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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 […]

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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!

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Burn, pastor, burn?

August 5th · No Comments · Bible, Christian, Islam, Jesus, Quran

While we’re in this neighborhood (see last couple of posts): Though I generally shared his sentiments, I wish CNN’s Rick Sanchez had been more journalist than TV personality in his interview of Pastor Terry Thomas. It may have helped to see and hear more of the “Islam is of the Devil” pastor’s thinking.

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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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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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Florida Conference of Muslim Americans: outstanding Educational Session in Orlando

January 24th · 7 Comments · Florida Conference of Muslim Americans, Islam, Muslim, Quran

The theme was “Planning, Designing and Implementing Quranic Standards for Living in Model Communities.” Host Imam Hatim Hamidullah of Masjid Al-Haqq in Orlando (below left), and Imam Qasim Ahmed of Tampa, along with Imam Enriqe Rasheed of Jacksonville, led Saturday’s daylong Educational Session.

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Ramadan: 1/30th of Quran a day, more or less

September 5th · 1 Comment · Quran, Ramadan

Well, it seemed like a great idea: to blog a daily entry here from my reading of 1/30 of the Quran each day during the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan. Then an extraordinarily unusual amount of my time was demanded to properly fulfill a professional obligation: covering, for whataboutourdaughters.com, the first trials in the  Dunbar […]

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On Fasting, from second 1/30 of the Quran

August 24th · No Comments · Quran, Ramadan

“O ye who believe. Fasting is prescribed to you as it was prescribed to those before you, that ye may learn self-restraint.” — 2:183, Yusuf Ali translation. “Ramadhan is the (month) in which was sent down the Qur-an, as a guide to mankind, also clear (Signs) for guidance and judgment between right and wrong.” — […]

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President Obama’s Interfaith Message in Cairo…

July 3rd · No Comments · As salaam alaikum, Barack Obama, Cairo, Christian, Dress, Enlightenment, Extremism, Holocaust, Interfaith, Kenya, Ku Klux Klan, Liberalism, Muslim, Quran, Race, Renaissance, Slavery, The Coastal Star, The Huffington Post, Women

this month’s InterFaith21 column, is at The Coastal Star: There he was in Cairo, our president, stealing our lines: Uniting people of faith, or no particular faith, in the 21st century. President Barack Obama bestrode multiple worlds, representing Americans in ways that hasn’t happened since … ever….he not only explained Islam to Americans, and America […]

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