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Islam caught between ‘Talabanization’ and ‘Westoxicosis’Abu NimirNovember 2, 2006MILA UnlimitedPolemics about “clash of civilizations” aside, the western mind set has been preoccupied with Islam’s inability to conform to modernity. Enlightenment in the West lead to a secular polity, Islamic enlightenment on which the West has pinned its hopes in this sense is an anathema. Secular world view is

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End the Silence Over ChechnyaBy Václav Havel, Prince Hassan bin Talal, George Soros, André Glücksmann, Karel Schwarzenberg, Frederik Willem de Klerk, Mary Robinson, Yohei Sasakawa, and Desmond Tutu.The Project SyndicateIt is extremely difficult for an honest observer to break through the closed doors that separate Chechnya from the rest of the world. Indeed, no one even knows how many civilian

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MIKE DAVISFEAR AND MONEY IN DUBAI‘As your jet starts its descent, you are glued to your window. The scene below is astonishing: a 24-square-mile archipelago of coral-coloured islands in the shape of an almost-finished puzzle of the world. In the shallow green waters between continents, the sunken shapes of the Pyramids of Giza and the Roman Colosseum are clearly visible. In the distance, three

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After Neoconservatism ByFRANCIS FUKUYAMA (NYT) 4646 words Published: February 19, 2006AsWe approach the third anniversary of the onset of the Iraq war, it seems very unlikely thathistory will judge either the intervention itself or the ideas animating it kindly. By invadingIraq, the Bush administration created a self-fulfilling prophecy: Iraq has now replacedAfghanistan as a magnet, a training

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Friday, June 17, 2005Insulting an Islamic center -and American valuesBurned Qurans are in line with an ugly, intolerant nativism creeping into U.S. discourse.Hate crime or not, the deposit of a bagful of burned Qurans on the steps of the Islamic Center of Blacksburg was an act of profound contempt.Whoever was responsible obviously was contemptuous of Muslims. But the scorn expressed extends to

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Security Council Reform ! No Seat for a Billion Muslims?By Dr. Farooq HassanApril 28, 2005 The Security Council: World War II victors' club?From 1997 until today, an international debate about enlarging the numerical strength of the Security Council has been in evidence. Demands and proposals by diverse institutions have advocated that the enlargement in both permanent and non-permanent

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Following is a long article but worth reading. Whatever the author said about Musharraf and Pakistan is applicable to the whole Muslim world from Morocco to Indonesia.Prof. Khurshid Ahmad is an economist; he is the founder of Islamic Foundation, Leicester, England, translator of many of Maulana Mawdudi’s books and author of many of his own books. He is the founder and Director of Institute of

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An Examination of the Issue of Female Prayer LeadershipBy Imam Zaid ShakirIntroductionImam al-Jurjani mentions that fitnah is "that which clarifies the state of a person, be that good or evil."2 It is also defined as "Strife breaking out among various peoples."3 In both of these meanings the controversy surrounding the "historic" female-led Jumu'ah prayer is a Fitnah for many Muslims in this

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An International call for Moratorium on corporal punishment, stoning and the death penalty in the Islamic World publication : 30th March 2005 by Tariq RAMADANMuslim majority societies and Muslims around the world are constantly confronted with the fundamental question of how to implement the penalties prescribed in the Islamic penal code.Evoking the notion of sharî’a, or more precisely hudûd[1],

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GLOBAL VIEWBy George Melloan, Wall Street Journal March 29, 2005Arguably, the people with the biggest stake in combating Islamic terrorism are moderate Muslims who want to live normal lives in Western societies. The ravages of al Qaeda and the extremism of Islamic states have subjected them to special scrutiny at border crossings and airports. U.S. authorities have rules against "profiling" but

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'Music is part of God's universe'Yusuf Islam was deported from America for being a 'security threat'. How, he asks Nigel Williamson, could they get him so wrong? Tuesday March 29, 2005The Guardian'Music is a lady that I still love'... Yusuf Islam. Photo: Eamonn McCabe Yusuf Islam doesn't look like a threat to anyone's national security. As he bounds into the room dressed in jeans and a black

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Arab and Muslim professors at US universities remain targetBy Abdus Sattar GhazaliArab and Muslim professors at the Middle East and Islamic Study Centers at the US universities are target of the neoconservatives and the Evangelical Christian right while the funding coming from the Arab and Muslim endowments is labeled as “blood money,” says Dr. Hatem Bazian, Professor at the Near East and Ethnic

