The Gender Based Lie!

This book, The Gender Based Lie, is an extremely important contribution to the debates and the policy reform work on gender based violence in the context of Islam. It weaves together critical analysis of the foundation of gender disparity, personal narratives of some of it's victims, male and female, and sensitive, but thought provoking support against gender based violence. The finished product is one which should cause any of its readers to do exactly what the Qu'ran so often reminds us to do: think and reflect.

Although its analysis is thorough, complex and well researched, it is written with fluid language and in a format easily accessible to community workers, educated readers, policy makers and regular believers from a broad cross section of our societies. The arguments waged in support of its basic premise, challenged the wide spread practices of gender based violence.

This work is impeccably done, worthy of our attention and sure to become part of the solution: raising our societies toward the highest principles and ideals already fundamental to Islam.