Ali Calls 'All-American Muslim' A Welcome Relief : NPR

Ali Calls 'All-American Muslim' A Welcome Relief : NPR

"CONAN: Good. What did you make of the program?

ALI: I think it's refreshingly bland. It's honest, it's real, it's human, and it's nice to see a show where Muslims aren't terrorists, taxi cab drivers or potential terrorists, you know? They're just people.

CONAN: Refreshingly bland. It's not exactly "Jersey Shore," is it?

ALI: Thankfully no, but I do believe, you know, the fact that Muslims have their own reality TV show means, you know, the Muslim agenda is successful. We're taking over America, right? Last year, we put a tiara on the head of Miss USA, Rima Fakih. Yesterday, a Pakistani man bought the Jacksonville Jaguars, and now our own reality TV show."

Muslim History Belies Stereotypes in 'Ground Zero Mosque' Dispute - TIME

Muslim History Belies Stereotypes in 'Ground Zero Mosque' Dispute - TIME

Good historical survey

A New Theory for the Foreign Policy Frontier: Collaborative Power - Anne-Marie Slaughter - International - The Atlantic

A New Theory for the Foreign Policy Frontier: Collaborative Power - Anne-Marie Slaughter - International - The Atlantic

"At 9:05 pm, I got a direct message on Twitter from the NPR strategist Andy Carvin, who covers English-language social media from Arab protests, telling me of Mona's tweet. After responding to him, I immediately sent an email to my former colleagues at the State Department. Within another hour, I'd heard back and was able to tweet that the U.S. Embassy in Cairo was on the case. Nick Kristof, citing his own contacts at the State Department,, sent out a similar message to his million-plus followers. By then, #FreeMona, a hashtag Carvin had started to help track the disparate efforts to help Mona, was already trending worldwide on Twitter. A few hours later, Mona was free, although with two broken bones and a traumatic story of sexual assault. Maged Butter, an Egyptian blogger who had been arrested with Eltahawy, was also released"

Wajahat Ali: A chat with the author of 'The Domestic Crusaders' | TBD.com

Wajahat Ali: A chat with the author of 'The Domestic Crusaders' | TBD.com

"TBD: Katie Couric recently said a Muslim Cosby Show could go a long way in combating Islamophobia, which she cited as a major challenge facing the United States. Do you agree?

Wajahat Ali: I think she’s on the right track. She was unfairly antagonized and decried for offering simplistic solutions. But she tapped into a good point that one of the factors that can help bigotry and misunderstanding is if we hear Muslim-American voices through mainstream venues. A “Muslim Cosby Show” cannot magically erase all of Islamophobia, all of the fear, all the misunderstanding. It’s impossible, but it’s one critical step, one critical tool of cultural diplomacy. All Americans who have gone through what Muslims have gone through, it’s not unique. African-Americans, Jews, Irish, gays, Japanese-Americans have used the media, they’ve used storytelling, they’ve used narrative, they’ve used culture to really influence the narrative to teach people about themselves. Sometimes just to tell a good story. At the end of the day, when people see on the most influential medium, the TV screen, a show about people who just happen to be Muslim they’ll go ‘oh, that’s a show about interesting people who just happen to be Muslim.’ That’s not a terrorist. That’s not a suicide bomber. Every woman who wears a hijab is not a fundamentalist. People don’t know these things because these avatars, these icons, these voices, these images don’t exist in the public sphere. It’s also a mistake of Muslims because we chased doctory, engineering, and business and did not encourage our younger generation to invest in the arts, in culture, in teaching, in civic sectors. It goes both ways."

Wajahat Ali: A chat with the author of 'The Domestic Crusaders' | TBD.com

Wajahat Ali: A chat with the author of 'The Domestic Crusaders' | TBD.com

"TBD: Katie Couric recently said a Muslim Cosby Show could go a long way in combating Islamophobia, which she cited as a major challenge facing the United States. Do you agree?

