The Muslims in NY Project out of Columbia is having a conference next week. I know many of the panelists and have heard some of the presentations. If you have a chance to check it out, you should. Details here.
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Another Boston Globe op-ed about a statement from Gov. Howard Dean. Any commentary I give on these would be stale, but I think they raise some valid points, so I’d like to put them out to our (limited) readership. As an aside, I use the Globe b/c, unlike the NY Times, they offer free persistent linking.
You will read this, Insha’allah
Having just come from a conference in Cairo, I can agree that everyone will want to give you directions, regardless of what they know, and everyone says “insha’allah” every second word. However, the worst culprits of the second act are British Muslims at the conference who seemed really insecure about any identification they had. Cairo, Egypt