Paul Smith re "The trouble with Islam".Paula Adamick uses a lesbian Muslim in her June 2004 Catholic Insight column. Irshad Manji Irshad Manji (born 1968) is a Canadian Muslim feminist, 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". will never be accepted by the Muslim religion because, even though homosexuality is to some extent accepted by Muslims, a woman causing trouble is not, and never will be. Ms. Manji can make as many true statements as she wants, but the very fact that her intent is to rebel against her "miserable Muslim family in a miserable culture where men seemed incapable of using the 'L' word," will undo To restore the last editing operation that has taken place. For example, if a segment of text has been deleted or changed, performing an undo will restore the original text. Programs may have several levels of undo, including being able to reconstruct the original data for all edits all her efforts. There will never be a consensus among Muslims that homosexuality is for everyone, because homosexuality is not for anyone. Homosexuality does not bring stability to the individual person, or to the family, or to the world at large. Ms. Irshad Manji is not interested in the Muslim religion; she only wants to vent her frustrations over her inability to change her upbringing. Even if Irshad Manji could make all the people in her family see it her way, she would only be hurting herself, by supposedly getting rid of her discontent. In reality she would be even worse off, because she would consider her arguments as true, but her nature will continue to tell her they are not. I don't agree with Paula Adamick infuriating some Muslims by using a woman who speaks some truth but ultimately is ranting Ranting See also Anger, Exasperation, Irascibility. Boiler, Boanerges a zealous, raving preacher. [Br. Lit. . Saskatoon Saskatoon (săskət  n`), city (1991 pop. 186,058), S central Sask., Canada, on the South Saskatchewan River. , SK Paula Adamick replies: Who's ranting? I included Irshad Manji's sexual orientation sexual orientation n. The direction of one's sexual interest toward members of the same, opposite, or both sexes, especially a direction seen to be dictated by physiologic rather than sociologic forces. because I knew that, if I excluded it, an astute reader would raise it anyway as if to suggest that Ms Manji's lesbianism lesbianism: see homosexuality. lesbianism also called sapphism or female homosexuality, the quality or state of intense emotional and usually erotic attraction of a woman to another woman. automatically prevented her from telling the truth and/or negated her arguments. It may be as Mr. Smith asserts that Ms. Manji will not be taken seriously by Muslims. That does not make her message less true or irrelevant. The truth of her carefully researched and considered views will have an effect, as the truth always does. Which is precisely why I find her book so important. |
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