Wajahat Ali: I think she’s on the right track. She was unfairly antagonized and decried for offering simplistic solutions. But she tapped into a good point that one of the factors that can help bigotry and misunderstanding is if we hear Muslim-American voices through mainstream venues. A “Muslim Cosby Show” cannot magically erase all of Islamophobia, all of the fear, all the misunderstanding. It’s impossible, but it’s one critical step, one critical tool of cultural diplomacy. All Americans who have gone through what Muslims have gone through, it’s not unique. African-Americans, Jews, Irish, gays, Japanese-Americans have used the media, they’ve used storytelling, they’ve used narrative, they’ve used culture to really influence the narrative to teach people about themselves. Sometimes just to tell a good story. At the end of the day, when people see on the most influential medium, the TV screen, a show about people who just happen to be Muslim they’ll go ‘oh, that’s a show about interesting people who just happen to be Muslim.’ That’s not a terrorist. That’s not a suicide bomber. Every woman who wears a hijab is not a fundamentalist. People don’t know these things because these avatars, these icons, these voices, these images don’t exist in the public sphere. It’s also a mistake of Muslims because we chased doctory, engineering, and business and did not encourage our younger generation to invest in the arts, in culture, in teaching, in civic sectors. It goes both ways."

Video: FBI Trainer Says Forget 'Irrelevant' al-Qaida, Target Islam | Danger Room | Wired.com

Video: FBI Trainer Says Forget 'Irrelevant' al-Qaida, Target Islam | Danger Room | Wired.com

Video: FBI Trainer Says Forget 'Irrelevant' al-Qaida, Target Islam | Danger Room | Wired.com

Video: FBI Trainer Says Forget 'Irrelevant' al-Qaida, Target Islam | Danger Room | Wired.com

Obama Orders Government to Clean Up Islamophobic Terror Training | Danger Room | Wired.com

Obama Orders Government to Clean Up Terror Training | Danger Room | Wired.com

Tunisia secular, Islamist students clash on campus | Reuters

Tunisia secular, Islamist students clash on campus | Reuters

African-American Muslim Blogs

http://thirdresurrection.blogspot.com/

http://www.blackmuslims.net/community/welcome-to-black-muslims-online.html

http://salaamsblog.wordpress.com/

http://sojournerspassport.com/

http://muslimbushido.blogspot.com/

On Neoliberalism by Sherry Ortner « Anthropology of this Century

On Neoliberalism by Sherry Ortner « Anthropology of this Century

Great piece on the shift from late capitalism to neoliberalism!

Muslims form coordinated Bay Area network - SFGate

Muslims form coordinated Bay Area network - SFGate

"A large coalition of Muslim nonprofit groups and mosques has taken the first steps to build a unifying Bay Area network. By working together, they hope not only to develop a common voice, but also to more effectively serve their growing community."

Al-Murasalah | Al-Talib News Magazine

Al-Murasalah | Al-Talib News Magazine

UCLA Muslim Newspaper & blog.

The Domestic Crusaders by Wajahat Ali

The Domestic Crusaders by Wajahat Ali

SoCal Muslim Artists Establish Narratives in Post-9/11 Era

At Work and Play in Irvine: SoCal Muslim Artists Establish Narratives in Post-9/11 Era

Great UCI blog reporting post on the arts & media in soCal.

Muslim American Artists Strive to Bridge a Chasm - NYTimes.com

Muslim American Artists Strive to Bridge a Chasm - NYTimes.com

Great article on San Fran Bay Muslims

Egypt Election Watch Info.

Jadaliyya

مدونة مصرية لحقوق الإنسان: Mobile Tactics for Participants in Peaceful Assemblies

مدونة مصرية لحقوق الإنسان: Mobile Tactics for Participants in Peaceful Assemblies

"The guide will help you to understand the value of information on your mobile phone, assess mobile risks, know what to do before joining a peaceful assembly and during it, and to be more familiar with your mobile phone as well as 10 useful tips."

Arab Hip-Hop and Revolution: The Narcicyst on Music, Politics, and the Art of Resistance

Arab Hip-Hop and Revolution: The Narcicyst on Music, Politics, and the Art of Resistance

US sends America's first Muslim country singer on Middle East tour - The National

US sends America's first Muslim country singer on Middle East tour - The National

"She describes a "very expensive" tour across Egypt, Morocco, Kuwait, Bahrain, Syria, Israel and Jordan hailing from this year's budget of US$11.5 million (Dh42m) - itself lamentably small but still an increase from last year's $8.5m. Directing cultural diplomacy and so-called "soft power" towards the region has topped priorities since the US president Barack Obama's Cairo speech last June and the promise of a "new beginning" in US relations with the Muslim world."

