Month: August 2010
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News and Analysis (8/20/10)
A 56-year-old from Brooklyn says outsiders propagandizing over the Park51 have “nothing to do with New York and they don’t care about New York.” Even some locals opposed to the center agree that people like Palin and Gingerich “until very recently, didn’t seem interested in New York at all” : Mosque Debate: New Yorkers Take…
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News and Analysis (8/19/10)
Cato Institute Vice President Gene Healy asks why “zoning issues in lower Manhattan” should be itemized on the top of the national agenda: ‘Mosque’ Debate Is a Red Herring (Cato) “Israeli investigations still fall far short of being thorough and impartial, while Hamas appears to have done nothing at all to investigate alleged violations,” —…
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The Narrative of David and Uriah: An Examination of Selected Classical Exegetes
NOTES FROM THE IIIT CONFERENCE ON APPROACHING THE QUR’AN AND SUNNAH #16 [This is the sixteenth in a series of my notes on the International Institute of Islamic Thought conference on approaching the Qur’an and Sunnah held in Herndon, VA. These notes are raw material for an edited report I will write on the conference…
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Exploring the Different Notions of Sunnah and its Relationship to the Qur’an Among Contemporary Muslims
NOTES FROM THE IIIT CONFERENCE ON APPROACHING THE QUR’AN AND SUNNAH #15 [This is the fifteenth in a series of my notes on the International Institute of Islamic Thought conference on approaching the Qur’an and Sunnah held in Herndon, VA. These notes are raw material for an edited report I will write on the conference…
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News and Analysis (8/18/10)
Regulations restricting farmers from assisting Muslim customers from slaughtering animals have unintended — and undesirable — consequences: Business Caters to Muslim Immigrants Seeking to Fulfill Ritual Animal Sacrifices (Washington Post) Muslim Public Affairs Council, Washington office Director Haris Tarin tells his father’s story of immigration from Afghanistan to “the America he fell in love with”:…
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News and Analysis (8/17/10)
“Men like Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf should be embraced as vital allies, and we should have only contempt for those who, through ignorance or political calculation, attempt to conflate them with the extremists”: The Muslims in the Middle (New York Times) “Allowing the Muslim community center to be built where it is being proposed represents…
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IIIT’s Islamic Reform Mission
NOTES FROM THE IIIT CONFERENCE ON APPROACHING THE QUR’AN AND SUNNAH #14 [This is the fourteenth in a series of my notes on the International Institute of Islamic Thought conference on approaching the Qur’an and Sunnah held in Herndon, VA. These notes are raw material for an edited report I will write on the conference…
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News and Analysis (8/16/10)
Polling shows that despite 60 percent of Americans think the construction of the Muslim community center is wrong, 60 percent of Americans also think that the Muslim group has the right to build the mosque if it chooses: Should President Obama Have Commented on the Ground Zero Mosque Plan? (abc News) Social networking website Facebook …
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Contextualizing the Common Word—Dialogue or Conflict?
NOTES FROM THE IIIT CONFERENCE ON APPROACHING THE QUR’AN AND SUNNAH #13 [This is the thirteenth in a series of my notes on the International Institute of Islamic Thought conference on approaching the Qur’an and Sunnah held in Herndon, VA. These notes are raw material for an edited report I will write on the conference…
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Methodological Considerations Regarding Approaching the Qur’an & the Sunna in the Context of Contemporary Life
NOTES FROM THE IIIT CONFERENCE ON APPROACHING THE QUR’AN AND SUNNAH #12 [This is the twelfth in a series of my notes on the International Institute of Islamic Thought conference on approaching the Qur’an and Sunnah held in Herndon, VA. These notes are raw material for an edited report I will write on the conference…