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A Multifaceted Fraud Reviewing Irshad Manji's 'The Trouble With Islam', Part 1 byJustin Podur;December 05, 2003 Irshad Manji, according to the jacket of her book, is "abroadcaster, author, public speaker, and media enterpreneur, born inEast Africa and raised on the west coast of Canada." She was theproducer and host of QueerTelevision and calls herself "a journalistwith a reputation

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A Critique of The Argument For Woman-Led Friday Prayers ByHina Azam, March 18, 2005Hina Azam is an incoming Professor of Islamic Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Her specialty is Islamic law.All Muslim eyes today are turned toward New York, where Muslim WakeUp! and the Muslim Women's Freedom Tour have organized the first public woman-led Friday prayer service in ... well, perhaps

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Woman Imam Leading Men and Women in SalatBy Dr. Muzammil H. SiddiqiIslam places no restriction on women to teach, preach and guide both women and men. Men and women are supporters of each other. They command what is right and forbid what is wrong(Al-Tawbah 9:71) There are many women today who are fully qualified to be jurists (faqihah) and give religious opinions (fatawa). They do issue fatwa

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March 18, 2005Muslim Group Is Urging Women to Lead PrayersBy ANDREA ELLIOTTAs they do every Friday, Muslims will answer the call to prayer at mosques around the city today. But in a bold move, some plan to break with convention and attend a service led by a woman at a conference hall on the Upper West Side - an act that has stirred a modest but fierce debate about the role of women in Islam.The

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Women in Society: Political ParticipationSocial responsibility in Islam is derived from the Quranic verse which states: "And [as for] the believers, both men and women - they are friends and protectors of one another: they [all] enjoin the doing of what is right and forbid the doing of what is wrong, and are constant in prayer, and render the purifying dues, and pay heed unto God and His apostle.

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washingtonpost.com A Woman's Head Scarf, a Continent's DiscomfortBy Mustafa MalikSunday, March 13, 2005; Page B02Ten days ago, a 31-year-old Moroccan-born immigrant to Belgium quit her job at a prepared foods factory in the small town of Ledegem. Her decision was the result of several months of intimidation, beginning in November when her employer, Rik Remmery, received an anonymous letter. It

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Are We in World War IV?By Tom EngelhardtThursday 10 March 2005Throughout much of the Cold War, people feared above all else a global hot war, the third great one in a century of devastating world wars; and we crept up to it more than once - most desperately, there can be no doubt, at the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962. For decades, the world was poised for that next world war;

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Do Female Prayer Protests Miss The Point?ByDr. Aslam Abdullah, March 6, 2005On March 18, Dr. Amina Wadud gave the Friday sermon to a mixed gender audience at Sundaram Tagore Gallery in New York. She also led the Friday prayer to the joint congregation. Dr. Wadud, an Islamic studies professor in the department of philosophy and religious studies at Virginia Commonwealth University, is nationally

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Going Nuclear – Iran’s Tug of War with AmericabyDr. Habib SiddiquiPresident Bush recently visited Europe in a five-day fence-mending journey. Everywhere he went, if there was a persistent theme it was that ‘Iran should not have a nuclear weapon.’ In that he reached agreement with leaders of the EU countries.[1] On the final leg of his tour he even tried to persuade his post-9/11 on-again and

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Why the Children in Iraq Make No Sound When They FallBy Bernard Chazellehttp://www.cs.princeton.edu/~chazelle/politics/jan05.html[IMG]o one said that dying had to be dull. "Screaming with fear, paralyzed children at a shelter for the physically disabled and mentally ill in Galle, Sri Lanka, lay helplessly in their beds as seawater surged around them." The CNN report read like the screenplay of a

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Dr. Amina Wadud Leads PrayerMarch 18, 2005Friday Prayer Led by Dr. Amina Wadud @ NYCMuslim WakeUp!is proud to sponsorThe First Muslim Woman on Record to Lead Mixed-Gender PrayerWho: Dr. Amina Wadud will lead Jumah/Muslim Friday PrayerWhen: Friday, March 18, 2005, 1-3pmWhere:Sundaram Tagore Gallery137 Greene StreetNew York, New York 10012Event Description:On Friday, March 18, 2005, Dr. Amina Wadud

