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Entries Tagged as 'Tom O’Brien'

At FAU’s Lifelong Learning Society with Tom O’Brien and Rabbi Howard Shapiro: more Model Dialogue & Unity

February 12th · 1 Comment · Interfaith, New Africa of the Palm Beaches

What a joy — as one may glean from the additional photos at the end of this post — to share perspectives on Islam and Muslims for The Lifelong Learning Society at Florida Atlantic University’s Honors Campus in Jupiter. Deep gratitude to Rabbi Howard Shapiro and Tom O’Brien, my hosts and co-presenters for the very rewarding Feb. 10 […]

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What 72 virgins? Lesley Hazleton on reading the Koran

January 21st · 1 Comment · Quran

“There are no 72 virgins in the Quran. That idea only came into being 300 years later, and most Islamic scholars see it as the equivalent of people with wings sitting on clouds and strumming harps.” — Lesley Hazelton Much appreciation to my friend and teacher Tom O’Brien (whose New Testament Bible Study Course just […]

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On Malaysian Bibles & misguided ‘Muslims’

January 27th · 2 Comments · Bible, Christian, Extremism, Florida Conference of Muslim Americans, Islam, Jesus, Martin Luther King, Muslim, Quran

“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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