Iowa. . .another state to boycott?! Yes, and this is my own way to say who will support: Yes, I use amazon for many things I need/want. .. mostly used books. But I've for many years avoided giving any of my few dollars to Texas and Arizona. . .and now have been adding other states as well. Anyone know how to access the home state of those who do not list such in their seller's profile? Follow my suit? It's one thing I do have control over. ..or think I do.
Working with old Qur'an manuscripts and just annotated this one: Surat 43 Al- Ahzab (The Confederates), v. 62-74. Medina sura (so deals life in a specific place, time & how best to build good communities). But these verses speak to Trust (as in the legal entity Trusteeship): "We did indeed offer the Trust to the Heavens & Earth & the Mountains. But they refused to undertake it, being afraid. But Man undertook it & he was indeed unjust and foolish." v.73 (Yusuf Ali trans.) The Qur'an: Black script within cloud bands against a gold ground; Jowzjan, Afghanistan,1862 AD. (A Shabbas)
From a woman's perspective? I always share with my audience that upon Khadija's death, Muhammad became the single parent of teenage daughters! There was quite a gap here until he married again. And being an orphan he could not "palm off" these girls to grandmothers or aunties to care for. Think about what it says about this man.
He didn't apologize for his actions towards the victims. He said he was "wrong" (perhaps his meaning to himself "wrong not to have checked that the recording equipment") and he apologized if he had offended anyone. How often in the past two years I have heard such apologies. . . never directing them as they should have been to the person in the room who was harmed. . .instead deflecting any personal responsibility for his/her actions. I have tried to teach my own children to take their apology a few steps further. . .look the person straight in the eye and yes, tell them how you feel..."I'm sorry. . I apologize" and THEN tell them what you want them to do: please "forgive me". Without that last step, we are not allowing the other person to be a forgiving person. Harsh? Old fashioned? It is about rebuilding a relationship.
Oh, Tom. . . I'm 74 and someone sent me this link last night and I openly sobbed (is there any other way). Look and listen to the glimpse of who we were as Americans. . . in 1985, about the time Nina was in middle school or maybe high school. https://www.facebook.com/soulrebelsbrassband/?pnref=story
That "peace" / Salaam / Shalom represents a kind of wholeness. . .a coming together of all the loose parts and pieces. . . a reconciliation. When such a state is embodied in a person the Arabic puts an "m" in front of the consonant root "slm" and makes the word muslim.
I've used lower case letters here because there are no upper and lower case letters in Arabic and so I think we confuse the word when we translate it into English and give it a capital "M" as in "Muslim" - turning it into some kind of private club for which one holds a membership card (as in Democrat vs. democrat).
I think this is the way we should read the Qur'an's references to previous prophets as "muslims". . . for the only word in Arabic for a person embodying such attributes is the word "muslim" (otherwise it sounds like some kind of wacky plagiarism). It is how the language works!
We use the same grammatical rule is changing a school lesson DRS/darasa into a school/madrasa, a grave QBR/qabar into a cemetery/maqbar. . . and so on.
Four groups of Muslim women on this issue: 1) My reading of the Quran says it is required; 2) My reading of the Quran says this is a choice, I choose to wear it; 3) My reading of the Quran says this is a choice, I choose not to wear it; 4) I had never read the Quran. . .someone else tells me it is required. For all four groups of women (and I am in one of those groups) we'd like to say loud and clear, "GET OVER IT." What we wear on our heads has little to do with who we are as women. . . what are our issues are. . . what drives out lives on a day-to-day basis.
"For example, democracy in Mali collapsed following a military coup d’etat in March 2012s,. . ." A failure of democracy? The the elected President had no issues with coming elections which were to take place in two months. . .a 'miliary coup' was carried out by five officers just returned from training in Texas. . . all this only a month after the President said "No thank you" to US offers to make Mali part of AFRICOM to "combat terrorism lurking on Mali's borders" (Algeria and Morocco said "yes, thank you".) Suddenly upon the coup, there were extremists armed with weapons the US "left behind" in Libya. . need I go on. I do no believe for a moment this fits any studied pattern of economic and democratic trends. . .covered by this study. Mali's model Islamic democracy was interrupted?
