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From: Ali Naquvi <alinaquvi@yahoo.com>
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Subject: ACTION ALERT: Anti-shia speaker on ISNA Intrafaith Panel
From: Ali Naquvi <alinaquvi@yahoo.com>
To:
Sent: Friday, August 30, 2013 10:34 PM
Subject: ACTION ALERT: Anti-shia speaker on ISNA Intrafaith Panel
Hello and Salaam all,
This year the ISNA Convention is conducting 2 panels on intrafaith engagement in an attempt to build bridges between various Muslim communities, which is excellent. Unfortunately, one of the members of the panel, "Theology & the Ethics of Pluralism", is virulently anti-Shia, as can be seen in the video below. This is the sort of rhetoric that is being used to justify the killing of Shias in Pakistan, and elsewhere around the world.
This year the ISNA Convention is conducting 2 panels on intrafaith engagement in an attempt to build bridges between various Muslim communities, which is excellent. Unfortunately, one of the members of the panel, "Theology & the Ethics of Pluralism", is virulently anti-Shia, as can be seen in the video below. This is the sort of rhetoric that is being used to justify the killing of Shias in Pakistan, and elsewhere around the world.
Please contact the Director of the ISNA Convention ASAP (the panel is Saturday at 6pm) and share your outrage that such a person is speaking at the 50th anniversary conference of an inclusive, national Muslim organization like ISNA. And ask that Yasir Qadhi, at the very least, be taken off that panel. As sectarianism continues to spread in the Muslim World, the last thing we need is extremist rhetoric like that here.
Basharat Saleem, Director of ISNA Convention
(317) 839-1825 or bsaleem@isna.net
Please share this action alert with others. See the full descriptions of both intra-faith panels below.
Best,
Mohammad Ali
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Saturday, August 31, 2013
*SAVED SECT? THEOLOGY AND ETHICS OF PLURALISM*
Session 9A
6:15 – 7:30 PM
Hall A
Sunni, Shia, Salafi, Sufi... just to name a few schools of thought within our community. Each school sees itself as rightly guided and lays claim to being the "saved sect." So how do Muslims navigate the choppy waters of intra-faith diversity? How do we remain faithful to our particularities while accepting differences? This session will examine the theology of inclusiveness and the ethics of disagreement in building the beloved community.
Speakers: Tariq Ramadan, Yasir Qadhi
Moderator: Sohaib Sultan
Sunday, September 1, 2013
*SUNNIS AND SHIAS COMING TOGETHER*
11:30 AM – 1:00 PM
Session 12E
144BC
As a developing Muslim community in America, we have the opportunity and obligation to transcend some of the historical divisions that continue to plague parts of the Muslim world. Sunnis and Shias share much in common, but also have major differences. How do we come to understand the other while maintaining our own traditions? How do we move beyond difference to work with each other on the national and local levels?
Speakers: Najah Bazzy, Hassan Al Qazwani, Tarek Elgawhary, Muzammil Siddiqi
Moderator: Bahram A. Nahidian
*SAVED SECT? THEOLOGY AND ETHICS OF PLURALISM*
Session 9A
6:15 – 7:30 PM
Hall A
Sunni, Shia, Salafi, Sufi... just to name a few schools of thought within our community. Each school sees itself as rightly guided and lays claim to being the "saved sect." So how do Muslims navigate the choppy waters of intra-faith diversity? How do we remain faithful to our particularities while accepting differences? This session will examine the theology of inclusiveness and the ethics of disagreement in building the beloved community.
Speakers: Tariq Ramadan, Yasir Qadhi
Moderator: Sohaib Sultan
Sunday, September 1, 2013
*SUNNIS AND SHIAS COMING TOGETHER*
11:30 AM – 1:00 PM
Session 12E
144BC
As a developing Muslim community in America, we have the opportunity and obligation to transcend some of the historical divisions that continue to plague parts of the Muslim world. Sunnis and Shias share much in common, but also have major differences. How do we come to understand the other while maintaining our own traditions? How do we move beyond difference to work with each other on the national and local levels?
Speakers: Najah Bazzy, Hassan Al Qazwani, Tarek Elgawhary, Muzammil Siddiqi
Moderator: Bahram A. Nahidian
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