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== Early life and education == Manji was born in 1968 near [[Kampala]], [[Uganda]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/canada-150-irshad-manji-challenging-muslim-doctrine|title=Canada 150: Irshad Manji, challenging Muslim doctrine|last=Hume|first=Stephen|date=11 March 2017|website=Vancouver Sun|language=en|access-date=28 March 2019}}</ref> Her mother is of [[Egyptian people|Egyptian]] descent and her father of [[India]]n heritage.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/03/opinion/brave-young-and-muslim.html|title=Brave, Young and Muslim|last=Friedman|first=Thomas L.|date=3 March 2005|work=The New York Times|access-date=28 March 2019|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> When [[Idi Amin]] ordered the [[Expulsion of Asians from Uganda|expulsion of Asians]] and other non-Africans from Uganda in the early 1970s,<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4tY_Rk0BTGMC&pg=PA93|title=Muslim Women Reformers: Inspiring Voices Against Oppression|last=Lichter|first=Ida|date=2009|publisher=Prometheus Books|isbn=978-1-61592-502-5|pages=93|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/04/international/americas/04FPRO.html|title=An Unlikely Promoter of an Islamic Reformation|last=Krauss|first=Clifford|date=4 October 2003|work=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=11 July 2006}}</ref> Manji and her family came to [[Canada]] as refugees when she was four years old.<ref name="Bedell" /><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702303918204577446170153730122|title=Lady Gaga Versus Global Jihad|last=Stephens|first=Bret|date=4 June 2012|work=The Wall Street Journal|access-date=19 September 2019|language=en-US|issn=0099-9660}}</ref> They settled in [[Richmond, British Columbia]], near [[Vancouver]].<ref name="Todd">{{cite news|url=https://vancouversun.com/news/staff-blogs/the-trouble-with-irshad-manji|title=The Trouble with Irshad Manji|last=Todd|first=Douglas|date=13 May 2008|newspaper=[[Vancouver Sun]]|access-date=22 July 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|author=Barry Gewen|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/27/weekinreview/27gewen.html|title=Muslim Rebel Sisters: At Odds With Islam and Each Other|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=27 April 2008|access-date=22 July 2017}}</ref> Manji attended secular public schools and, every Saturday, a religious school ([[madrasa]]). Manji says that, at 14 years old, she was expelled from the madrasa for asking too many questions.<ref name="Popescu">{{cite journal|last=Popescu|first=Lucy|date=12 October 2011|title=Irshad Manji|url=https://literaryreview.co.uk/irshad-manji|journal=Literary Review|issue=400|access-date=22 July 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Wente|first=Margaret|url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/the-muslim-refusenik/article772583/|title=The Muslim refusenik|newspaper=[[The Globe and Mail]]|access-date=22 July 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/canada-150-irshad-manji-challenging-muslim-doctrine|title=Canada 150: Irshad Manji, challenging Muslim doctrine|author=Stephen Hume|newspaper=[[Vancouver Sun]]|access-date=22 July 2017}}</ref> In 1990, Manji earned a [[Honours degree#Canada|bachelor's degree with honours]] in the [[history of ideas]] from the [[University of British Columbia]], and won the [[Governor General's Academic Medal]] for top humanities graduate.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.fondationtrudeau.ca/en/community/irshad-manji|title=Irshad Manji|website=Fondationtrudeau.ca|access-date=22 July 2017|archive-date=4 November 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171104065136/http://www.fondationtrudeau.ca/en/community/irshad-manji|url-status=dead}}</ref> In 2002, Manji became writer-in-residence at the [[University of Toronto]]'s [[Hart House (University of Toronto)|Hart House]], from where she began writing ''[[The Trouble with Islam Today]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://magazine.utoronto.ca/life-on-campus/trudeau-foundation-ken-wiwa-irshad-manji/|title=Trudeau Foundation Names Mentors|last=Rundle|first=Lisa|date=Spring 2005|website=U of T Magazine|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160616183815/http://magazine.utoronto.ca/life-on-campus/trudeau-foundation-ken-wiwa-irshad-manji/|archive-date=16 June 2016|access-date=10 July 2017}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/irshad-manji-challenges-islam|title=Irshad Manji Challenges Islam|last=Fennell|first=Tom|date=15 October 2003|website=The Canadian Encyclopedia|access-date=19 September 2019}}</ref> She was a visiting fellow with the International Security Studies program at [[Yale University]] in 2006<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/freespeech-irshad-manji/|title=freeSpeech: Irshad Manji|last=McNamara|first=Melissa|date=18 September 2006|website=[[CBS News]]|access-date=22 July 2017}}</ref> and was a senior fellow with the Brussels-based [[European Foundation for Democracy]] from 2006 to 2012.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.gmfus.org/events/reconciling-islam-freedom|title=Reconciling Islam with Freedom|date=14 May 2007|website=The German Marshall Fund of the United States|language=en|access-date=19 September 2019|archive-date=12 December 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191212223356/http://www.gmfus.org/events/reconciling-islam-freedom|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite magazine|url=https://newrepublic.com/article/103301/islam-censorship-efd-manji-suppression|title=An Islamic Reformer Who Can't Be Silenced|last=Berman|first=Paul|date=12 May 2012|magazine=The New Republic|access-date=19 September 2019|issn=0028-6583}}</ref>
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