When State Dept. comes up short, Chen Lo makes it happen

When State comes up short, Chen Lo makes it happen « Hip Hop Diplomacy

"What actually occurred was a little bit of a cultural soap opera with “dastardly” characters from both the local club scene and the US embassy performing a “vanishing act” when the band, an expanded 6-piece group now called The Lo Frequency, arrived in Beirut in late October from Brooklyn, New York.

Left with only a housing stipend, airfare and a paired-down version of the original Hip-Hop Academy proposal, group founder, rapper Chen Lo said the band’s “cultural refugee” status in Beirut was a blessing in disguise. “To be honest. Not only did it force us to pull our resources together in a short period of time, but also it gave us the freedom to shape our experience with minimal interference from the US embassy,” Lo said."

The Arab League of Hip Hop | The Middle East Channel

The Arab League of Hip Hop | The Middle East Channel

"So, what can Hamas do to stop these Arab hip-hop revolutionaries from taking a stage? And what can the U.S. government do to get them to promote its foreign-policy agenda? The answer to both is: very little. Nevertheless, both groups would be wise to rethink their approach to hip-hop and find new ways to get behind it, as opposed to standing in front or alongside. Whoever gets there first may discover a powerful and natural ally, insofar as hip-hop embodies both the spirit of diplomacy and that of armed resistance. "

Generation Change Event Gathers Future Muslim-American Leaders

"Future Muslim-American leaders exchanged ideas for improving their communities and heard from pioneering Muslims from America and around the world at Generation Change, an event held at the State Department on September 7."

EFL-Burkina

Hillary Clinton Pushes Post-9/11 Muslim Outreach : Roll Call

Hillary Clinton Pushes Post-9/11 Muslim Outreach : Roll Call

Generation Change for Muslim Americans Wiki

Generation Change Wiki

POV - Blog . 'New Muslim Cool' Producer Celebrates Eid at State Department with Hillary Clinton | PBS

POV - Blog . 'New Muslim Cool' Producer Celebrates Eid at State Department with Hillary Clinton | PBS

"On Wednesday, September 7, 2011, I was honored to be, once again, representing New Muslim Cool at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton hosted a reception, in celebration of the Muslim holiday Eid al-Fitr, in which she lauded Muslim athletes."

Asad Jafri on Transforming culture

Transforming culture | The Chicago Reporter

"Asad Jafri says he often hears, "I used to hate Muslims, just because I didn't know them." That's what some people tell Jafri after coming face to face with works created by artists of the Inner-City Muslim Action Network, a nonprofit based in Marquette Park on Chicago's Southwest Side."

Asad Jafri & Muslim Engagement through the Arts

Muslim Engagement through the Arts | WBEZ

Asad Jafri & Cultural Diplomacy IMAN

Asad Jafri Takes Center Stage | Inner-City Muslim Action Network

"The U.S. State Department has appointed IMAN’s Director of Arts and Culture, Asad Jafri, to the Center Stage Artist Advisory Committee."

American Muslims & Cultural Diplomacy

2008 Georgetown International Affairs publication

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State Dept. 2005 Cultural Diplomacy Report

"The erosion of our trust and credibility within the international community must be reversed if we hope to use more than our military and economic might in the shaping of world opinion. Culture matters."

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Shahada x Shadia: bearing witness « Hip Hop Diplomacy Blog

Shahada x Shadia: bearing witness « Hip Hop Diplomacy

"In response to those who ask me, “Why Hip Hop?”, I would offer that Hip Hop, in its true form, represents an artistic expression of shahada, not necessarily in a religious sense, but in a personal one, and, moreover, in a peaceful one. It is for that reason that I continue to advocate the support of Hip Hop-related programming by cultural diplomacy organizations, as well as others seeking to “engage the hearts and minds of Muslim youth”. One such organization that seems to get it is the British Council, who co-sponsored an event this past weekend at the Dash Arts center in London that featured Arab Hip Hop all-stars from Palestine (Tamer Nafar), Lebanon (Rayess Bek), Jordan (MC Samm), Algeria (Rabah Donquishoot), and London’s own Palestinian queen MC, Shadia Mansour, and US legend Talib Kweli. The event challenged the artists (many of whom had never met before) to take themes from the 6th century Arabian poems, the Mu’allaqat, and riff off of them to create new music in workshops, culminating in a tour throughout Europe."

