Category: Inter-faith

The Seeker: Let Muhammad Ali, not bin Laden, represent Islam in America. Osama bin Laden was an absolute embarrassment to all decent Muslims. Unlike the proud warrior known as the Prophet Muhammad, bin Laden was a cowardly killer of unarmed women and children. People like Muhammad Ali (a great warrior during his time) promote Islam as a respectable religion of peace. This was a common representation before the atrocities of 9/11. Since then blood, savagery and ignorance has tarnished the image.

US Mosque Hosts Passover Seder | USA | English. Andrea Barron is performing an annual ritual: lighting two candles for a Passover Seder, the ceremonial retelling of the ancient Israelites’ exodus from slavery in Egypt more than 3,000 years ago. The traditional elements are all in place – including the Seder plate which holds unleavened bread, green vegetables, bitter herbs and a shank bone.  However, what is unusual about the evening’s Seder is that it is taking place in the basement of the All Dulles Area Muslim Society (ADAMS), a mosque outside of Washington, D.C.

SLC Presbyterians provide free copies of Islam’s holy book – Salt Lake City Political Buzz | Examiner.com. The Wasatch Presbyterian Church is buying dozens of copies of the Quran and giving them away in the hope of bridging the gap created by extremists last March.

Interested in a career in community organizing but wondering how to move forward? The Community Organizing Residency (COR) is a six-month, paid residency for people from different faith backgrounds who want to make community organizing their profession. They will gain social justice experience working with leading community organizing groups in New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles, and the San Francisco Bay Area. Read about 2010 – 2011 Resident Naim Shah in the LA Times: Working to boost social activism among Muslims Organizers bring people together to act on their shared values and interests, to create more meaning in their lives,…

About 1001cgstories.org | 1001 Stories of Common Ground. Designed for people who believe that changing the world begins with positive change at the interpersonal level, users are invited to add their story to the many others that exist around the globe. While the site is open to all, it is especially for those in the Arab world, whose stories of positive change are often underrepresented in media. A single story has the ability to change attitudes and behaviour, dispelling the myth that the world is black and white or that stereotypes define people or actions. If one story has such…

America’s True History of Religious Tolerance | History & Archaeology | Smithsonian Magazine. In the storybook version most of us learned in school, the Pilgrims came to America aboard the Mayflower in search of religious freedom in 1620. The Puritans soon followed, for the same reason. Ever since these religious dissidents arrived at their shining “city upon a hill,” as their governor John Winthrop called it, millions from around the world have done the same, coming to an America where they found a welcome melting pot in which everyone was free to practice his or her own faith.  The problem…

Mapping Religious Life in New York, Block by Block – NYTimes.com. Tony Carnes and I met for breakfast at Penelope, a homey little cafe across Lexington Avenue from First Moravian Church. Penelope sits one block north and three avenues east of Marble Collegiate Church, where Norman Vincent Peale preached for 52 years, and it is a 2.8-mile drive from Sons of Moses, the tiny Lower East Side synagogue where you can still hear Lithuanian Yiddish.  This is how Tony Carnes sees New York City. A Texas native, who came to New York as a young man to study at the…