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Religion of Peace?: Islam, without the comforting cliches.
Western societies -- when faced with immigrants who adhere to traditional faiths and customs, and who maintain a suspicion-laden distance between themselves and the surrounding civil order -- tend to respond with overtures of friendship. The message relayed to the new communities that have sought protection in the West is one of tolerance and understanding. By showing that we are no threat to them, we hope to ensure that they will be no threat to us. This strategy has worked with Hindus and Jews and the many sects of migrating Christians. But will it work with Muslims? When from the pulpits of the mosques that have been built in our major cities there sounds the call to ...
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- Magazine article from: Midstream Lappen, Alyssa A. May 1, 2003 700+ words
In The Path of God: Islam and Political Power, by Daniel Pipes...edition of Daniel Pipes's In the Path of God, much has changed in the Islamic political...Khomeinist and Wahhabi interpretations of Islam. One might presume a 20-year-old...
- The Rights of God: Islam, Human Rights, and Comparative Ethics.(Book review)
- Magazine article from: Journal of Church and State Shedinger, Robert F. June 22, 2008 700+ words
The Rights of God:: Islam, Human Rights, and Comparative Ethics...dialogue about human rights. Given that Islam is associated today more than any other...fundamentalist Islamist formulations of Islam (Qutb was associated with the Muslim...
- Bush `enemy of God and Islam'.(News)
- Newspaper article from: Daily Post (Liverpool, England) March 29, 2004 700+ words
...PRESIDENT George Bush is the enemy of God and Islam, the new Hamas chief in Gaza said yesterday,declaring that ``God's war'' against the United...knew that Bush is the enemy of God, the enemy of Islam and Muslims,''Rantisi said...
- Nature, Man, and God in Medieval Islam: 'Abd Allah Baydawi's Text, Tawali'...
- Magazine article from: Theological Studies Omar, Irfan A. December 1, 2005 700+ words
...NATURE, MAN, AND GOD IN MEDIEVAL ISLAM: 'ABD ALLAH BAYDAWI...medievalists, scholars of Islam, and those interested...as the knowledge of God, the essence and...theology dealing with God, prophecy, the Imamate...prophetic model found in Islam. The present translation...
- People of the Books.(NEW AND NOTEWORTHY)(Three Faiths, One God: Judaism,...
- Magazine article from: Sojourners Magazine December 1, 2005 700+ words
...religious pluralism that go beyond presenting the tenets of each faith are rare. But Three Faiths, One God: Judaism, Christianity, Islam, a two-hour documentary by Gerald Krell and Meyer Odze, not only compares similarities and differences...
- FORMER NUN OFFERS PLENTY TO THINK ABOUT; KAREN ARMSTRONG'S TRINITY OF BOOKS ON...
- Newspaper article from: The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY) January 27, 2002 700+ words
...books - "A History of God" (Ballantine, $15), "The Battle for God" (Ballantine, $15) and "Islam: A Short History...bestseller "A History of God," takes readers to the...Judaism, Christianity and Islam," the 1993 book begins...
- Our God: Pinning faith on united future; Relations between Christianity and...
- Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England) April 24, 2002 700+ words
...there is an awareness that Islam began later than Christianity...what Christians accept as God's last word in the world...them to find a place for Islam. Jesus said: 'I am...life, nobody comes to God except through me.' Islam has more of a problem...
- "And God created ...": creativity in Islam.
- Magazine article from: International Journal of Kurdish Studies Beaudin, Rebecca H. January 1, 2005 700+ words
...bring into existence <God created heaven and the earth...of conventional expression. Islam, in its essence, is a fitting...will explore the ways in which Islam embodies the religious attitude...implicitly, that connection. Islam is well suited to this investigation...