MPAC Forum to Examine Cultural Diplomacy in US-Middle East Relations - Muslim Public Affairs Council

MPAC Forum to Examine Cultural Diplomacy in US-Middle East Relations - Muslim Public Affairs Council

Can hip hop improve US-Pakistan relations?

BBC News - Can hip hop improve US-Pakistan relations?

Cultural Diplomacy: State Dept. Touts Met Islamic Galleries | Real Clear Arts | ARTINFO.com

Cultural Diplomacy: State Dept. Touts Met Islamic Galleries | Real Clear Arts | ARTINFO.com

"Acting Under Secretary for Public Affairs Ann Stock termed it once-in-a-generation event in history of Islamic art that mark a new era in the Metropolitan museum’s global reach. She said 271 embassies and consulates, 25 of them in the Arab world, will display posters of exhibit highlights in their public spaces and online. The 14.5 million visitors to U.S consular and social spaces every year will see video tours of the galleries and interviews with the curators and conservators."

Cultural Diplomacy & Muslim World 2009

Sunday Forum: Cultural diplomacy

"A 2005 report by the State Department's Advisory Committee on Cultural Diplomacy called for a new vision of cultural diplomacy that "can enhance U.S. national security in subtle, wide-ranging and sustainable ways."

In 2008, a bipartisan group of American leaders, convened by Search for Common Ground and the Consensus Building Institute as the U.S.-Muslim Engagement Project, issued a report calling for efforts "to improve mutual respect and understanding between Americans and Muslims around the world."

Cultural Diplomacy: Islamic Hip Hop from the US | Foreign Policy Blogs

Cultural Diplomacy: Islamic Hip Hop from the US | Foreign Policy Blogs

“We had a debate in the community,” said Abdul-Malik Ahmad, one of the three members of Native Deen. “ ‘Should we do it?’ ‘Should we not do it?’ Some people were saying, ‘Y’all are going to be puppets, going over there saying: ‘Everything’s O.K. We’re bombing your country, but we have Muslims, too!’ ”

A Diplomatic Mission of Muslim Hip-Hop - NYTimes.com

A Diplomatic Mission of Muslim Hip-Hop - NYTimes.com

The Case for Cultural Diplomacy: Engaging Foreign Audiences | Foreign Affairs

The Case for Cultural Diplomacy: Engaging Foreign Audiences | Foreign Affairs

"Today, the youth of the Muslim world, deeply confused about their identity and critical of their own corrupt and autocratic rulers, seek refuge in another extreme ideology that promises a better and more dignified life. The United States, heeding its past successes, must offer a more compelling alternative."

America Should Export More than Pop Culture

America Should Export More than Pop Culture - The Daily Beast

Michael Muhammad Knight, of Why I Am A Five Percenter - seattlepi.com

Interview: Author Michael Muhammad Knight, of Why I Am A Five Percenter - seattlepi.com

Quote: "For you, what is it that makes Islam more true than any other religion?

That's like asking what makes English more true than any other language. The only thing that's more true about English for me is that I understand it. English is the language in which I think. That's how I feel about religion. I don't speak the language of Hinduism, but that doesn't mean I see it as less legitimate for those who speak it. I have a couple languages that I speak; I speak a few variations of Islam, I speak the Five Percent, and I grew up speaking Catholic so maybe I can remember some of that language too."

Lecture 2: Moderate Muslims & Global Village

In the first lecture we discussed the issue of global pillage in relation to US Cold War policy and the rise of international Islamic terrorism. In this lecture we will deal more with the subject of global village in terms of how Muslims have taken advantage of globalization processes to create moderate religious developments, and more specifically how Muslims have contributed to a moderate form of Islam.
But how do we study Muslims in a global context when there are so many differences based on class, geography, ethnicity, language, and sectarianism among Muslims worldwide? Well, we will attempt to look at global processes and movements initiated by Muslims on a global scale and in local contexts.

You may be familiar with Gallup polling and statistics concerning politics. Gallup has also undertaken the first global survey poll of Muslims that meets the statistical standards of sociological survey research. So, Gallup was able to draw some statistical conclusions about Muslims worldwide based on their representative sample of surveys of Muslims in numerous countries conducted through 2007. The most conclusive issue is that only 7% of Muslims condone the 9/11 attacks, which shows that terrorism is opposed by 93% of Muslims worldwide. American Muslims are more likely than any other religious group to reject violence and also express loyalty o the US and a desire to work with Israel for a peaceful resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Before we get into the American context, I want you to know that there are moderate Muslims everywhere, and a good example is a middle-class version of moderate Islam based out of Egypt by the popular tele-evangelist Amr Khaled. His show is watched by young Muslims all over the Arab world and he is actually more popular than Oprah! Check him out.

