji<\/td>\nCanada<\/td>\nAuthor and Founder, Project Ijtihad<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

About Irshad Manji: <\/b> Irshad is a Canadian feminist Muslim, author, journalist, and activist. She is a well-known critic of radical Islam and orthodox interpretations of the Qur’an, calling herself a “Muslim refusenik”. The New York Times has dubbed Irshad Manji \u201cOsama Bin Laden\u2019s worst nightmare.\u201d She takes that as a compliment. Irshad is the best-selling author of The<\/em> The Trouble with Islam Today<\/em><\/a> : A Muslim\u2019s Call for Reform in Her Faith. The book has been published in 25 languages. In those countries that have banned her book, she is reaching readers by posting free translations in Arabic, Urdu, and Persian on her website at<\/em> http:\/\/www.muslim-refusenik.com<\/em><\/a>. Irshad Manji also maintains a<\/em> myspace<\/em><\/a> website. <\/em><\/p>\n

Irshad also travels the globe to lecture about the liberal reformation of Islam. Her audiences include Amnesty International, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the United Nations Press Corps, the Democratic Muslims of Denmark, the National Committee on American Foreign Policy, the International Women\u2019s Forum, the Swedish Defense Research Agency, the Pentagon, the Jean Jacques Rousseau Institute, and universities from Cambridge to Notre Dame. Currently, Irshad is a Senior Fellow with the European Foundation for Democracy. She writes columns that are distributed worldwide by the New York Times Syndicate. She is also making a feature film about Islam. Among the ideas it will showcase is \u201cijtihad,\u201d Islam\u2019s lost tradition of independent thinking. has appeared on numerous<\/em> television<\/em><\/a> networks worldwide. US PBS Television network recently broadcasted a documentary by Irshad Manji titled:<\/em> Faith without fear<\/em><\/a>.  <\/em><\/p>\n

As a social entrepreneur<\/a>, Irshad has launched Project Ijtihad, an initiative to develop the world\u2019s first leadership network for reform-minded Muslims. In that capacity, she was recently named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. Oprah Winfrey honored Irshad with the first annual Chutzpah Award for \u201caudacity, nerve, boldness and conviction.\u201d Ms. magazine chose Irshad as a \u201cFeminist for the 21st Century.\u201d Maclean\u2019s, Canada\u2019s national news magazine, selected her one of ten \u201cCanadians Who Make a Difference.\u201d And the Jakarta Post in Indonesia — the world\u2019s largest Muslim country — identified Irshad as one of three women creating a positive change in Islam today.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[3,4,14],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stopchildexecutions.com\/scenewsarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1828428"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stopchildexecutions.com\/scenewsarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stopchildexecutions.com\/scenewsarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stopchildexecutions.com\/scenewsarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stopchildexecutions.com\/scenewsarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1828428"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stopchildexecutions.com\/scenewsarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1828428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5196402,"href":"https:\/\/www.stopchildexecutions.com\/scenewsarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1828428\/revisions\/5196402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stopchildexecutions.com\/scenewsarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1828428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stopchildexecutions.com\/scenewsarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1828428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stopchildexecutions.com\/scenewsarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1828428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}