Irshad Manji is the internationally best-selling author of “The Trouble with Islam Today: A Muslim’s Call for Reform in her Faith”.  Through a new lens, this questioning Muslim takes a journey to reconcile her faith in Allah with her love of freedom.  Along the way, she reveals the personal risks — emotional and physical — that come with such an urgent mission.  The result is FAITH WITHOUT FEAR.

Trekking through the Arabian Peninsula, Manji speaks with Osama bin Laden’s former bodyguard, who explains why he’s willing to turn his young son into a martyr.  She also engages a California convert to Islam who now lives in Yemen and says that by covering her body and face, she’s exercising American-style freedom of religion. But is it really freedom if you’ll be punished for not covering? Manji meets one Yemeni woman who faces a steep price for rejecting the rules. Through them, Manji discovers what she thinks has corrupted a religion of justice to become an ideology of fear. She can relate: Her own home has bullet-proof windows. The New York Times has dubbed Irshad Manji “Osama Bin Laden’s worst nightmare.” And it is proving to be true.

Irshad’s work has been published internationally, including in Pakistan, Turkey, India and Lebanon. In FAITH WITHOUT FEAR she journeys across the Middle East, Europe, Canada and North America in her quest to awaken the Muslims through the call of dialogue and the power of reason… “IJTIHAD”. We caught up with her recently at VOA studios in Washington DC to find out more about her film and the difficult challenges as well as solutions it has to offer.

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For more on Irshad and Ijtihad go to www.irshadmanji.com