Where are the moderate Muslims?

This question has been posed thousands of times by journalists, politicians, pundits and in casual public conversations in the wake of 9/11. When people ask the moderate question they usually want to know why Muslims do not speak out against terrorism committed in the name of Islam. Well, Muslims have spoken out on television, on the internet, in public rallies and protests against terrorism, and also against the Iraq war, at Muslim and interfaith conferences, at local town hall type meetings, in the White House and almost any other place you can think of as a potential platform to speak out against terrorism. But it never seems to be adequate enough because the question is asked so often that it has become a cliché and often appears as if it is more often than not a way of criticizing Muslims, rather than genuinely wanting to hear moderate voices.

An online Muslim newspaper, The American Muslim, argues that the media has 'selective hearing' because Muslims have spoken out so much that there is no way that the media is unaware. Here is a classic example: 

"A few months ago, Thomas Friedman made the same error in an article If It’s A Muslim Problem It Needs a Muslim Solution in which he said “To this day - to this day - no major Muslim cleric or religious body has ever issued a fatwa condemning Osama bin Laden.”

"We have collected 105 fatwas from Islamic scholars, 75 statements by Islamic Organizations (many of these signed by anywhere from 50 to 500 scholars from around the world), and 142 statements by individual Muslims.  These are from 30 countries including:  Afghanistan, Australia, Bangladesh, Belgium, Britain, Chechnya, Egypt, France, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Malaysia, Mauritania, Morocco, New Zealand,  Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Spain, Sweden, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey, UAE, U.S., Yemen." 

"They speak clearly against terrorism, suicide bombing, kidnapping, harming civilians, harming places of worship, weapons of mass destruction.  They clarify the Islamic position on minority rights and apostasy.  Some directly condemn al-Qaeda and bin Laden, and specific acts like 9/11 or the Madrid bombing."

So why would the media have a vested interest in criticizing Muslims for not speaking out against violence when they clearly have done so? Why does the media not educate the public about this? If a newspaper of magazine usually prints something that is false then they typically publish a retraction and correction, so why is this not done even when massive amounts of information have been provided to television and print media?

Please read the following links by Khaled Abou El Fadl: Battling Islamic Puritans and Shari'a against Terrorism.

In the short editorial by Khaled Abou El Fadl (an authority on Islamic law) you read about how the Islamic legal tradition has clearly defined and condemned acts classified as terrorism. He points out that terrorist groups are mostly influenced by anti-colonial movements from the Third World, and that they contradict the heritage of Islamic legal thought contained in the shari‘a.

Abou EL Fadl is described by a journalist as being an emblematic symbol of moderate Muslims in America who are taking up the issue of internal self-assessment and constructive criticism within the Muslim community in the news article, ‘Battling Islamic Puritans’. In social contexts in which Islam and Muslims are extremely scrutinized, however, many Muslims have reduced Islam to slogans and legalistic prohibitions, which disallows Muslims the freedom and experimentation to debate and negotiate the diverse trends within the history of Islamic thought and practice by silencing this tradition in the name of protecting Islam. Abou El Fadl tries to remind his readers of the ethical and humane ideals that is essential to what he believes define Islam as a religion of moderation that is based on the shari‘a. He is one of only a very small number Muslim legal authorities trained at such a reputable institution as al-Azhar in Cairo, while simultaneously holding a law degree and PhD in Islamic Studies and Law from US universities.

This has led Abou El Fadl to argue that there is a distinction between the balanced and moderate authoritative heritage of Islam and the current widespread authoritarian nature of Muslim thought that silences internal debates in the same manner that authoritarian regimes in Middle Eastern countries limit public debate and dissent. For him, the two forms of authoritarianism are un-Islamic by-products of the socio-political climate that reflects the state of many Muslim majority societies. He has also written that Muslims who claim to know precisely what Allah has willed and thought is an expression of ignorance, and he continuously tries to show that the search for knowledge and understanding begins with acknowledging that one recognizes that his or her perspective should not be mistaken for the will of God because that deifies one's ego. In contrast, he has argued that admitting that the individual may be mistaken or incorrect is the foundation to begin the study of sacred sources because humans and their minds are fallible, which requires a constant search for truth and a reading of the heritage of the great minds of the past. I hope this helps you to see how America has become a refuge for moderate Muslims who are having an impact globally.

