Editing Irshad Manji (section)

{{short description|Canadian educator (born 1968)}}
{{Use Canadian English|date=September 2019}}
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{{Infobox person <!-- for more information see [[:Template:Infobox writer/doc]] -->
| name               = Irshad Manji
| image              = Irshad Manji 2012 (cropped).png
| caption            = Manji in 2012
| birth_place        = near [[Kampala]], [[Uganda]]
| birth_date         = {{Birth year and age|1968}}
| nationality        = Canadian
| education          = [[University of British Columbia]]
| occupation         = Educator, author and founder of the Moral Courage Project
| years_active       = 1990–present
| awards             = [[Honorary Doctorate]], [[University of Puget Sound]] <br />Honorary Doctorate, [[Bishop's University]]<br /> [[Young Global Leader]], [[World Economic Forum]]<br />Ethical Humanist Award, [[New York Society for Ethical Culture]]
| website            = {{URL|https://irshadmanji.com/}}
}}
'''Irshad Manji''' (born 1968) is a Ugandan-born Canadian educator. She is the author of ''[[The Trouble with Islam Today]]'' (2004) and ''Allah, Liberty and Love'' (2011), both of which have been banned in several Muslim countries.<ref name="Bedell">{{cite news|last=Bedell|first=Geraldine|date=2 August 2008|title=Interview: 'I cringed when they compared me to Martin Luther'|newspaper=[[The Guardian]]|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/aug/03/women|access-date=22 July 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.hrw.org/news/2012/05/31/malaysia-reverse-book-ban|title=Malaysia: Reverse Book Ban|date=31 May 2012|website=Human Rights Watch|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180912111414/https://www.hrw.org/news/2012/05/31/malaysia-reverse-book-ban|archive-date=12 September 2018|access-date=22 July 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/05/19/215087.html|title=Muslim gay Canadian launches book in Malaysia despite 'ban'|date=19 May 2012|periodical=Al Arabiya News|access-date=16 July 2017|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170801195549/https://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/05/19/215087.html|archive-date=1 August 2017|agency=AFP}}</ref> She also produced a [[Public Broadcasting Service|PBS]] documentary in the ''[[America at a Crossroads]]'' series, titled ''Faith Without Fear'', which was nominated for an [[Emmy Award]] in 2008.<ref name="Bedell" /><ref name="Emmy">{{Cite web|date=15 July 2008|title=Nominees for the 29th Annual News & Documentary Emmy Awards Announced by the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences|url=http://emmyonline.com/news_29th_nominations|access-date=19 September 2019|website=Emmy Online|language=en-US|archive-date=23 July 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190723023527/http://emmyonline.com/news_29th_nominations|url-status=dead}}</ref> A former journalist and television presenter, Manji is an advocate of a [[Liberalism and progressivism in the Muslim world#Reform|reformist interpretation of Islam]] and a critic of [[Literalistic interpretation of Islam|literalist interpretations]] of the [[Qur'an]].{{Citation needed|date=May 2022}}

Her latest book, ''Don't Label Me'' (2019), proposes methods on how to heal political, racial, and cultural divides. The ideas in the book are related to the Moral Courage Project, which Manji founded at [[New York University]] in 2008 and expanded to the [[University of Southern California]] (USC) in 2016, when she was a senior fellow at the [[Annenberg Center on Communication Leadership & Policy]].<ref name="USC Annenberg">{{cite web|title=Irshad Manji|url=https://communicationleadership.usc.edu/fellows/senior/irshad-manji/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200222222806/https://communicationleadership.usc.edu/fellows/senior/irshad-manji/|archive-date=22 February 2020|access-date=22 July 2017|website=Center on Communication Leadership & Policy|publisher=USC Annenberg}}</ref> After leaving USC, she founded Moral Courage College with the goal of teaching "young people how to engage honestly about polarizing issues rather than shaming or canceling each other".<ref>{{Cite web|last=Manji|first=Irshad|date=16 August 2020|title=Hating the "Hateful"|url=https://www.persuasion.community/p/hating-the-hateful|access-date=1 September 2020|website=Persuasion}}</ref> Manji lectures on these themes as a senior research fellow with the Oxford Initiative for Global Ethics and Human Rights.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Fellows|url=https://www.oxfordglobalethics.org/fellows|access-date=1 September 2020|website=Oxford Initiative for Global Ethics and Human Rights|language=en-US}}</ref>