A moderate Muslim longs for a more spiritual faith
Muslims are self-secure enough to face hard truths about Islam, asserts Toronto’s Tarek Fatah.
He had better hope so. Many other authors inviting Muslims to critically examine their religion have had to fear for their lives.
Irshad Manji, formerly of Toronto, now of New York, and author of The Trouble with Islam, travels with a bodyguard. Somali-born Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the Dutch author of Infidel, travels with two.
Robert Spencer, American author of such works as The Truth about Muhammad, writes that he “lives in a secure, undisclosed location.”
Fatah, too, has received death threats over the years, to the point where he resigned two years ago as communications director for the Muslim Canadian Congress in an effort to lower his profile.
