I will be giving a talk at Iona College on Thursday, Oct. 13, 2016 at 7PM. The talk will be on Muslims in America, Islamophobia, and the Presidential election.
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As you all know, next weekend is the Progressive Faith Blog Con. I’ll be there, and I hope to you meet you there as well. This weekend, I’m in Copenhagen for a conference called Muslim Leaders of Tomorrow (although they don’t have a website today). The press release is here. No outlets for laptops, so no live blogging, but I’ll try to put summary of the sessions and my thoughts on them as I can. Technorati Tags: MLT, progfaithblogcon
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