it would be very hard to take this book any seriously because it has been written by someone who has been raised by an abusive father who unfortunately was a Muslim and thus the girl stereotyped the world of Muslims to be such and a more better reason for her to be a lesbian, because the only man she knew turned out to be such.. what a reason, what a logic and what a wit! i must say. the next pages of the book go on to talk about how great and and how democratic the west is and how low her religion was (the trouble is, she has no sense to distinguish between what "Islam" is and what "Muslims around her" were; and thus she rationalizes that with all of the Muslims and remind us that time and again.) i had to stop after every minute or so and rethink if this "Islam" she's talking the hell about, exists within us? no, seriously it didn't. but it was the inner frustration that she had to take out because that was what she had been faced with and thus she assumed that the whole lot of Muslims are such.
coming towards her series of accusations where she (considering herself the scholar and a great journalist that she is)provides two different verses of Quran and compares them and finally concludes that far from being perfect, this book is amazingly confused within itself and thus infers that how would it even teach its followers how to lead. so the clearest, simplest and the easiest answer to this is that Quran talks in context. Quran is a deep but increasingly simple book. all you need to do is read it within context and you'll know why it says something in one verse and the other in another. it is thus not about Quran saying different things but us getting different things out of it, which unfortunately the dear dimwitted author misses..
i'll keep adding her little flaws that she has missed unfortunately, although being such a reporter that she keeps us reminding time and again, she should not! and the most important thing that miss Manji has missed is that she herself lacks the proper knowledge and expertise on the Holy book that she lays her accusations upon. and she must know as a journalist that you have no right to attack upon someone/thing until you have a firm and complete background of it!
i haven't finished the book yet but the last comment i'll make up till yet is that this attempt of writing is by someone who is extremely frustrated by her part of world where Muslims live and at the same time, extremely inspired by "that" part of west where she lives and her book also revolves around that part, which she unmistakably has thought to be the story of the world.. (by the way, a nice move to fame i must say and that too provided by the all dear West!)