Ibn Warraq is the highly acclaimed author of Why I Am Not a Muslim, Virgins? What Virgins?, and Defending the West. He is also the editor of The Origins of the Koran, What the Koran Really Says, Leaving Islam, The Quest for the Historical Muhammad, and Which Koran?.
"My favorite book on Islam is the rationalist critique Why I Am Not
a Muslim."
- Christopher Hitchens in The Atlantic Monthly ". . . a courageous
and prophethic call to value and protect human rights, especially
the rights of women."
- National Catholic Reporter "The problem with a book such as this
is that it will most likely never reach those most in need of it.
How many libraries will stock it, or dare stock it if they knew its
contents?"
-The New Humanist ". . . transcends The Satanic Verses in terms of
sacrilege. Where Rushdie offered an elusive critique of Islam in an
airy tale of magical realism, Ibn Warraq brings a scholarly
sledgehammer to the task of demolishing Islam. Such an act,
especially for an author of Muslim birth, is so incendiary that the
author must write under a pseudonym; not to do so would be an act
of suicide"
- The Weekly Standard " . . . a completely compelling case for the
conclusion that Islam is flatly incompatible with the establishment
and maintenance of the equal individual rights and liberties of a
liberal, democratic, secular state."
- Salisbury Review "Ibn Warraq has done for Islam what Bertrand
Russell did for Christianity, but at much greater personal risk. .
. . His [fate] would be that of Salman Rushdie's were he to reveal
his true name rather than the pseudonym he uses. This book is must
reading for all who would understand the possibilities and the
dangers of affirming multi-culturalism in today's world."
-The Human Quest "At long last a writer has risen to the challenge
posed by this religion of compulsion. He has put together in one
book all the objectionable rules of Islam, and has made it into one
of the best books about Islam that I have seen in many years. We
must be extremely grateful to Ibn Warraq for his revealing
book."
- Humanist in Canada
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