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Entries Tagged as 'Juan Cole'

Swiftboating a ‘mosque’ Part II

August 22nd · No Comments · Delray Beach, Islam, Muslim, Palm Beach Post

Last Sunday I committed to provide documentation of Muslim condemnation of 9/11 and terrorism during our always engaging News Talk session at the First Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the Palm Beaches. We won’t hear such denunciation documented on Faux News — quite the contrary. But one need only Google these things. In fact, in a search [...]

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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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Juan Cole: Following Quranic logic to its conclusion

March 17th · 2 Comments · Islam, Muslim, Quran

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 [...]

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