"At that stage it will also depend on the willingness of other political actors in Iraq – Sunni Muslim and Kurdish politicians as well as members of the country’s minorities – as to whether they would be willing to enter into new, non-sectarian, non-ethnic alliances." Here's a problem: adopting the US media's (where did it begin?) division of Iraq into three groups: Sunni, Shiite, and Kurd. . .ignoring the fact that the Kurds are Muslims and overwhelmingly Sunni Muslims! This is like adding apples and oranges guys. . . If you are looking at religious breakdown you have a country divided between Sunni Muslims and Shiite Muslims. . . and if you are looking at ethnicity/language then you have Kurds and Arabs. . .of course with other groups in both categories - ethnic/language and religion - as well.
I am certain my Iraqi relatives would have - at the time and now - described "Chalabi" as very deserving of the name. . .dropping the final "i". (Remember Iraqi's pronounce the "k" as "ch".)
I have read and re-read (that's how helpful it has been) Khaled Abou El-Fadl's The Great Threat: Wrestling Islam From The Extremists. . . and urge readers to do likewise. It will add immensely to the conversation described in this article. . . and perhaps will give us all a starting point by defining words we use but not always in the same way. If I am in conversation, it's helpful to have us all agreeing on the meaning (if only for the sake of our conversation) words such as: puritan, fundamentalist, extremist, etc. Abou El-Fadl's are not exactly how I would have defined them. ..but that's the point, if we can agree upon their meanings for the sake of our conversation. . . then we can have a conversation.
"Sen. Gaylord Nelson (D-Wi) (d. 1981)" and Congressman Pete McCloskey (R-CA) (still living). Pete McCloskey has also been a champion of Palestinian rights, attending the First International Conference on the Question of Palestine, in Geneva, 29 August - 7 September 1983. It's all about Justice. . . always has been. . .the earth. . . us humans. . . all connected.
A colleague told me: "I spend almost an entire class period on how real Islam is supposed to protect and respect other cultures and religions. Students are always amazed. I take my Koran with post-it notes. It is effective. Then I end the unit with the rise and origins of Wahabbism." I wanted to follow suit and mark those mentioned in the article, but one has a typo: the second one should be 5:32 not 5:53. Very useful article and the suggestion here.
Iowa. . .another state to boycott?! Yes, and this is my own way to say who will support: Yes, I use amazon for many things I need/want. .. mostly used books. But I've for many years avoided giving any of my few dollars to Texas and Arizona. . .and now have been adding other states as well. Anyone know how to access the home state of those who do not list such in their seller's profile? Follow my suit? It's one thing I do have control over. ..or think I do.
Working with old Qur'an manuscripts and just annotated this one: Surat 43 Al- Ahzab (The Confederates), v. 62-74. Medina sura (so deals life in a specific place, time & how best to build good communities). But these verses speak to Trust (as in the legal entity Trusteeship): "We did indeed offer the Trust to the Heavens & Earth & the Mountains. But they refused to undertake it, being afraid. But Man undertook it & he was indeed unjust and foolish." v.73 (Yusuf Ali trans.) The Qur'an: Black script within cloud bands against a gold ground; Jowzjan, Afghanistan,1862 AD. (A Shabbas)
From a woman's perspective? I always share with my audience that upon Khadija's death, Muhammad became the single parent of teenage daughters! There was quite a gap here until he married again. And being an orphan he could not "palm off" these girls to grandmothers or aunties to care for. Think about what it says about this man.
He didn't apologize for his actions towards the victims. He said he was "wrong" (perhaps his meaning to himself "wrong not to have checked that the recording equipment") and he apologized if he had offended anyone. How often in the past two years I have heard such apologies. . . never directing them as they should have been to the person in the room who was harmed. . .instead deflecting any personal responsibility for his/her actions. I have tried to teach my own children to take their apology a few steps further. . .look the person straight in the eye and yes, tell them how you feel..."I'm sorry. . I apologize" and THEN tell them what you want them to do: please "forgive me". Without that last step, we are not allowing the other person to be a forgiving person. Harsh? Old fashioned? It is about rebuilding a relationship.
