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...just finding some groups may be a challenge. Feel like you have not passed the Harvard Islamic Society's building recently? That's because the group meets for daily prayers in the basement of Canaday E, its fourth cramped home in five years. This may be the most egregious case of a religious group needing its own place to worship, meet, eat and educate. Prominence would help Muslims and would help all Harvard students to understand more about Islam. At the Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel building, built in 1994, Jews and non-Jews alike eat in its dining hall and learn...
...guests include Professor of Afro-American Studies Cornel R. West '74, Malcolm Wiener Professor of Social Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government William J. Wilson, Conrad Muhammed of the Nation of Islam, Winthrop Professor of History Stephan A. Thernstrom, Republican Bob Woodson and several Harvard students...
...teetotaling stems partly from the fact that I'm a Muslim. The general Muslim consensus when interpreting the Quran, Islam's scripture, is that drinking alcohol is what we semi-religious people call a "sin." Just as importantly though, I've never received a compelling answer to my question, "Why should I drink...
...Africa, people will tell you in Eritrea. What they mean is that the country is astonishingly free of the social plagues that taint much of the continent. There is no tribalism or sectarian division here. National pride supersedes loyalties to nine main ethnic groups, at least 10 languages, Islam and Christianity, in part the consequence of the rebels' insistence on mixing everyone together in its army units and now in national-service teams...
Everyone knows Russians love to drink. The Russian people's penchant for imbibing is the stuff of legend. It is said that Prince Vladimir chose Orthodox Christianity over Islam as the religion of Russia simply because, unlike Islam, it permitted its adherents to drink alcohol. Another legend tells the story of an 18th-century tsar who was saved by a peasant. Although the tsar offered to bestow all sorts of riches upon him, the tsar's rescuer asked simply for a piece of paper that would allow him to drink free anywhere in the empire. When he lost the piece...