Sentences with phrase «muslim religious leaders»

A new academy of science started by Muslim religious leaders in Bosnia and Serbia has stirred debate across the Balkans.

A 2012 Rabbis Without Borders Fellow, she participated in a 2009 retreat for Emerging Jewish and Muslim Religious Leaders in 2009, and in 2014 will serve as faculty for that retreat.

(CNN)- Jewish, Christian and Muslim religious leaders gathered in New York to protest advertisements that claim «Support Israel.

«Preliminary evidence suggests that Christian leaders» efforts to reach out to Muslim religious leaders have been effective in providing Christians in certain areas of Nigeria and Kenya with greater security,» Dowd wrote.

This week, Roberts traveled to Marrakesh, Morocco, alongside more than 250 Muslim religious leaders, heads of state, and scholars, for a groundbreaking summit.

Last week, another 300 Muslim religious leaders from about 30 countries did much the same.

If a Muslim religious leader or business leader spoke out against gay marriage, based on the teachings of the Koran, they wouldn't say a word, but because the CEO of Chick - Fil - A and Billy Graham are Christians and base their beliefs on the teachings of the New Testament they are unfairly accused of hate speech.

Is there a Muslim religious leader who can visit the Mosque, override the views of the current Imam, and address the congregation and express his extremists views?

Not exact matches

Lenin, Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, Mao, Kim, and many other leaders used Atheism as a tool of oppression and slaughtered millions of religious people, whether they be Muslim, Jew, Christian, Pagan, Hindu, Buddhist, or whatever.

WHEREAS, hundreds of Muslim scholars and intellectuals from over 120 countries, along with representatives of Islamic and international organizations, as well as leaders from diverse religious groups and nationalities, gathered in Marrakesh on this date to reaffirm the principles of the Charter of Medina at a major conference;

• Karim Aga Khan IV, a descendant of the prophet Muhammad and spiritual leader of 20 million Ismaili Muslims told a German news website that he would welcome a debate with Pope Benedict XVI and other religious leaders on faith, reason and violence.

While personal relationships could form across confessional lines» families hired servants from other communities, for example» and while some religious leaders encouraged respect and compassion for members of other faiths, the relationship among Christians, Muslims, and Jews was hardly a model of cooperation.

On Wednesday, the Muslim leaders released the Marrakesh Declaration: a 750 - word document calling for religious freedom for non-Muslims in majority - Muslim countries [full text below].

Gathering in Jakarta, Indonesia, the country with the largest Muslim populus and historically known for its religious peace, the leaders denounced extremism and addressed its causes.

After almost fourteen centuries the pilgrimage retains its importance for Islam in spite of the development of new means of communication, for there Muslims from all over the world, religious leaders and common folk, meet and exchange views.

Although both of these movements created militant groups in which the leader claimed temporal and spiritual power, they did not leave any appreciable marks on Muslim religious thought.

Among the colleagues and disciples of Sir Sayyid one of the most outstanding was the historian Shibli, who wrote scholarly biographies of the Holy Prophet and of several other religious leaders such as the Caliph Umar, Abu Hanifah, and Ghazali, thus awakening the Muslims of India to a sense of their glorious past.

For Muslim legislators, consensus is the agreement reached among qualified religious leaders in one place at one time.

In later years it served as a center of Muslim orthodoxy, but it also created religious leaders who did not hesitate to make common cause with the Hindus in an effort to wrest power from the British.

On February 1, a group of 51 faith - based, human rights and civil rights organizations, led by Muslim Advocates, called on House Speaker John Boehner and Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi to urge King and his committee to address all forms of religious extremism rather than focusing on Islam.

«The government has no place in discriminating against poor religious minorities or in pitting a religious education institution's faith - based identity against its American identity,» continued the statement, which was signed by 145 Christian, Muslim, and Jewish leaders.

A coalition of Christian, Muslim, and Jewish leaders assembled by the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission has released the following:

Because of the tendency of the illiterate to want religion presented to him in a way which suits his imagination, we find that educated Muslims today disapprove of the innovations invented by the Sufi orders, such as veneration of saints, seeking blessings from tombs, seeking the mediation of religious leaders, and excessive asceticism.

But one of the leading Islamic religious leaders in the Middle East says Muslims competing in the Olympics should observe the daytime fast, regardless of how it affects their performance.

Islam found its way into the African continent through three channels: through the merchants who came from Egypt, the Maghrib, and Zanzibar in the east; through followers of Sufi orders and graduates of the Islamic schools of Fez, Zaitouna, and Cairo; and through the intermarriage of Muslim merchants and religious leaders with African women.

Iran's political and religious leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, issued a fatwa on 14 February 1989, declaring that Muslims should kill Rushdie for defaming Muhammad and insulting Islam.

