Friday, July 15
Chuck Colson on Irshad Manji
"Manji raises subjects that you normally don't bring up in polite Islamic circles. Interestingly enough, she credits evangelical Christianity for some of her willingness to do this. A few years after her family immigrated to Canada, her parents left her at a local Baptist church while they worked.
"The South Asian who taught her Bible class made Manji believe that '[her] questions were worth asking.' So, she asked more --so many, in fact, that she won 'Most Promising Christian of the Year' award when she was eight. That's when her father 'plucked' her out of the church school and enrolled her at a madrassa."
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Here's Manji's post-7/7 op-ed in the Globe & Mail.
"The South Asian who taught her Bible class made Manji believe that '[her] questions were worth asking.' So, she asked more --so many, in fact, that she won 'Most Promising Christian of the Year' award when she was eight. That's when her father 'plucked' her out of the church school and enrolled her at a madrassa."
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Here's Manji's post-7/7 op-ed in the Globe & Mail.
