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9/11 A Decade Later: Interfaith Coalition To Encourage Religious Tolerance On September 11th

“Although Prepare New York is an interfaith coalition, the work we are doing is for the city, is for the country,” says Dr. Hussein Rashid of the Quest Center for Spiritual Inquiry. “So we want to do is reach people where they feel comfortable, not where we feel comfortable.”

An American Muslim’s prayer: Forget love, let’s just be civil (COMMENTARY) – The Washington Post

An American Muslim’s prayer: Forget love, let’s just be civil (COMMENTARY) – The Washington Post. Love is a nice sentiment. Real love, though, is work. I can have love in my heart, but to love someone is to know that person. It means having compassion and empathy, and being engaged. You and the person you love have to commit to each other. But I do not know you enough to love you, and I do not want to have to get to know you that well. It is too much work. I do appreciate the idea. I know it is…

Quoted: #MySubwayAd: People Respond To Anti-Islamic Subway Ads

#MySubwayAd: People Respond To Anti-Islamic Subway Ads. Muslim and non-Muslims alike took to Twitter today to denounce the Islamophobic ad. Their responses were both humorous and thoughtful. Below are some of our favorite tweets:

Scholars of religion and biblical literature object to having conference badges coded and scanned

Scholars of religion and biblical literature object to having conference badges coded and scanned. Hussein Rashid, independent scholar of religion, also tweeted that he’d seen nothing in his conference registration documents to suggest QR codes were a possibility. The society was therefore retroactively changing its terms of attendance, he said, raising the possibility that someone could refuse to be scanned, be denied entry and later challenge the academy legally.

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