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Summary of
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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 2004
- 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 2004
- 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 2004
- 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 2004
- 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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July 2004
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June 2004
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April 2004
- 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 2004
- 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 2004
- 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 2004
- 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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