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...interesting that here we are discussing religious pluralism, and it's the beginning of Islam Awareness Week at Harvard," she said. She noted that there are now Hindu and Buddhist organizations at Harvard...
...Epps enrolled at the Harvard Divinity School, where he developed a particular interest in Islam. Epps says studying the Islamic tradition--especially the writings of Malcolm X, the one-time leader of the Nation of Islam--led him to a greater consciousness of racial issues in the years to come. In 1967, Epps edited a book of Malcolm X's speeches at Harvard...
...most objections to the film come fromMuslims who feel that The Siege reinforcesthe public's association between Islamic practicesand terrorist activity. "The movie tried to getcloser to the substance of Islam, but in the end,"Siddiqui says, "it was quite flawed, unbalanced."Only terrorists speak of religious matters, andtwo imprisoned characters recite the seminalprayer from the Qur'an (the Muslim scripture)."The practicing Muslims were terrorists, anddespite the portrayal of families praying [duringmontage sequences of community life], the familiesweren't developed," he explains. "There was enoughsuspicion raised in the movie to make even thesefamilies suspect; there's nothing...
...million Amount an Iranian foundation offered for killing Salman Rushdie for blaspheming Islam...
...title your article "The Sword of Islam," and why use the metaphor of Pakistani rulers "waving the scimitar of Islam" [WORLD, Sept. 28], unless the intent is to portray all forms of Muslim political activism as stridently militant? It is wrong to perpetuate such crude stereotypes. Pakistan is a country in which a politically and religiously diverse populace is struggling for its survival in the face of many serious challenges. You could have given your readers probing insights into how the country is faring on all these fronts and how the different political appeals to so-called Islam are being...