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Tale of US attack hits mark in Turkeyby AFPWednesday 23 February 2005 10:32 AM GMTThe book begins with a US attack on Turkish troops in IraqUS warplanes relentlessly pound Istanbul and Ankara, killing hundreds, while the rest of the country is in flames: Washington has just launched operation Metal Storm against its former ally, Turkey.The futuristic novel by two young Turkish writers has sold

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Iraq, Then and NowBy BOB HERBERTremember going to Washington in mid-March 2003, nearly two years ago, to cover a demonstration by tens of thousands of protesters who were clinging to the last, tissue-thin strands of hope that they could bring the Bush administration to its senses and prevent the invasion of Iraq.But it was already clear that nothing would deter President Bush from his war. I

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Islamic culture: A convenient scapegoatby Soumayya GhannoushiMonday 14 February 2005 11:59 AM GMTEver since the monumental day of 11 September 2001, the world has been inundated by stale clichés and dim-witted myths, poorly disguised as honest academic research and free objective journalism.In this great hyperbole, the world appears broken into two opposite trenches: a sphere of freedom, morality

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That have not been asked: ten dispatches about endurance in face of wallsJohn Berger 16 - 2 - 2005“The worst cruelties of life are its killing injustices.” John Berger on poverty, desire, storytelling, and the future’s gift to the present.The wind got up inthe night and took our plans away.(Chinese proverb)The poor have no residence. They have homes because they remember mothers or grandfathers

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An American Woman's JihadMuslim convert recounts spiritual journeyFebruary 14, 2005By Mary Chu Sun Staff Writer"As adults we must each own our own beliefs," said Prof. Fidelma O'Leary, biology, St. Edward's University, to a packed auditorium in Goldwin Smith on Friday night. Her lecture, "An American Woman's Jihad," detailed her spiritual journey as an Irish-American Muslim."Islam [is] a

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February 14, 2005OP-ED COLUMNISTThe Public ThinkerByBOB HERBERTArthur Miller, in his autobiography, "Timebends," quoted the great physicist Hans Bethe as saying, "Well, I come down in the morning and I take up a pencil and I try to think. ..."It's a notion that appears to have gone the way of the rotary phone. Americans not only seem to be doing less serious thinking lately, they seem to have

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Ramadhan 1399/July-August 1979 Salt Lake City, Utah The above is taken from the preface to From Where Shall We Begin, and The Machine in the Captivity of Machinism. (Translated by FAtollah Maijani).Extract From The Machine in Captivity of MachinismbyAli Shariati Translated from the Persian by Fatollah Marjani.We are living in a difficult period of history, upon the threshold of making an

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The Islamic Republic of Iraqby Juan ColeThe Republican Party spin machine was bouncing around the airwaves like an overloaded washing machine on Sunday attempting to obscure from the American public that they had by their actions managed to install a Shiite religious ruling class in Iraq. The New York Times even lead with a headline, "U.S. Officials Say a Theocratic Iraq Is Unlikely." This

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A Sad day in our Nations history!!Activist lawyer convicted of aiding terrorists Veteran firebrand could get 20 years for assisting Egyptian sheikThe Associated PressUpdated: 6:33 p.m. ET Feb. 10, 2005NEW YORK - A veteran civil rights lawyer was convicted Thursday of crossing the line by smuggling messages of violence from one of her jailed clients — a radical Egyptian sheik — to his terrorist

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Shi’a rising in Iraq Anwar Rizvi As the votes are counted, the real story of Iraq’s first democratic vote since 1953 may be that the country’s Shi’a majority is transforming the nature of Iraqi politics. The fall of Saddam Hussein in April 2003 provided the Shi’a Muslims of Iraq with perhaps a best-ever opportunity to gain their rightful place in what would hopefully be a free and democratic

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Democracy Promotion" and ResistanceImperial DelusionsBy TARIQ ALIThe United States, unlike the Empires of old Europe has always preferred to excersize its hegemony indirectly. It has relied on local relays--uniformed despots, corrupt oligarchs, pliant politicians and obedient monarchs--rather than lengthy occupations and nation-building with carefully-controlled forms of elite, low-intensity

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MILA is a community of Muslims We are dedicated to collective action in the way of building, serving, and strengthening our communities through education and activism. The MILA community may be best understood through the terms of our names:-MUSLIM signifies our identity and members' commitment to Islam. Islam is that code of morals and behavior that shapes our individual consciousness and

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