Timothy Winter Puts Islam and Violence into Perspective...
Delivered during Cambridge University Islamic Society’s Experience Islam Week (EIW) 2010 by TJ Winter (Shaykh Abdal Hakim Murad). Islam, violence, and terrorism: three words that are too often combined without a second thought. What is Islam’s stance on violence? Do Muslims really condemn terrorism? [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtIaQt_26s0[/youtube] [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFUsKACFFDM[/youtube] [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldREBPQynkQ[/youtube] [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fim1Db0wz2g[/youtube] [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93gRj-1DVlc[/youtube] [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0OPPirUEwE[/youtube] [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9gTMC6KrKU[/youtube] [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjviGxCbip4[/youtube] [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21SiLVqEqhc[/youtube]...
A Conversation With: Maulana Wahiduddin Khan About the Salman Rushdie Affair...
Following the controversy over author Salman Rushdie’s appearance at the Jaipur Literature Festival, which ultimately ended with even a video conference with Mr. Rushdie being cancelled, India Ink is speaking with Muslim leaders about the situation, their feelings about his “The Satanic Verses” and whether politics played a part. Maulana Wahiduddin Khan is the founder of the Center for Peace and Spirituality, New Delhi. He has received the Padma Bhushan, the third highest civilian honor in India, and the Demiurgus Peace International Award. Malavika Vyawahare spoke to him this week at his home in New Delhi. Q. What is your reaction to the protests against Salman Rushdie’s participation in the Jaipur Literature Festival? A. These protests...
Islamic Statements Against Terrorism
Professor Charles Kurzman assembled a list of many Muslim scholars denouncing terrorism. The list is reproduced here, and a link to the original is published. source Mustafa Mashhur, General Guide, Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt; Qazi Hussain Ahmed, Ameer, Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan, Pakistan; Muti Rahman Nizami, Ameer, Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh, Bangladesh; Shaykh Ahmad Yassin, Founder, Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), Palestine; Rashid Ghannoushi, President, Nahda Renaissance Movement, Tunisia; Fazil Nour, President, PAS – Parti Islam SeMalaysia, Malaysia; and 40 other Muslim scholars and politicians: “The undersigned, leaders of Islamic movements, are horrified by the events of Tuesday 11 September 2001 in the United States which resulted in massive killing, destruction and attack on innocent lives. We express our deepest sympathies and sorrow. We...
At Islamic Center, Relief Awlaki Can No Longer ‘Spread Hate’...
By Gary Strauss, USA TODAY FALLS CHURCH, Va. – Members of the suburban, Washington D.C., Islamic center where Anwar al-Awlaki once served as Imam condemned his terrorist activities following his death Friday. “Al-Awlaki encouraged impressionable American-Muslims to attack their own country,” said Imam Johari Abdul-Malik, director of outreach for Dar Al-Hijrah Islamic Center, where a large crowd was worshiping in morning prayer. “(He) will no longer spread his hate speech over the Internet to Muslim youth, provoking them to engage in violence against Americans.” Al-Awlaki was killed by U.S. drone missile strikes in Yemen. His anti-U.S. rhetoric leanings led to his 2002 ouster at the center, where he served as...
Survey of US Muslims Finds Little Support for Extremism...
Jerome Socolovsky | Washington, D.C. August 30, 2011 Since the 2001 terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, many Americans have worried about the potential for home grown militancy among Muslims living in the United States. A new survey of American Muslims suggests that a decade after the attacks, there is very little support for extremism. The survey by The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life was released just ahead of the 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks and on the Eid al-Fitr holiday marking the end of Ramadan. According to the survey of more than 1,000 American Muslims, only one percent said suicide bombings and other forms of violence against civilians are often justified to defend Islam...
Norway Muslims share nation’s grief and hope for unity...
By Mohammed Abbas and Aasa Christine Stoltz OSLO | Tue Jul 26, 2011 3:22pm EDT (Reuters) – As central Oslo reeled from Norway’s worst massacre in modern history, a blond man in the grieving crowd asked Iraqi-born Iman al-Kofi, wearing a headscarf, for a hug. Kofi, who had a friend in intensive care with three bullet wounds and had learned that at least one other friend of Iraqi origin had been killed in Friday’s massacre by an anti-Islamic extremist, obliged, and the man walked back into the crowd without another word. Kofi, 19, and other Muslim immigrants say they would have been treated very differently had the perpetrator of one of the country’s most heinous...
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