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Heretic - Why Islam Needs a Reformation Now (Paperback)
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Heretic - Why Islam Needs a Reformation Now (Paperback)
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You Save R79 (25%)
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Continuing her journey from a deeply religious Islamic upbringing
to a post at Harvard, the brilliant, charismatic and controversial
New York Times and Globe and Mail #1 bestselling author of Infidel
and Nomad makes a powerful plea for a Muslim Reformation as the
only way to end the horrors of terrorism, sectarian warfare and the
repression of women and minorities. Today, she argues, the world's
1.6 billion Muslims can be divided into a minority of extremists, a
majority of observant but peaceable Muslims and a few dissidents
who risk their lives by questioning their own religion. But there
is only one Islam and, as Hirsi Ali shows, there is no denying that
some of its key teachings-not least the duty to wage holy war-are
incompatible with the values of a free society. For centuries it
has seemed as if Islam is immune to change. But Hirsi Ali has come
to believe that a Muslim Reformation-a revision of Islamic doctrine
aimed at reconciling the religion with modernity-is now at hand,
and may even have begun. The Arab Spring may now seem like a
political failure. But its challenge to traditional authority
revealed a new readiness-not least by Muslim women-to think freely
and to speak out. Courageously challenging the jihadists, she
identifies five key amendments to Islamic doctrine that Muslims
have to make to bring their religion out of the seventh century and
into the twenty-first. And she calls on the Western world to end
its appeasement of the Islamists. "Islam is not a religion of
peace," she writes. It is the Muslim reformers who need our
backing, not the opponents of free speech. Interweaving her own
experiences, historical analogies and powerful examples from
contemporary Muslim societies and cultures, Heretic is not a call
to arms, but a passionate plea for peaceful change and a new era of
global toleration. In the wake of the Charlie Hebdo murders, with
jihadists killing thousands from Nigeria to Syria to Pakistan, this
book offers an answer to what is fast becoming the world's number
one problem.
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