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As British Muslims emphatically
condemn the beheading of an army
drummer, the question arises as to
whether the Christian
converts suspected of the deed got
their understanding of Islam
from al-Muhajiroun founder
Omar Bakri Muhammad or from the
English Defense
League's Tommy Robinson:
The two countries who are the main
victims seem pleased by the speech
in Obama promised to move
responsibility for drone strikes
from the CIA to the defense
department, which would allow some
Congressional oversight,
but Code Pink isn't the only
human rights group that isn't buying
it:
“We the Rohingya Muslims have lived
in Myanmar for centuries. Yet they
say that we are illegal immigrants
from Bangladesh. But they are
welcoming those Bangladeshi illegal
immigrants to Myanmar just because
they are their fellow Buddhists”:
"Two-thirds of the kingdom’s
subjects are under 29, and ... there
have been an increasing number of
confrontations between Hai’a
men and Saudi youth. A number of
physical assaults and fatalities
attributed to Hai’a men,
widely publicized on Twitter and
Facebook, have inflamed public
opinion":
The Islamist PM's critics "claim
that Turkey does not have an
alcoholism problem and that only 1½
bottles of spirits are consumed per
person, per year in Turkey on
average, compared to 15 bottles in
the West. They say that youths
should instead be educated about the
harms that alcohol can cause":
Hollande's solution to
the blow-back from his
invasion of Mali? More violence:
The "foreign ministry said the
Syrian government would participate
'in order for Syrians themselves to
find a political path to a
solution', but the
main opposition group is
still trying ti make up its mind:
A Taliban spokesman claims
the compound is used "mostly by
members of the CIA":
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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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