While we’re in this neighborhood (see last couple of posts): Though I generally shared his sentiments, I wish CNN’s Rick Sanchez had been more journalist than TV personality in his interview of Pastor Terry Thomas. It may have helped to see and hear more of the “Islam is of the Devil” pastor’s thinking.
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 [...]
“Last November the Malaysian government refused to release 10,000 Bibles it had seized because they contained the word Allah to refer to God…A few Muslims unfortunately went further and attacked churches, badly damaging some of them. Such actions are condemnable as they contradict normative Islam.” Appreciation to my friend Imam Enrique Rasheed of Jacksonville for [...]
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The theme was “Planning, Designing and Implementing Quranic Standards for Living in Model Communities.” Host Imam Hatim Hamidullah of Masjid Al-Haqq in Orlando (below left), and Imam Qasim Ahmed of Tampa, along with Imam Enriqe Rasheed of Jacksonville, led Saturday’s daylong Educational Session.
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Well, it seemed like a great idea: to blog a daily entry here from my reading of 1/30 of the Quran each day during the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan. Then an extraordinarily unusual amount of my time was demanded to properly fulfill a professional obligation: covering, for whataboutourdaughters.com, the first trials in the Dunbar [...]
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“O ye who believe. Fasting is prescribed to you as it was prescribed to those before you, that ye may learn self-restraint.” — 2:183, Yusuf Ali translation. “Ramadhan is the (month) in which was sent down the Qur-an, as a guide to mankind, also clear (Signs) for guidance and judgment between right and wrong.” — [...]
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Burning the Qur’an? ‘Wherever they burn books, they will in the end Burn Human Beings’
August 2nd · No Comments · Muslim, Quran
I love it when truly knowledgeable folks other than Muslims speak on Islam. If it gets any better than University of Michigan Prof. Juan Cole at his Informed Comment site, someone let me know. And don’t miss the informed comments.
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