Introduction: One Islam, Three Sets of Muslims 1
Chapter 1 The Story of a Heretic: My Journey Away from Islam 29
Chapter 2 Why Has There Been No Muslim Reformation? 53
Chapter 3 Muhammad and the Qur'an: How Unquestioning Reverence for the Prophet and His Book Obstructs Reform 77
Chapter 4 Those Who Love Death: Islam's Fatal Focus on the Afterlife 107
Chapter 5 Shackled by Sharia: How Islam's Harsh Religious Code Keeps Muslims Stuck in the Seventh Century 129
Chapter 6 Social Control Begins at Home: How the Injunction to Command Right and Forbid Wrong Keeps Muslims in Line 153
Chapter 7 Jihad: Why the Call for Holy War Is a Charter for Terror 173
Chapter 8 The Twilight of Tolerance 207
Conclusion The Muslim Reformation 223
Appendix: Muslim Dissidents and Reformers 239
Notes 251