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what mosque at Ground Zero? why all Americans have a stake in Cordoba House
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Aziz Poonawalla
When we speak of national tragedies like 9-11, we often focus on the word “tragedy” and neglect the word “national”. The measure of a national tragedy is how it affects everyone in the nation, often in different ways. For the muslim-American community, the impact was to wrench our attention away from our pressing issues: social…
an American Imam replies to an American Jihadist
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Aziz Poonawalla
Abu Laith Luqman Ahmad is the imam and director of the Masjid Ibrahim Islamic Center in Sacramento, CA. His biography reveals him to be an authentically American Imam, who has benefited from scholarship in the Islamic world and life experience in the inner-city neighborhoods of inner-city Philadelphia. Anwar al Awlaki, in contrast, lacks formal Islamic…
Canadian and American Imams issue fatwa against terrorist attacks
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Aziz Poonawalla
Last week, a group of twenty Imams from across the United States and Canada, all affiliated with the Islamic Supremem Council of Canada, issued a fatwa (religious edict) declaring that any attack on America or Canada is equivalent to an attack on the millions of muslims living in these nations. The goal of this fatwa…
word cloud and transcript: Obama’s Nobel speech
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Aziz Poonawalla
These are the remarks by President Obama in Oslo, Norway at the acceptance ceremony for his Nobel Peace Prize. Click to enlarge the word cloud – which features “America” quite prominently, interestingly enough. Democracy Arsenal highlights two passages in particular – pointing out that Obama seems to endorse the right of humanitarian intervention by force,…
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