On the sign-in table was the Focolare’s Living City magazine edition proclaiming “Building blocks for world peace.” In the room, that’s what was happening. I’m not sure which was more inspiring: the enlightening DVD and discussion, or the wonderful human spirit with which folks connected after.
As we plan what’s next, while encouraging you and yours [...]
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“Model Interfaith Dialogue & Unity”
Featuring an examination of Focolare founder Chiara Lubich’s historic 1997 address to a gathering of 3,000 at Harlem’s Malcolm Shabazz Mosque. The event sparked a continuing upsurge in interfaith collaboration.
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Imam Abdul-Haq Muhammed of Fort Myers, convener, Florida Conference of Muslim Americans (L), and Imam Dr. Nasir Ahmad of host Masjid Al-Ansar, Miami.
FCMA’s next meeting set for October in Fort Myers…
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The congregational prayer, Friday Night Fish Fry, workshops, breakfast, banquet (during which Azhar Usman’s An Apology to Imam W. Deen Mohammed was read from the program), and more, at FCMA’s latest reunion of Muslims, family and friends from around the state and beyond. (Click on photos for larger view.)
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Here’s a link is to a brochure that includes details regarding the interfaith panel on death and dying (“The End…Or Is Is?”) on which I have been invited to participate March 25 at the First Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the Palm Beaches. Even more than sharing from a Muslim perspective, I hope to learn a lot [...]
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Stumbled across this insight from University of Michigan Professor Juan Cole while researching my talk on the true picture of Muslims with a great group yesterday at Harbour’s Edge in Delray Beach. Cole cites and translates chapter and verse to conclude: “The default in the Quran is therefore not aggressive warfare, something the book repeatedly [...]
Georgetown Professor John Esposito’s DVD series laid great groundwork for good discussion with some delightful and inquisitive people. Aneesha and I helped bring to life his well-grounded perspective. We’re due back next week to Abbey Delray South, where last year I served on an excellent interfaith panel. Meanwhile here are some scenes:
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“I thought you might find this interesting,” said my friend Husam Amin of the documentary video he sent me. I think you might too. All kinds of insights.
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Hanif on media
‘Can banning the Niqab really work?’ asks Syria Comment
July 19th · No Comments · Islam, Muslim
Joshua Landis, with links to varied views at his Syria Comment blog, does a really nice job covering the spectrum of Muslim and other opinion on the banning sentiment that right-wing Western pols and the Syrian government apparently have in common. Attorney Ronald Sokol’s focus on the ironies of the “veiled arguments” are particularly poignant. Here also is the [...]
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