Oh, Tom. . . I'm 74 and someone sent me this link last night and I openly sobbed (is there any other way). Look and listen to the glimpse of who we were as Americans. . . in 1985, about the time Nina was in middle school or maybe high school. https://www.facebook.com/soulrebelsbrassband/?pnref=story
That "peace" / Salaam / Shalom represents a kind of wholeness. . .a coming together of all the loose parts and pieces. . . a reconciliation. When such a state is embodied in a person the Arabic puts an "m" in front of the consonant root "slm" and makes the word muslim.
I've used lower case letters here because there are no upper and lower case letters in Arabic and so I think we confuse the word when we translate it into English and give it a capital "M" as in "Muslim" - turning it into some kind of private club for which one holds a membership card (as in Democrat vs. democrat).
I think this is the way we should read the Qur'an's references to previous prophets as "muslims". . . for the only word in Arabic for a person embodying such attributes is the word "muslim" (otherwise it sounds like some kind of wacky plagiarism). It is how the language works!
We use the same grammatical rule is changing a school lesson DRS/darasa into a school/madrasa, a grave QBR/qabar into a cemetery/maqbar. . . and so on.
Four groups of Muslim women on this issue: 1) My reading of the Quran says it is required; 2) My reading of the Quran says this is a choice, I choose to wear it; 3) My reading of the Quran says this is a choice, I choose not to wear it; 4) I had never read the Quran. . .someone else tells me it is required. For all four groups of women (and I am in one of those groups) we'd like to say loud and clear, "GET OVER IT." What we wear on our heads has little to do with who we are as women. . . what are our issues are. . . what drives out lives on a day-to-day basis.
"For example, democracy in Mali collapsed following a military coup d’etat in March 2012s,. . ." A failure of democracy? The the elected President had no issues with coming elections which were to take place in two months. . .a 'miliary coup' was carried out by five officers just returned from training in Texas. . . all this only a month after the President said "No thank you" to US offers to make Mali part of AFRICOM to "combat terrorism lurking on Mali's borders" (Algeria and Morocco said "yes, thank you".) Suddenly upon the coup, there were extremists armed with weapons the US "left behind" in Libya. . need I go on. I do no believe for a moment this fits any studied pattern of economic and democratic trends. . .covered by this study. Mali's model Islamic democracy was interrupted?
"At that stage it will also depend on the willingness of other political actors in Iraq – Sunni Muslim and Kurdish politicians as well as members of the country’s minorities – as to whether they would be willing to enter into new, non-sectarian, non-ethnic alliances." Here's a problem: adopting the US media's (where did it begin?) division of Iraq into three groups: Sunni, Shiite, and Kurd. . .ignoring the fact that the Kurds are Muslims and overwhelmingly Sunni Muslims! This is like adding apples and oranges guys. . . If you are looking at religious breakdown you have a country divided between Sunni Muslims and Shiite Muslims. . . and if you are looking at ethnicity/language then you have Kurds and Arabs. . .of course with other groups in both categories - ethnic/language and religion - as well.
I am certain my Iraqi relatives would have - at the time and now - described "Chalabi" as very deserving of the name. . .dropping the final "i". (Remember Iraqi's pronounce the "k" as "ch".)
I have read and re-read (that's how helpful it has been) Khaled Abou El-Fadl's The Great Threat: Wrestling Islam From The Extremists. . . and urge readers to do likewise. It will add immensely to the conversation described in this article. . . and perhaps will give us all a starting point by defining words we use but not always in the same way. If I am in conversation, it's helpful to have us all agreeing on the meaning (if only for the sake of our conversation) words such as: puritan, fundamentalist, extremist, etc. Abou El-Fadl's are not exactly how I would have defined them. ..but that's the point, if we can agree upon their meanings for the sake of our conversation. . . then we can have a conversation.
"Sen. Gaylord Nelson (D-Wi) (d. 1981)" and Congressman Pete McCloskey (R-CA) (still living). Pete McCloskey has also been a champion of Palestinian rights, attending the First International Conference on the Question of Palestine, in Geneva, 29 August - 7 September 1983. It's all about Justice. . . always has been. . .the earth. . . us humans. . . all connected.
A colleague told me: "I spend almost an entire class period on how real Islam is supposed to protect and respect other cultures and religions. Students are always amazed. I take my Koran with post-it notes. It is effective. Then I end the unit with the rise and origins of Wahabbism." I wanted to follow suit and mark those mentioned in the article, but one has a typo: the second one should be 5:32 not 5:53. Very useful article and the suggestion here.