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A Dialogue Too Friendly for Focus on the Family?
Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008Brian McLaren responds to criticism from Focus on the Family for replying to a request by 138 Muslim scholars for civil dialogue and increased understanding between Christians and Muslims. Specifically, a January 3 email from Focus on the Family’s CitizenLink called “Evangelical Leaders Pledge Common Cause with Islam,” took aim at the National Association of [...]
Thoughts on racial profiling; Saudi gang rape; and Bay Ridge, Brooklyn
Monday, November 26th, 2007I live in the fastest growing Arabic community in New York City. Like many Brooklyn neighborhoods, Bay Ridge has been home to successive waves of immigrants, including Scandinavian, Italian, Greek, Puerto Rican, Asian and many others. Since first moving here in 1990, I have watched Fifth Avenue transform from a typical commercial Brooklyn corridor dotted [...]
Muslim clerics denounce Osama
Friday, March 11th, 2005What’s amazing about this story is that it’s taken over three and a half years since 9/11 for Muslim clerics to issue “the world’s first fatwa, or Islamic edict, against Osama bin Laden … calling him an apostate and urging others of their faith to denounce the al Qaeda leader.” Why?