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-17 posts tagged "Islam"
Aaron Benavides | Monday, March 25, 2019
Notre Dame’s Muslim Student Association (MSA) kicked off their annual Islam Awareness Week for 2019 last Saturday. The week is designed to share aspects of the Islamic faith with students across campus, sophomore and MSA president Muhammad Abubakar Mian said. “The main purpose of Islam Awareness Week is really just exposure,” Mian said. “It’s providing
Thomas Murphy | Wednesday, October 24, 2018
Mustafa Akyol, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute’s Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity and a self-described “Islamic modernist,” gave a lecture titled “Religious Freedom in Islam” on Tuesday at the Eck Visitors Center, during which he promoted religious tolerance throughout the world. Akyol began the lecture by retelling a recent incident between him
Sydney Doyle | Friday, February 23, 2018
Kwok Pui Lan, professor of theology at Emory University, addressed the role of religion in peacekeeping processes across the world in as part of the Saint Mary’s Endowed Spring Lectures Series on Thursday. Pui Lan began her lecture by talking about when she met the Dalai Lama 25 years ago, who said everyone has a role to
Devon Chenelle | Monday, November 6, 2017
As IS swept across the Near East, an international consensus emerged: IS and its ideology must be wiped out. Helpfully, the Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia, America’s most pivotal ally in the region, proclaimed that IS and the ideas it represented “are not in any way part of Islam.” The stage for an ideological war
BridgeND | Thursday, January 26, 2017
We are living in a continually polarized and tumultuous political climate here in the United States, with the recent election only furthering divides among citizens and their differing views on a variety of platforms, including religion. With a lack of facts and communication crossing the aisle from either party, all civil discourse around Islam, extremism,
Letter to the Editor | Tuesday, April 26, 2016
A week ago, the Muslim Student Association (MSA) organized our second “Hijab Day.” More than 200 people stopped by our booth in front of DeBartolo to ask about the hijab (specifically the headscarf) and Islam, to experience the hijab or simply to grab a free scarf and a Krispy Kreme. Hijab Day was an invitation
J.P. Gschwind | Tuesday, February 2, 2016
The Notre Dame Knights of Columbus council hosted a dinner to benefit Christian refugees Saturday night, highlighted by the keynote address from Professor Gabriel Said Reynolds on the role of Islam in the persecution of Christians in the Middle East. As the West looks at ongoing developments in the Islamic world, the gravity of Christian
Jordan Ryan | Sunday, November 22, 2015
Friday, Nov. 13, Paris, France fell victim to the vicious and unrestrained attacks of the terrorist organization ISIS. The U.S. Executive Office immediately released a predictable statement announcing, “This is an attack not just on Paris, it’s an attack not just on the people of France, but this is an attack on all of humanity
Charlie Ducey | Sunday, November 22, 2015
In light of (or really, in the ensuing darkness of) recent international headlines, an impressive drove of laypeople have become self-professed experts on Islam. How very odd. “Islam is a religion of peace,” we hear. “Nay, Islam is a religion of the sword,” we hear. “Islam deprives women of basic rights,” we hear. “Nay, Islam
Megan Valley | Wednesday, November 4, 2015
Kroc Institute Luce Visiting Professor of Religion, Conflict and Peacebuilding SherAli Tareen delivered a lecture titled “Beyond Good Muslim/Bad Muslim: Debating the Boundaries of Innovation in Islam” on Tuesday afternoon at the Hesburgh Center for International Studies. Tareen focused on polemics over the ethical question of “bid’a,” or heretical innovation, among two major modern Muslim reform