Complete video at: fora.tv Are Catholicism and Islam both equally compatible with democracy? Sociology professor Jose Casanova thinks so. He says the arguments made against Islam’s compatibly with democracy are almost identical to those made against Catholicism in the 19th Century. —– Featuring Jose Casanova, professor of sociology at Georgetown University and a Senior Fellow in Georgetown’s Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs; Tariq Modood, professor of sociology at the University of Bristol and Director of the Universitys Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Citizenship; and Aristide Zolberg, Walter P. Eberstadt Professor of Political Science at The New School University. Chase Robinson, Provost of the Graduate Center, moderates a discussion including questions such as: What impact do Muslim immigrants and Islamic practices have on the societies they join? What unique challenges do Muslim immigrants face? In both America and Europe, which have welcomed greater numbers of Muslim immigrants than ever before, how is the Enlightenment ideal of tolerance balanced against the realities of vast cultural and religious differences? How do Western nations promote self-perceived openness in the face of anti-Muslim sentiment in their countries? – CUNY José Casanova is a prominent scholar in the sociology of religion. He is a Professor at the Department of Sociology at Georgetown University, and heads the Berkley Center’s Program on Globalization, Religion and …
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NEW YORK, February 19, 2010 – India’s Ambassador to the United States Meera Shankar on US-India cooperation on security and counter-terrorism measures in the Asia-Pacific region (1 min., 41 sec.)
Tuesday, 2 February 2010 – The province of Aceh is one of the most conservative regions in Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim nation. Most Muslims in the country are modern and moderate, and Indonesia’s constitution recognises five official religions including Buddhism and Christianity. But Aceh has special autonomy, and one of the ways it has defined itself as different from the rest of the country is through the implementation of Sharia law and the advent of the religious police – known as the Sharia police. Their job is to make sure the Acehnese adhere to recently passed laws banning women from wearing tight trousers to ensuring that those who commit adultery will be stoned.
[Part 2 of 2] Broadcast (New Zealand): 23rd December, 1988. Pan Am Flight 103 was Pan American World Airways’ third daily scheduled transatlantic flight from London’s Heathrow Airport to New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport. On Wednesday 21 December 1988, the aircraft flying this route—a Boeing 747-121 named Clipper Maid of the Seas—was destroyed by a bomb, killing all 243 passengers and 16 crew members. Eleven people in Lockerbie, southern Scotland, were killed as large sections …
Complete video at: fora.tv Wafa Sultan, author of A God Who Hates, argues that with respect to the United States Constitution, Islam doesn’t qualify as a religion. She explains that Islam is both a religion and a state, which is incompatible with a non-Muslim government. “It is impossible for someone to be a true Muslim and a true American at the same time,” she argues. —– Is there a robust zone of Muslim belief that lives up to the term “moderate?” Or is “moderate Islam” more of a …
US security officials have questioned five American Muslims in Pakistan after they were arrested in that country for alleged links to al-Qaeda. A Pakistani police chief says the men were seeking military training, and that they planned to join fighters along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border. Rob Reynolds reports.
Highly regarded Pakistani journalist and analyst, Hasan Nisar, offers a strong defense of US bombing of Pakistani territory in the “war on terror”. He explains how terrorism is a serious global problem and that Pakistan’s notion of sovereignty should take a back seat to America’s help in the fight against terrorism.
Iran Monday accused Pakistan, Britain and the United States of aiding rebels behind a bomb attack on the elite Revolutionary Guards that killed dozens, as angry commanders vowed a “crushing” retaliation.