Month: September 2011
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Institutions of Iftaa: Panel on the Fiqh Council of North America (FCNA)
NOTES FROM THE IIIT CONFERENCE ON IFTAA AND FATWA IN THE MUSLIM WORLD AND THE WEST: THE CHALLENGES OF AUTHORITY, LEGITIMACY AND RELEVANCE #13 [This is the thirteenth in a series of my notes on the International Institute of Islamic Thought conference on iftaa and fatwa held in Herndon, VA. These notes are raw material…
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Regulating Fatwa in the Contemporary World: Discourses of Pluralism & Crisis in the Age of Globalization
NOTES FROM THE IIIT CONFERENCE ON IFTAA AND FATWA IN THE MUSLIM WORLD AND THE WEST: THE CHALLENGES OF AUTHORITY, LEGITIMACY AND RELEVANCE #12 [This is the twelfth in a series of my notes on the International Institute of Islamic Thought conference on iftaa and fatwa held in Herndon, VA. These notes are raw material…
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News and Analysis (9/12/11)
China offers the U.S. lessons on how to ban Shariah law by “escorting” students to lunch during Ramadan, shutting down the cafeteria on the feast day, and prohibiting them form going home for the holidays: How China Kept Lid on Ramadan (LA Times) Is that a picture of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in the FBI Power…
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Interview with Panjereh on Islamophobia
[We were recently interviewed by Panjereh on the phenomenon of Islamophobia. Here are the questions and answers: Q- What are the main aims of the US and West from Islamophobia? A. Islamophobia is not an official strategy of the U.S. government nor, I believe, of Western governments in general, even though it has been effective…
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IIIT Panel on the Jurisprudence of Minorities
NOTES FROM THE IIIT CONFERENCE ON IFTAA AND FATWA IN THE MUSLIM WORLD AND THE WEST: THE CHALLENGES OF AUTHORITY, LEGITIMACY AND RELEVANCE #11 [This is the eleventh in a series of my notes on the International Institute of Islamic Thought conference on iftaa and fatwa held in Herndon, VA. These notes are raw material…
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News and Analysis (9/8/11)
“This smells of persecution…. In a free country … this should simply not be happening” – Father Wilfredo Benitez, rector of St. Anselm of Canterbury Episcopal Church in Garden Grove: Irvine 11’s Trial Begins with Both Sides Citing 1st Amendment (LA Times) Without full implementation of “the specific provisions laid out for the two states [of South…
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News and Analysis (9/7/11)
“A ‘licence to kill’ (or to abduct and torture) only exists in certain films, and in dictatorial regimes. In democratic systems, parliaments, as representatives of the people, have a right and duty to know what the government is doing in the name of the people”: Dick Marty Rendition Report Condemns “Cult of Secrecy” (BBC) “The…
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News and Analysis (9/6/11)
“Prosecution lawyers were visibly stunned by the testimony of the witness, Gen. Hussein Moussa, and angrily accused him of changing his story from the affidavit he initially gave prosecutors”: Mubarak Trial Witness: No Order to Shoot Protests (AP / abc News) “Before, I couldn’t say anything in my own home…. “But at least I was…
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Shuratic Iftaa: the Challenge of Fatwa Collaboration
NOTES FROM THE IIIT CONFERENCE ON IFTAA AND FATWA IN THE MUSLIM WORLD AND THE WEST: THE CHALLENGES OF AUTHORITY, LEGITIMACY AND RELEVANCE #10 [This is the tenth in a series of my notes on the International Institute of Islamic Thought conference on iftaa and fatwa held in Herndon, VA. These notes are raw material…
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News and Analysis (9/1/11)
If confirmed, this could be the first high ranking Syrian defection: Video Shows Syrian Attorney General in Restive City Resigning over Crackdown (AP / Wahsington Post) Children aren’t born hating; as Oscar Hammerstein II noted, “You’ve got to be carefully taught”: 9/11 Coloring Book Sparks Outrage From Muslim Group (Time) In the appeal to be…
