I'm always trying to look for the defiant. Who's against the grain. Within Islam, we need to give support to those trying to change it from within. We can fight from the outside, but we also need to support those who fight from the inside.


"Every faith has it's share of literalists... But only within Islam is literalisim fast becoming mainstream. We Muslims, even here in the West, are routinely raised to believe that the Koran is the final and therefore perfect manifesto of God's will... This is dangerous, because when abuse happens under the banner of faith as it is todday, most Muslims have no clue how to debate, dissent, revise or reform... because we have never been introduced to the possibility, let alone the virtue, of asking questions..."

~Irshad Manji

http://www.irshadmanji.com/

And a woman, thank God no less, with the clarity of reason.