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.
Voice
of Russia interviewed Dr.
Imad-ad-Dean Ahmad, (president
of the Minaret of Freedom
Institute), Mohammed Omara
(Egyptian opposition activist),
and Nikolai Surkov (Middle East
observer at the Nezavisimaya
newspaper) on
the continuing struggle over
democracy and
institution-building in Egypt.
The
third 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 David Warren and
Dr. Jasser Auda on “The
Civil State and a New Fiqh of
Citizenship” is on our blog.
The Larousse Dictionary of
Liberalism ("Dictionaire du
Libéralisme") featuring an article by
Dr. Ahmad on Islam appeared in print.
May 2012
Dr.
Ahmad appeared with Hugh
Whelchel of the Reformed
Theological Seminary and Ed Hudgins,
Director of Advocacy of the
Atlas Society, at a panel discussion
of "the Role of Religion in the Public
Square" at the Fund for American
Studies.
Dr.
Ahmad was interviewed
on the Freedom News Hour /Survival
Meltdown on allegations that the
New York Police Department was
carrying out illegal surveillance of
Muslim students and their
organizations as far removed from
their jurisdiction as universities in
upstate New York, New Jersey, and
Connecticut, indeed all over the
northeast with neither cause nor
warrant.
