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Islam

  • "Islam's Long War Within" - Reza Aslan, Harvard Divinity Bulletin, Autumn 2005
  • Violence and Crisis in Islam - Krista Tippett's interview with practicing Muslim and leading scholar of Islamic studies, Vincent Cornell, on her public radio show, Speaking of Faith, where he paints a bleak picture of chaos and drift within Islam which may presage renewal or the continued decay of the religion he loves.
  • Grand Ayatollah Al-Sistani - Site of Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Husaini Sistani, leader of Shiite Muslims in Iraq
  • Islam: A Short History , by Karen Armstrong - Very readable summary, from 7th century Muhammad to the present, which includes: the origins of the Shii/Sunni Muslim rivalry; the growth and decline of the Islamic empire and its essential contributions to Western science and theology; and the origins and impact of modern revolutionary Islam. Disabuses us of our myth about Islam as authoritarian, fundamentalist and fanatical.
  • American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee - Grassroots civil rights organization which welcomes people of all backgrounds, faiths and ethnicities, with chapters in Orlando and Miami
  • Council on American- Islamic Relations - Grassroots organization dedicated to presenting an Islamic perspective on issues of importance to the American public, and to empowering the Muslim community through political and social activism (Florida Chapter)
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