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Just heard Irshad talk and I wanted to write something right away while ’tis all fresh in my mind. She is a very courageous women and a moving speaker. According to Irshad ‘Courage is not the absence of fear, courage is knowing that some things are more important then fear, ie the need to inquire’. She was courageous enough to question the teachings of Islam and share her thoughts with people. She was able to study on her own terms and through the help of her local public libraries she has learned and shared her Islam faith. Her inquiry helped to strengthen her faith. 

She has taken a lot of heat for the book for near and far and even once compared to be worse then Osam bin Laden. “Really!” She ended her talk by referring to something the Prophet Mohammed said ‘the ink of the scholar is more valuable then the blood of the martyr.

Thanks Irshad. Your mom was right “You go girl!”

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