njgal
August 23, 2010, 6:30pm
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As controversy swirls around a proposed Islamic center near New York City’s ground zero and a handful of other mosque projects around the country, students will arrive this week at a California school that is aiming to become the country’s first accredited Muslim college.
Zaytuna College hopes to the train a generation of Islamic clerics and professionals in a Western Islamic tradition that school officials say is ill understood by many of the foreign-born imams currently working in the United States
entire article here: http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2010/08/22/california-school-aims-to-be-countrys-first-accredited-muslim-college/?iref=allsearch **
CM
August 23, 2010, 7:25pm
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Re: More controversy: U.S first accredited Muslim college in Cali open tomorrow
Oh ****ing great. Now we got Hippy Islam. God damn hippies.
X2
August 23, 2010, 7:28pm
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Re: More controversy: U.S first accredited Muslim college in Cali open tomorrow
make muttah not war
TLK
August 23, 2010, 7:31pm
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Re: More controversy: U.S first accredited Muslim college in Cali open tomorrow
make muttah not war
Tumhari to dili khwahish hee yehi hai
Re: More controversy: U.S first accredited Muslim college in Cali open tomorrow
Very well said by sh. Hamza Yusuf. May Allah preserve him....I'm so proud of him.
njgal
August 23, 2010, 8:02pm
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Re: More controversy: U.S first accredited Muslim college in Cali open tomorrow
me too hareem. I know peoplee refer to him as a driver for "modern Islam" but what he says makes sense in my brain.
njgal
August 23, 2010, 8:04pm
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Re: More controversy: U.S first accredited Muslim college in Cali open tomorrow
Oh ****ing great. Now we got Hippy Islam. God damn hippies.
Isn't it time we see the other side of extremist Islam (I am kidding) - I don't think there is anything hippie about it.
Re: More controversy: U.S first accredited Muslim college in Cali open tomorrow
me too hareem. I know peoplee refer to him as a driver for "modern Islam" but what he says makes sense in my brain.
He's the bringer of traditional Islam in the west. I don't understand how "modern Islam" can be applied to Sh. Hamza.
Jafri
August 23, 2010, 9:14pm
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Re: More controversy: U.S first accredited Muslim college in Cali open tomorrow
make muttah not war
Quoted for truth.
Re: More controversy: U.S first accredited Muslim college in Cali open tomorrow
wow. ok.
NaMaan
August 24, 2010, 12:14am
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Re: More controversy: U.S first accredited Muslim college in Cali open tomorrow
Anything is possible in California
Good news :k:
Re: More controversy: U.S first accredited Muslim college in Cali open tomorrow
This is the guy who has problems with Muslims …heck he has problems with the President too.
Frank J. Gaffney Jr. (born April 5, 1953) is an American defense policy analyst and founder of the Center for Security Policy (CSP). He founded the CSP in 1988, serving as its president until 2023, and thereafter as executive chairman. In the 1970s and 1980s, he worked for the federal government in multiple posts, including as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Nuclear Forces and Arms Control Policy from 1983 to 1987, and seven months as Acting Assistant Secretary of Defense for Interna Ga...
njgal
August 24, 2010, 4:53pm
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Re: More controversy: U.S first accredited Muslim college in Cali open tomorrow
He's the bringer of traditional Islam in the west. I don't understand how "modern Islam" can be applied to Sh. Hamza.
I was talking about his stance on the creating a modern muslimah, torelance of everyone, the way he guides muslims to adapt to this world is why I would call him more of a modern sheikh.
Re: More controversy: U.S first accredited Muslim college in Cali open tomorrow
Oh okay, i know what you mean. :)
