Canadian Muslim writer questions received Islam

This is a fascinating article about what is and isn't going on in Islam in the west today. The thing that particualry interested me and lifted this article above the general writing about dissident Muslims was the part played by a Christian Church in this woman's life.
"Manji was 4 when her father put her in a free baby-sitting service at Rose of Sharon Baptist Church. She said her stream of questions about Jesus were met with encouraging smiles by the woman who supervised the Bible study.
'She made me believe my questions were worth asking,' Manji writes. 'Maybe that's what motivated me, at age 8, to win the Most Promising Christian of the Year award.' The irony held no amusement for her father. He moved her from the church to the madrassa, the mosque's religious school, where she spent every Saturday from age 9 to 14. Her questions were no longer met with smiles and encouragement, however, and the library was off-limits to girls."
Of course we all know that the woman at that church was probably a godsend, that many churches would not be able to find someone so supportive of questioning, but nevertheless it is heartening. It really does seem to me that one of the differences between good religion and bad religion is precisely on this issue of how we react to questions. Those on the side of freedom of conscience and non-fascist religion have to -in the end- come down on the side of recognising that fair and genuine questions have to be allowed and taken seriously, it has a sense of security in the idea that all truth is God's truth. 'Fascist' religion is about imposing a view and therefore not allowing questioning out of insecurity or laziness or seeing the threat to established power sturctures.
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