If you read the last chapter in Ali’s book, The Atheist Muslim, you’ll see that Ali fully acknowledges that religion is a powerfully comforting force in the death-is-painful-to-accept department. Ali never “blames survivors” nor does Ali suggest that his readers do, nor does Ali deny that religion’s most comforting narrative (the eternal afterlife) is well, emotionally comforting.
Let’s take for example, Professor Al-Solaylee’s commentary on the book and the comforting narrative of an afterlife:Īs bombs rain down on Syria and Yemen, can we blame survivors for clinging to their belief in an eternal afterlife, one of religion’s more comforting narratives? I am however, going to highlight a couple of assertions that he has made to illustrate how some of the liberal left has lost the plot when it comes to the topic of Islam. I’m not going to do a full critique of Professor Al-Solaylee’s review. You see, I too have just finished reading the book. Several parts of the book review left me puzzled.
Rizvi’s The Atheist Muslim for the Globe and Mail. Professor Kamal Al-Solaylee wrote a book review of Ali A.
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