Manji scorches fatwa council's anti-Bersih edict

Controversial Uganda-born Canadian writer Irshad Manji strike out during sure muftis as well as clerics, including those in Malaysia's National Fatwa Council, which she pronounced have been perplexing to levy their own mores as well as dogma upon a populace.

"Muftis, imams as well as clerics of assorted stripes love to tell us what we have been to believe; in a course of telling us this, they also want us to adopt a sold identity.

"What they will never tell us is which they expect us to adopt their identity," pronounced a 44-year-old New York University (NYU) highbrow in an exclusive talk withMalaysiakiniin Kuala Lumpur yesterday.

She was responding to a subject upon a recent National Fatwa Council edict ominous Muslims from taking partial in sure demonstrations, quite targeting a Bersih 3.0 pro-electoral remodel rall! y.

Manji argued which "good believers" cannot be approaching to uncritically submit to a eremite scholars without subject as a scholars themselves as well have been humans as well as conjunction perfect nor boundless as Allah is.

"Here's a little violation news for these muftis. You're not God. There is usually a single God as well as which job is not vacant.

"Put all your fatwas out as we wish, but your fatwas do not reason boundless authority, as well as conjunction do you," pronounced a successful writer as well as film-maker.

Manji believes which a Quran - which she posits is a usually boundless document as well as sole running light of a conviction - instead encourages Muslims not usually to subject but to find out a truth upon their own as well as consider for themselves.

Such, she claimed, was a convention prevalent in a heyday of Islamic civilised world until a slide into our stream incident where mullahs as well as ulamas explain to know everything as well as dictate all to a public which is approaching to obey without question.

'They don't have humility'

"I consider which if some-more as well as some-more Muslims assimilate which there is a disproportion in between a ulama as well as Allah - just as we realised during a age of 14 which there is a disproportion in between a madrasah as well as Allah - we would be some-more willing to give ourselves a permission to do exactly what a Quran asks of us, which is to consider for ourselves in order to lower our conviction as well as realize a piety which these fatwa-flinging mullah obviously don't have," argued a feisty Islamic reformist.

Earlier this month, a National Fatwa Council spoken which it isharam(not permissible) for Muslims to participate in any entertainment or demonstration which is unproductive as well as is against a law or causes disturbances in a country.

Its chairperson Abdul Shukor Husin pronounced a legislature noticed severely this emanate as a little Muslims had formerly resorted to rioting during street demonstrations.

The council's decision, however, was met with stringent critique from PAS spiritual personality Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat, wholambastedthat a body for not seeking during a emanate clearly, while others quoted influential Egyptian Islamic clergy Yusuf al Qaradawi, who maintains which rallies or actions to quarrel against restraint isencouragedin Islam.

Manji is in Malaysia to launch a Malay translation of her latest book 'Allah, Liberty & Love'. However, her events as well as multiform speaking engagements had to becancelledbecause of "security concerns", protest notes as well as purported "pressure" from a authorities.

PAS - which ironically agree with Manji's critique of a fatwa legislature upon Bersih 3.0 - as well as multiform regressive Muslim NGOs havespoken outagainst her participation in Malaysia, claiming which her really liberal position upon Islam is dangerous to a conviction of local Muslims.

Her initial book, a general bestseller 'The Trouble with Islam Today: A Muslim's Call for Reform in Her Faith' has been banned in Malaysia.

As clear in her books as well as an Emmy-nominated PBS film, 'Faith Without Fear', her work often challenges accepted notions in Islam, in a idea which education as well as a leisure to consider is peerless as well as not a indoctrination, which she believes is ordinarily practised in many eremite teachings.

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