Re: Pakistan's reaction on Rushdie knighthood (merged)
Exactly....
A couple of years back in my University, Irshad Manji came for a speech after releasing her book, "the trouble with Islam".
Anyways, a lot of guys from MSA were all huffing and puffing that they are going to destroy Irshad Manji in the Q&A session.
All of them lost every single argument.
We need intellectuals in our societies who can openly challenge these people. The best way to protest against people like Salman Rushdie or Irshad Manji is to educate yourself in Islam and philosophy and debate them and defeat them there.
Rioting, burning effigies, uttering death threats, threatening suicide attacks only makes look like intolerant savages.
And people wonder why there is Islamaphobia in the world.
I highly esteem Irshad Manji , an example of an educated moderate , modern muslim who questions issues and social-religious dogma in a modern society where civility, humanity and tolerance is still being shackled and hindered by the so-called interpreters of and conversationalists with 'god'.