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The FBI says the man who had
implicated himself and the slain
Boston bombing suspect in a triple
murder from two years ago suddenly
initiated a violent confrontation
that resulted in his death, but a
friend also interrogated by the
agency says the deceased man
"felt" the FBI would shoot him:
In denying his claims that it
ordered him to create "conversations
about jihad or terrorism, then
capturing the responses and sending
them to the NYPD"
in violation of "a
longstanding federal court order,
the department said [its informant]
was either lying or didn't know what
he was talking about":
"Bahrain's opposition said Wednesday
it will boycott the national
dialogue for two weeks after a
crackdown by authorities that has
seen "hundreds of citizens" arrested
and home of a prominent Shiite
cleric raided":
“Today, we’ve met real people who
suffered the Holocaust and the
heroes that saved them at the risk
of losing their lives” -- Imam
Mohamed Magid, President of the
Islamic Society of North America ...
... while in Bradford,
England the 87-year-old
chairman of the synagogue hails a
Muslim community gift "a true
mizva":
"[S]ome Myanmar people blame the
government for actually stoking – or
at least tacitly supporting –
religious tensions, speculating that
harder-line elements in the
government, unhappy with the
country’s move toward
democratization, see such tension as
a way to justify continued military
influence":
His lawyer "said Issaka's strict
reading of his religion meant that
he would only stand for God":
Tunisia's decision to crack down on
groups more-pious-than-they has
turned "into a public game of
chicken. Although the group
denies involvement
in violence and does charity
work, the interior ministry
banned the rally. Ansar al
Sharia vowed to hold it anyway":
Mursi declares Egyptian security
will be established by denying the
right to keep and bear arms to the
Egyptian people:
"BBC Iran correspondent James
Reynolds reports" that it "is now
clear that Mr Khamenei did not want
either Mr Mashaei or Mr Rafsanjani
to disrupt an election he wants to
reserve for loyal conservatives":
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- [5/6/13] Dr. Ahmad's paper on "Islamic
Rules of Order:
The Link Between Classical and
Contemporary Approaches to Good
Governance" for the
International Institute of Islamic
Thought conference on Good
Governance in Islam: Classical and
Contemporary Approaches and his
notes on the ensuing discussion is
available on our blog.
- [5/3/13] At the request of Prof.
Moqtedar Khan, our report on his
presentation to the International
Institute of Islamic Thought's 2012
Summer Scholar's Institute has been
replaced with a reprint of his
Huffington Post article "Justice
Is Not Enough" on our blog.
- [4/25/13] Minaret of
Freedom Institute president Dr.
Imad-ad-Dean Ahmad was interviewed
by WCUT's Caravan
radio program on the Boston
bombing.
- [4/18/13] The activity page has
been updated to announce that
Minaret of Freedom Institute
president Dr. Imad-ad-Dean Ahmad
will speak to the American
University Rationalists and Atheists
on "Rationality and Theism" in the
Battelle atrium in the Battelle
building on AU campus in
Washington DC beginning at 5 p.m. on
Friday, April 19.
- [4/18/13] Dr. Ahmad was
interviewed by Mohsin Bayat of
usviews.com on Iran,
Syria and John Kerry.
- [4/18/13] Our activity page
has been updated to include events
through March 2013 and we added a
link to our 2011
archived activities.
- [4/10/13] Our news and analysis
for 4/10/13 included a link to an AP
story on the abc News website which
has since been replaced with a
completely different story. We have
replace the link to a Yahoo site
wioth the original story: Whatever
your opinion on the morality of
drone strikes may be, it's hard to
argue their effectiveness against
the man who was reported to have
been killed by one:"Al-Qaida's
No. 2 in Yemen Slams US Drone
Strikes" (AP / Yahoo)
- [4/2/13] Alphecca Muttardy
describes findings the new report on
"Women
in the American Mosque" and
call for sisters to press mosques to
develop a strategic action plan to
promote the participation of women
in an MFI guest blog.
- [3/24/13] The Peace Quest newsletter
has a write-up on Dr. Ahmad's
presentation on "Peace
in Palestine: What Needs to Be
Done" that was given at a
Peace Quest forum in Washington, DC.
- [3/18/13] Dr. Ahmad's paper on "Sociological,
Philosophical, and Legal
Considerations
of Shariah as the Rule of Law in
Islam” delivered at the
Islamabad meeting of the Istanbul
Liberty Network on "Islam and
the Institutions of Civil Society"
is now available on our website.
- [3/14/13] Dr. Ahmad joins Rob
Sachs, host of the Voice of Russia
American Edition, Brendan Cole, host
of the Voice of Russia UK Edition,
Julien Barnes-Dacey, senior policy
fellow in the Middle East and North
Africa Programme at the European
Council on Foreign Relations, and
Mikhail Roschin, senior research
fellow at the Institute of Oriental
Studies of the Russian Academy of
Sciences for a panel discussion on
the "Syrian
conflict's second anniversary,
arming rebels still splinters
world players" on Voice of
Russia radio.
- [3/12/13] The sixth and seventh in
Dr. Ahmad's series of notes on the
International Institute of Islamic
Thought conference on Good
Governance in Islam: Classical and
Contemporary Approaches summarizes
the presentation and discussion of
Dr. Abdallah Al Arian on “Re-engaging
the State: The Muslim
Brotherhood, the Sadat Regime,
and the Quest for Islamic
Government in 1970s Egypt" and Prof.
Kenneth Honerkamp on "Good
Governance in Islam in the Light
of Takhalluq Bi Asmaa Allah Al
Husna: A Classical Approach to
Human Rights and Governance"
on our blog.
- [3/11/13] Dr. Ahmad argues that "Holder's Answer to Rand Paul Is
Not Good Enough" on our blog.
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