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Interpreters of the Koran should emphasize unity instead of conflicting views, Islamic scholar Mufti Syed M. Hasan said in an Islam Awareness Week lecture last night at Pound Hall...
Hasan is the Executive Director of the Institute for Islamic Education and Research in Miami, Florida. In his talk, Hasan repeatedly stressed that Islam is a "universal message...
...word 'Islam' is Arabic, but any religion has its language," Hasan said, "In following Islam we follow all the religions of the world...
Afghanistan's new rulers, the Taliban, may have firm notions about Islam [WORLD, Oct. 14], but I beg to disagree that calling for the imprisonment of women in their homes enforces Islamic law. Islam gives equal status to women and men. I invite Taliban clerics or any Islamic scholars to prove that Islamic law prohibits women from going outside the house to get an education or take jobs for their survival or for extra income. Allah gave equal rights to women 14 centuries ago, but Muslim men took them away...
...Congress to express genuine support for the political goals of the p.l.o. And though G.O.P. cliches, not to mention a formidable opponent, make his candidacy seem improbable, he believes the economically ravaged 35th can be revived with a local revolution of churches, schools, community groups and the Nation of Islam working together...