So, with all of the moderate Muslim voices, why do media outlets focus more on the Muslim threat angle? Well, this video outlines research findings about an Islamophobia network linked to conservative political anti-Islamic Euro-terrorism and conservative Israel-allied political groups:



In 2010 this network of media activists garnered opposition to a Muslim Community Center, called the Park 51 mosque, but in the media and larger public it was called the Ground Zero mosque. Through Pamela Geller's anti-Islamic blog, Atlas Shrugs, this site became the biggest news story of 2010 (see here). Mass protests and at least one killing of a Muslim taxi driver resulted from this campaign against the alleged Ground Zero mosque. The following video gives you a good overview:



Despite claims that American Muslims are security threats, Muslim communities have been instrumental in helping US security agencies to identify potential threats. But still myths about Muslims in America being a security threat persist, which is why you should read the following 5 Myths about Muslims article. As Muslims seek to define themselves as fully American and Muslim they are often pressured to criticize one or the other since the are perceived as incompatible. Here is a good piece noting that an Arab-American recently won Miss America and that an Arab Muslim community had their own reality tv show, All-American Muslim.

We now have to think about the long history of ethnic and religious minorities in the US. The following video was put out by a group of Muslims during the 2010 uproar over the so-called Ground Zero mosque. In the video American Muslims are trying to show that they are a part of American life and that they stand in a long tradition of minority struggles for acceptance as part of the nation.



As those who seek to define Muslims as a threat to the nation both internationally and domestically, Muslims are pursuing multiple paths to demonstrate their place in American society as a minority that is making valuable contributions to American society and its security. While debates about Islam being a global threat persist, American Muslims are responding to this globalization narrative with their own narratives about being American as moderate Muslims.A good way to end the course is with the award-winning song, A Land Called Paradise, by an Egyptian-American Muslim cowboy from Oklahoma, Kareem Salama. Producer, Lena Khan, sent out an email to American Muslims asking them about what they would like fellow Americans to know about them. The placards you see in the video are what American Muslims had to say. This video has been used in US embassies across the globe as a peacebuilding initiative for how the US and Islam can stand in a positive relationship with one another.



 

MPV Women-Led Prayer Service

Muslims for Progressive Values (MPV) women-led prayer service.

Women-Led Prayer Service (With English Narration) - YouTube

Blog Threats Target Virginia Mosque

Bare Naked Islam (http://barenakedislam.wordpress.com/)
Blog threats: digital media as source for inciting violence against Muslims in the US. Here's is CAIR's distribution of local Virginia media coverage of the issue.

Video: Blog Threats Target Virginia Mosque (CAIR) - YouTube

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Hip Hop: Between Dissent & Diplomacy

Hisham Aidi has done some amazing work on the current landscape of hip hop within the context of diplomacy and international relations. Here is the al-Jazeera link for Leveraging Hip Hop in US Foreign Policy. It serves as a good primer for his larger piece in the Middle East Report entitled, The Grand (Hip-Hop) Chessboard. This work is both a follow-up and a contrast to his earlier work entitled, Jihadis in the Hood, that looked at urban Islam in the context of the war on terror. Here's another good piece of his on the cultural protest of the Hip-Hop Umma.
  
Below are some videos on the role of Muslim hip hop as a political tool of the US, and some others as a critique of the US that resist incorporation into cultural diplomacy projects. Further down is some info. on hip hop and the Arab Spring.