Your point seems to be that — since he didn't act with the full support and assistance of Christian religious leaders — it follows that Muslim terrorists — who call out to Allah as they attack, and who * DO * have the full support and assistance of certain extremist Muslim leaders — shouldn't be presumed to be acting in the name of Islam.

«While many Southern Baptists share my deep commitment to religious freedom and the right of Muslims to have places of worship, they also feel that a Southern Baptist denominational leader filing suit to allow individual mosques to be built is «a bridge too far,»» Land wrote in a letter to the ADL explaining the move.

And it would help if EVERY religious shaman and political leader, especially those leading the muslim cults and countries, banned their members and citizens from waging terror, and took action to stop them.

He approached local religious leaders to join him in reading common Hebrew, Christian and Muslim scriptures at their Sabbath services.

More than 20 religious leaders from Catholic, Protestant, Jewish and Muslim backgrounds around Gainesville had the same Quran passage read - along with Christian and Hebrew scriptures — at their congregations over the weekend.

In Indonesia, many Muslim citizens and organizations are committed to citizen equality and religious freedom, and Christian leaders are reaching out to them, according to Robert Hefner, director of the Institute on Culture, Religion, and World Affairs at Boston University.

As for the Christians, ya okay your bible might have somehow predicted all of this 2000 + years in advanced, and maybe you were right all along, but you guys still better get cautious because you have too many enemies in this world and your own churches / religious leaders are so spiritually dead and corrupt that they would not survive a muslim takeover.

Unfortunately, religious leaders do not seem to recognize the importance of zakat, and political leaders in the Muslim world do not seem to have much interest in religious teaching, especially in almsgiving.

A former drug addict who married five times as a Muslim — once into a polygamous arrangement — Naima blames her mosque's religious leaders for not being more vigilant in overseeing her choice of a mate.

Islam — the Straight Path, edited by Kenneth W. Morgan, was written by eleven Islamic scholars from six countries — scholars selected on the basis of the recommendations of religious leaders throughout the Islamic world — as an introduction to Islam from the point of view of the Muslims.

Religious leaders, community members and activists took to the streets Sunday in New York to protest upcoming congressional hearings, convened by House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Peter King, on «the radicalization of American Muslims.»

After meeting with Muslim scholars the author has a better understanding that in times of uncertainty it may be easier for people to trust a learned religious leader than a democratically elected elite put in place by dubiously motivated political constituencies.

«Wayne State — an arm of the Michigan State government — makes the remarkable claim that it violates university policies for InterVarsity Christian Fellowship to choose only Christian leaders rather than Jewish, Muslim or atheist ones,» says the lawsuit, filed by lawyers with Becket, a religious nonprofit.

So, all of these so - called religious leaders have no problem with inviting a Muslim Imam to say Islamic prayers at the 9/11 ceremony?

Cardinal Camillo Ruini, the pope's vicar for Rome, it is said, is one of those who hold this view: what is needed, he is thought to believe, is (in the words of John Allen Jr of the American National Catholic Reporter) «good relations with Islam, but also a more robust capacity to challenge and critique Islamic leaders, especially on issues of «reciprocity» — the idea that if Muslim immigrants benefit from religious freedom in the West, Christians should get the same treatment in Islamic states.»

Imam — in the most general sense, a Muslim head of a movement, community, or state; also used to designate a recognized religious leader.

A collection of a couple of hundred statements made in the immediate aftermath of September 11, mainly by religious leaders and institutions» Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Buddhist.

Suozzi had five religious leaders deliver invocations: a Catholic priest, an African Methodist Episcopal minister, a rabbi, a Hindu priest and a Muslim mufti.

According to him, there is a threat of tribal and religious conflict between the followers of the NPP which could aggravate if leaders of the party do not find a swift solution in curbing the developing hatred between the Muslims and Christian followers of the party — which could demolish the NPP paving way for the NDC to take power in the 2020 general elections if they are able to reorganize themselves well.

«As elected officials, as community leaders, as religious leaders, as ordinary citizens, we must stand together to condemn these acts of hate against our Muslim and Jewish communities.

A large crowd joined several local elected officials and religious leaders in calling for an end against recent hate attacks against both the Jewish and Muslim communities.

About a dozen religious leaders, including representatives from Buddhist, Protestant, Greek Orthodox, Hindu, Jewish, Muslim and Sikh faiths, will join the pope on Sept. 25 at the National September 11 Memorial & Museum.

The Governor who titled his speech, «Towards an Inclusive Good Youruba and Good Muslim», however enjoined religious leaders on the need to dwell more on scientific knowledge, which according to him has redefined the world.

I am not a Muslim; and to have a religious leader call for a violent caliphate (whatever caliphate means) is grotesque.