Appreciation to my Palm Beach Post colleagues for publishing over the years my occasional columns on Al-Islam and Muslims – whether explaining Ramadan or the Hajj, or the fact that Islam by definition rejects terrorism, or this essay today, whose text also appears below. In an era of so much misinformation – some due to […]
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First, fyi, here’s Michael LaForgia’s Palm Beach Post report (” ‘Lazy’ media fuels prejudice against Muslims, activist says”) on “Muslims in the Media: Separating Fact and Fiction,” my talk Tuesday at Palm Beach State College. On to those links and resources I promised I’d get online for PBSC students and others: Jim Kenney is exactly on the […]
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Heading out this morning to my latest speaking engagement: the Men’s Club of Abbey Delray South, mostly retired executives and professionals who participate in community activities, do volunteer work and have been meeting weekly for 26 years. My host told me, “I believe the topic of greatest interest to the Men’s Club would be the […]
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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 […]
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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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Heartfelt thanks to my former Palm Beach Post colleagues Mitra Malek, Rich Graulich and their editors for a nice profile today of some of what I’m doing in Life After The Post: first Muslim volunteer chaplain for the Palm Beach County Sheriff Office.
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Hanif on media