InterFaith21

Promoting unity among people of faith (or no particular faith) in the 21st Century.

InterFaith21 header image 1

Entries Tagged as 'Islam'

Jon Stewart does it again: Akbar Ahmed…

August 24th · No Comments · Islam, Muslim

…was surprised and pleased to find a strong presence of African-American Islam when he visited 100 mosques around America: Journey into America.

[Read more →]

Tags: ·····

Hear hear: ‘MLK tells us why the mosque must be built’

August 22nd · No Comments · Barack Obama, Bible, Christian, Extremism, Interfaith, Islam, Martin Luther King, Muslim

Stephanie J. Jones, in today’s Washington Post (There are no outsiders among us),  eloquently  voices my argument that at the groundbreaking, dedication and grand opening of  the Cordoba Initiative’s Islamic community center in Manhattan, the 9/11 victims’ survivors should be standing out  front — and in front of them, survivors of the innocent Muslim victims. Let’s send that picture […]

[Read more →]

Tags: ···············

From PB Post: ‘Islam, by defintion, rejects terrorism’

August 22nd · No Comments · Catholic, Chiara Lubich, Christian, Focolare, Imam W. Deen Mohammed, Islam, Jewish, Muslim, Palm Beach Post, Prophet Muhammad, Quran, Ramadan

This column also was reprinted in our national newspaper the Muslim Journal. Note the date: Islam, by defintion, rejects terrorism By C.B. Hanif The Palm Beach Post October 15, 2006 As one who grew up rooting for Tarzan and Cheetah to whip up on my Afro-wigged cousins portraying Hollywood’s idea of Africans, I can understand how […]

[Read more →]

Tags: ··········

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 […]

[Read more →]

Tags: ··

At least we agreed no Quran burning

August 18th · No Comments · Islam, Muslim, Quran

With my longtime friend Rabbi Barry Silver and new friend Pastor Mark Boykin positing our various perspectives, WPBF-TV’s reporter had an unenviable job but managed to distill our comments to eight representative grafs. One small nit (sorry, it’s the news ombudsman in me): I said “healing and reconciliation,” which understandably could have been misheard given […]

[Read more →]

Tags: ·······

Rowe: The ugliest part of fear mongering is that the ‘they’ and ‘them’ being referred to are other Americans

August 17th · No Comments · Islam, Muslim

The baiting headlines — some now morphing to “Ground Zero Mosque” in quotes — have obscured the Cordoba project’s transformative objective from its inception: Maybe the ultimate memorial to the murder victims of September 11th would be to categorically reject the forces of political and religious divisiveness who want this fear of neighbors to fester and […]

[Read more →]

Tags: ····

Swiftboating a mosque? It ain’t a mosque, of course. And it ain’t at Ground Zero. In face of right-wing’s latest stampede effort, a president and mayor stand for right

August 14th · No Comments · Barack Obama, Interfaith, Islam, Muslim

“I am ashamed to say that it took me a week to focus on the facts and it wasn’t until I heard an architect from NY describe where the building was, that it was in the middle of a row on (sic) buildings on a city block, and how it was designed inside that I […]

[Read more →]

Tags: ·······

Texts of Ramadan greetings from Obama, Pelosi, Clinton

August 13th · No Comments · Barack Obama, Interfaith, Islam, Muslim, Prayer, Ramadan

Ramadan is a time when Muslims around the world reflect upon the wisdom and guidance that comes with faith, and the responsibility that human beings have to one another, and to God…And here in the United States, Ramadan is a reminder that Islam has always been part of America and that American Muslims have made […]

[Read more →]

Tags: ··

Prophet Muhammad’s Pre-Ramadan Khutbah (sermon), and Imam W. Deen Mohammed’s Lecture on Ramadan

August 11th · 1 Comment · Creator, Imam W. Deen Mohammed, Interfaith, Islam, Muslim, Prayer, Prophet Muhammad, Quran, Ramadan

Courtesy of Imam Khalifah Ramadan: As Salaamu ‘Alaikum wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatu The Khutbah Given By The Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) On The Last Friday Of Sha’ban On The Reception Of The Month of Ramadan O People!

[Read more →]

Tags:

A good day: Bible on the Beach to Pre-Ramadan Dinner

August 10th · 1 Comment · Bible, Christian, Community Life, Islam, Muslim, Ramadan

The manifestation of the Spirit is given to each one for the profit of all — I Corinthians 12:7. First: We continue to pray for relief and the complete recovery of our dear Imam Dr. Nasir Ahmad, of Miami’s Masjid Al-Ansar,  from pneumonia complications. Second, Miss Tee Jackson continues to deserve kudos for bringing people together […]

[Read more →]

Tags: ··