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Summary of MFI
Activities
in 2004
Prior years activity: 1996-2000
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December 2004
- MFI board member Sharmin
Ahmad represented the Minaret of Freedom Institute at the U.N.
Conference on Islamophobia.
- MFI
President Dr.
Imad-ad-Dean Ahmad was interviewed by Religious News Service about
the Muslim holiday of Isra' and Mi`raj.
- Dr. Ahmad conducted a discussion of Maria Rosa
Menocal's book, The Ornament of the
World: How Muslims, Jews, and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance
in Muslim Spain at
a meeting of the "Abraham and Aristotle: All Their Children" discussion
group in Arlington, VA
- Dr. Ahmad gave an introduction to Islam to
Middle
East Orientation Course at Hurlburt Field in Florida.
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November
- MFI
President Dr.
Imad-ad-Dean Ahmad participated in a panel discussion on Separation
of School and State as a Civil Liberty at the 2004 SepCon conference.
- Dr. Ahmad conducted a discussion on
Ibn Tufayl's Alive, the Son of Awake
at
a meeting of the "Abraham and Aristotle: All Their Children" discussion
group in Arlington, VA.
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October
- MFI
President Dr.
Imad-ad-Dean Ahmad was interviewed by Voice of America's Kimberly
Russell on Muslim
Voters in America.
- The Minaret of Freedom annual
dinner was held
at the Four Points Sheraton in Bethesda, MD. Featured guest Prof.
David Cole of Georgetown University spoke on the subject of the
struggle for civil liberties in America. Libertarian
Presidential candidate Michael Badnarik and surrogates for independent
candidate Ralph Nader and Green candidate David Cobb made brief
comments on Prof. Cole's
talk on the Patriot Act and other assaults on the civil liberties of
Americans.
- Dr. Ahmad and MFI Vice President Aly Abuzakouk
participated in the Middle Eastern NGO Summit on Peace and Prosperity
at the Dept. of State and US-AID.
- Dr. Ahmad gave a luncheon address at the Johns
Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies on Implications of
the Islamist Movement in Turkey on the Prospects for Reform in the
Muslim World.
- Dr. Ahmad gave an introduction to Islam to
Middle
East Orientation Course at Fort
Stewart, Georgia..
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September
- The Minaret of Freedom Institute shared a booth
at the Islamic Society of North America convention with the
Islamic-American Zakat Foundation and American Muslims for Jerusalem.
- Dr. Ahmad directed part one of a discussion of
Ibn Tufayl's Awake, the Son of Alive
at the forum on the Children of Aristotle and Abraham.
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August
- MFI
President Dr.
Imad-ad-Dean Ahmad was interviewed by Kaukab Smith on Muslim
Voters in America.
- Dr. Ahmad was interviewed by the Voice of
America on Muslim voting in the United States.
- Irene Bachchnyan of Radio Free Europe / Radio
Liberty interviewed Dr. Ahmad the controversy over movies about the
Crusades.
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May
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April
- Dr Ahmad gave a lecture on how free trade can
improve peaceful relations among
people of different cultures and religions at a seminar on free trade
sponsored by the Istituto Bruno Leoni in Milan, Italy. A lengthy article
"Vive Il Capitalismo" based on an interview with Dr. Ahmad appeared
in the newspaper Quotidiano Libero
on April 18 (p.
8).
- MFI Secretary Sharmin
Ahmad celebrated the American release of her new book: The Rainbow in the Heart.
- Dr. Ahmad conducted a discussion of
Al-Ghazali's Incoherence of the
Philosophers at
a meeting of the "Abraham and Aristotle: All Their Children" discussion
group in Arlington, VA.
- Dr. Ahmad provided a critical commentary of
Harun Yahya's DVD on the cosmological refutation of materialist
philosophy at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.
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March
- Dr. Ahmad gave a lecture on "Empire or Freedom:
You Can't Have Both" to the New
Jersey Libertarian Party convention in Galloway, NJ.
- Sharmin
Ahmad represented the Minaret of Freedom Institute at he United
Nations Commission on the
Status of Women Conference in New York. She is pictured at right
with
Islamic-American Zakat Foundation representative Queen Noor of
Jordan (left) and Ann Marie Nguyen of the U.N. Commission on Women
staff.
- Dr. Ahmad gave a guest lecture to Dr. Akbar
Ahmad's class on the "Clash/Dialogue of civilizations" at American
University.
- Dr.
Ahmad participated in a briefing session to University of Pennsylvania
students preparing to attend mock Arab League and U.N. sessions as the
Palestinian delegation.
- Dr. Ahmad was interviewed by the Islamic
Broadcasting Network on Muslims and Civil Liberties.
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February
- Dr. Ahmad moderated a United Associates for
Studies and Research roundtable discussion with Ed Miller, an
Orthodox Jew working on a book to be a common narrative of Jews and
Muslims on the "Views of Abraham."
- Dr. Ahmad was interviewed by Carlo Lottieri on
"Islam and Freedom" for Italy's Il
Domenicale magazine.
- Dr. Ahmad participated in an interview
regarding the "Paintball 11" (a.k.a the "Virginia Jihad Network" that
was covered by WPFW-AM in Washington, DC.
- Several members of the International Property
Rights Working Group met with Pete Smith of the House International
Affairs
Committee on property rights of women in Iraq. Dr. Ahmad noted that
Islamic law has historically protected the rights of women so long as
woman were included in its interpretation. Subsequently the Iraqis
agreed to an interim constitution which includes Islamic law
as a
source of legislation and which guarantees adequate
representation of women in the legislature to be elected.
- Dr. Ahmad was interviewed by the Islamic
Broadcasting Network on Muslims and Civil Liberties.
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January
- Dr, Ahmad spoke on "Speaking
Truth to Your
Brothers" at the Conference on Muslim Unity sponsored buy the Peace and Justice
Foundation at UDC.
- Dr. Ahmad's paper on “Conflict Within the
Islamic Civilization:
The Challenge of Disentangling Culture from Religion” has been accepted
for publication in Global Dialogue.
- Dr. Ahmad's paper on “Common Civilizational
Values as Perceived by an American Muslim” has been accepted for
inclusion in Akbar Ahmad and Brian Forst’s forthcoming book From Clash of Civilizations to Dialogue:
Visions of Public Figures of the World.
- Several members of the International Property
Rights Working Group met with aids on Capitol Hill for briefings on the
property rights of women in Iraq. Dr. Ahmad emphasized that Muslim
women are often denied their rights given under Muslim law, and that it
is
important for women to participate in the process of codifying law as
they
did in the earliest years of Islam, when more than 10% of the hadith
transmitters were women.
- Dr. Ahmad's review of Bat Ye'or' "Islam and
Dhimmitude" has been accepted for publication in the American Journal
of Islamic Social Sciences.
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