The original article was posted on another thread, I figured a counter view was due 
http://report.ca/archive/report/20020610/p01i020610f.html
by Peter Stock
IRSHAD Manji is an attractive young Ontario woman of Muslim heritage who loves to talk about society’s intolerance. One of her favourite targets is the Canadian Islamic Congress (CIC), which is often called upon to speak on behalf of the country’s 252,000 Muslims *But while Ms. Manji poses as an Islamic reformer, she appears to have an agenda that is anything but tolerant. *
In a May 8 National Post column entitled, “Canada’s Muslims must drop old prejudices,” Ms. Manji writes that many Muslims “choose to be stuck in patterns of self-pity,” and need to be freed “from the enfeebling habits of victim-hood.” She offers no evidence for either criticism, but is certain the CIC will not support her efforts for emancipation.
Instead, Ms. Manji believes the Muslim Canadian Congress (MCC), a group recently started by a few of her friends, may solve the problems she describes. “Here’s a group that interprets Islam as a progressive, liberal, pluralistic and democratic religion,” she enthuses. She adds, “If the [Muslim] teens and twenty-somethings disclosing their religious struggles to me are at all representative, these kids could enter Canada’s mosques as honest, curious and intellectually innovative imams.”
**Understandably, CIC vice-president Wahida Valiente believes Ms. Manji is not an authentic voice for Islam. “She doesn’t know Islamic history, and she only has the most basic knowledge of the faith,” Mrs. Valiente says. As for Ms. Manji’s hostility to the CIC, “she brings in her anti-Islamic views because she feels rejected by mainstream Islam.” After all, says Mrs. Valiente, “the Koran clearly states that sexual relations are between men and women.” **
**Mrs. Valiente suspects the Post published Ms. Manji’s article because it wanted to appear tolerant. If so, the plan backfired. “If they truly wanted to be multicultural, they should occasionally publish some of the items we send to them,” she says. (Last December, a CIC study of nine Canadian newspapers ranked the Post as “worst by far in its persistent use of anti-Islam terminology.”) **
*Ultimately, it can be said that groups pressing religions to liberalize in the name of pluralism are actually working to eliminate the truly pluralistic and replace it with a single, politically correct viewpoint. “What we are seeing in Canadian society,” observes Iain Benson, senior fellow at the Institute for Cultural Renewal, “is an attempt to force one viewpoint on all contested issues.” *