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Executive Director Schwartz, "An Attack on Christians," on the
Gemayel assassination, The Spectator [London], November 25,
2006
Executive Director Schwartz, "When Rosh Hashanah and Ramadan Come
Together," Family Security Matters, September 26, 2006
Imaad Malik, "Muslims Should Reach Out to Christians and Jews,"
Family Security Matters, September 26, 2006
Executive Director Schwartz, "The Prison Preacher Problem," New
York Post, September 26, 2006
Executive Director Schwartz, "Official Myopia," The Daily Standard,
September 6, 2006
Executive Director Schwartz, Exchange on Christians in the
Albanian Lands, First Things, August/September 2006
Executive Director Schwartz, "The Hezbollah-Sunni Hoax," Family
Security Matters, August 23, 2006
Imaad Malik, "Islam and American Democracy," Family Security
Matters, August 21, 2006
Executive Director Schwartz, "A Threat to the World" -- On Pakistani
radicals in the UK, The Spectator [London], August 17, 2006
Executive Director Schwartz, "Haifa and Sarajevo," Family
Security Matters, August 16, 2006
Executive Director Schwartz, Transatlantic Air Terror Conspiracy and
Pakistani Extremists, The Daily Standard, August 10, 2006
Executive Director Schwartz, An Islamic Defense of Israel, from
Dershowitzs What Israel Means to Me, Wiley, 2006 [Posted
June 21, 2006]
The Woodrow Wilson Center, in cooperation with The European
Institute and the Center for Islamic Pluralism, Presents Conference:
Euro-Islam: The Dynamics of Effective Integration, June 21, 2006
Prophet Muhammad (SAWS) astride the steed Buraq in the Night Journey
-- Painted in 1494 C.E.
That theocracies do exist and must be resisted by U.S. foreign
policy -- is ably demonstrated in the anthology Radical
Islam's Rules: The Worldwide Spread of Extreme Shari'a Law
(Rowman & Littlefield, 226 pp., $27.95). Edited by Paul Marshall, a
senior fellow at Freedom House's Center for Religious Freedom, the
book includes ten essays describing how radical Muslims - including
the Wahhabists of Saudi Arabia - have fostered the rise of
religion-based oppression worldwide. (To
order and see complete review)
One of the volume's contributors, Stephen Schwartz, points out
that the legal system favored by today's Muslim extremists is
-not traditional- but radical:
It is not
based on shari'a as understood during more than 1,000
years of Islamic jurisprudence but on a crude and
ultrasimplistic interpretation that rejects the shari'a
embodied in the four established Sunni legal schools.
A harbinger of a better future - pointed out by Center for
Religious Freedom director Nina Shea in her concluding essay -
is the last-minute inclusion of protections of religious freedom
in the new Iraqi constitution.
Press Release:
Moderate Islam Gets a Washington Address
March 25, 2005
The Center for Islamic Pluralism (CIP), a Washington-based
platform for moderate Muslims in North America, announces its
opening today.
CIP's aims are to:
Promote moderate Islam in the U.S. and globally;
Educate the American public, media, and government about
moderate Islam; Oppose
the influence of militant Islam in the United States and abroad.
Promote authentic and constructive interfaith dialogue between
Muslims and adherents of other faiths.
We define "moderate Islam" in the American context as an Islam that
finds its proper and equal place as one among the many religions
represented in America, with rights neither greater nor lesser than
any other. Moderate Islam recognizes its own history, the need to
evolve, and the urgency for an intellectual revival, especially with
regard to non-Muslims, women, and political governance. The CIP
emphasizes pluralism to signal that it believes not in the
tolerance of non-Muslims, but in their true acceptance.
The executive director of the Center, Stephen Suleyman Schwartz,
notes that "Many Americans wonder about Islamic claims to be a
'religion of peace.' This statement is credible only to the degree
that Muslims work to make their faith truly one of pluralism. Unless
there is an Islam as American as the faiths practiced by
Protestants, Catholics, Jews, Hindus, and Buddhists, there will be
no Islam in America. Thus do we see CIP's role as critical."
The founders of the Center for Islamic Pluralism are (affiliations
for identification only):
Kemal Silay, CIP president: professor of Ottoman and modern
Turkish culture at Indiana University.
Stephen Suleyman Schwartz, CIP executive director:
author of The Two Faces of Islam (Doubleday), and
associate of the Faculty of Islamic Studies, Sarajevo.
Nawab Agha, chairman, American Muslim Congress.
Zuhdi Jasser, chairman, American Islamic Forum for
Democracy. Ahmed
Subhy Mansour, former professor, Al-Azhar University, Cairo,
author of Penalty of Apostasy: A Study of Islamic Law.
Salim Mansur, professor of political science, University of
Western Ontario, and columnist, Toronto Sun.
Khaleel Mohammed, assistant professor of religious studies
at San Diego State University.
Tashbih Sayyed, publisher, Muslim World Today.
The CIP is a 501(c)(3) tax exempt public charity. Contributions are
deductible under section 170 of the Code. It is qualified to
receive tax deductible bequests, devises, transfers, and gifts under
section 2055, 2106, or 2622 of the code.
Please direct inquiries to
schwartz@islamicpluralism.org. Or call
Stephen Suleyman Schwartz at 1.202.232.1750. Fax toll-free to
1.866.792.9439.
President:
Kemal Silay, Professor of Ottoman and Modern Turkish
Culture at Indiana University (affiliation
for identification only)
Photos: Stephen Schwartz
The Center for Islamic Pluralism is a 501(c)(3) tax exempt public
charity. Contributions are deductible under section 170 of the
Internal Revenue Code. It is qualified to receive tax
deductible bequests, devises, transfers, and gifts under sections
2055, 2106, or 2622 of the code. For further information, please
contact us.
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