...peace be upon her

A reprint of a Washington Times article from the Age. Noted author of www.muslim-refusnik.com is, to paraphrase the Wesleyan quadrilateral, a Secularist, not a Sunni, a Shi'a or a Sufi. And a woman.


Lighten up, fellow Muslims

Date: February 8 2006

Islam can take a joke, even a bad one, at the prophet's expense, writes Irrshad Manji.

At the World Economic Forum last month, I observed something revealing. In a session about the US religious right, a cartoonist satirised one of America's most influential Christian ministers, Pat Robertson. In the audience, chuckling with the rest of us, was a prominent British Muslim. But his smile disappeared the moment we were shown a cartoon that made fun of Muslim clerics.

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