Diplomacy
 
Here's a piece on the involvement of American Muslim group Native Deen in cultural diplomacy in Indonesia, and a video:



Dissent

But, there are other Muslim artists who have taken a more critical stance on US foreign policy, which make them much less likely to partner with cultural diplomacy projects. The British Iraqi rapper Lowkey represents this perspective:

 


Arab Spring

For a good survey of videos, lyrics and info. on musical artists involved with the Arab Spring, check out Reza Aslan's compilation (here). Here's news clip on hip hop and the Arab Spring:

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Egypt's Jan. 25th Anniversary 

Iraqi Canadian rapper The Narcicyst has a recent video out in support of Egypt's revolutionary anniversary:



Egyptian Kareem Abd el-Wahhab commemorates the anniversary below with a techno beat with centered around the chant of the revolution:
(The people want the downfall of the regime/الشعب يريد إسقاط النظام):

For U.S. Muslims, 9/11 Began a Whole New Ballgame: Aasif Mandvi - Bloomberg

For U.S. Muslims, 9/11 Began a Whole New Ballgame: Aasif Mandvi - Bloomberg

When U.S. troops marched into Iraq in 2003, I, like many Americans, was outraged at what I considered a senseless and unjustified military action. As I spoke to my mother about it on the phone, I noticed that the angrier I got, the more uncomfortable she became.

At first I thought perhaps she disagreed with me, that her awkward silences on the other end of the line resulted from her biting her tongue. Had she, like many of her fellow Americans, bought into the claim that Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden were simply opposite sides of the same al-Qaeda nickel?

When I pressed her on this, she quietly replied, “Perhaps we should not discuss this over the phone.”

What do you mean? I said. Why on earth not?

Because, she answered, “You never know who is listening to us.”

The fear in my mother’s hushed voice marked a passage to a new America. This was not the land of opportunity and freedom that my parents had sacrificed everything to be part of in 1982, when we arrived from the north of England after selling all our possessions: our home, our car, my clock radio. (We even said goodbye to our cat, Genie, whom we gave to a neighbor.)

My parents were quintessential Americans -- immigrants who filled with pride as they waved the star-spangled banner every Fourth of July. Suddenly, however, we inhabited a newly fearful and suspicious America, an America that for my mother had lost its head and its humanity.

For Muslims in America, everything changed after Sept. 11. Personally, I had been a relatively secular sort. I didn’t attend a mosque and, for the most part, didn’t find much identification with the faith I had been born into. I was raised on Western pop culture and hot dogs (though I never really learned to play baseball). The only time I was reminded of my Muslim-ness was when my grandparents visited and we would sit and read the Koran, or on the occasions when I was chased home from the bus stop by a group of white kids who for some reason had decided I would be better suited riding a camel instead of a bus.

After Sept. 11, as misinformation and Islamophobia spread across the American news media and into American communities, I suddenly began defending an identity to which I had a tenuous relationship at best. I found myself shouting at pundits who had no idea what they were talking about, including a radio jock who found deep meaning in the fact that the Muslim holiday of EID, spelled backward, is DIE. I could not believe what I was hearing. When President George W. Bush called people from Pakistan “Pakis,” it seemed my entire heritage was getting lost in translation.

U.S. soldiers are now leaving Iraq, but here at home the fear has not receded. There are protests against mosques all over the country, including the one proposed in downtown Manhattan. Flying While Muslim remains a hazard because too many Americans can’t, or won’t, distinguish terrorists from imams. After Sept. 11, apart from the foolishness of TV pundits, it seemed a useful conversation was taking shape -- a conversation that might lead to understanding, to bridges across divides.

Now, 10 years later, it appears that the band of TV pundits and politicians who set out to exploit the tragedy has won. Fear and mistrust have trumped courage and unity. That moment when the world came together and shared a grief that transcended faith, nationality and politics is undone.

I’ve never forgotten my conversation with my mother. For me, it represents the very essence of fear, the aftershock of a senseless act of mass murder that still reverberates. What I hope for in the next 10 years is a War against Fear. Then I can go back to being a so-so Muslim, and a typical American, though I really ought to learn to play baseball.

(Aasif Mandvi is a comedian, actor and correspondent for The Daily Show on Comedy Central. The opinions expressed are his own.)

Ingrid Mattson- The Ethical Maturation of the American Muslim Community After 9/11

Ingrid Mattson- The Ethical Maturation of the American Muslim Community After 9/11 - YouTube

Muslim 9/11 Reflections: Islam In America 10 Years Later

Muslim 9/11 Reflections: Islam In America 10 Years Later

List of articles:

"A Bright Future For American Muslims" by Imam Mohamed Magid

I believe in an America that will overcome these difficult times in the next 10 years and help create a better future for people of all faiths (or people of no faith), be they Christian, Jewish or Muslim. Continue reading ...

"9/11 A Decade Later: The Ironic Impact of Islamophobia" by Sherman Jackson

Ironically, all of this has begun a slow but steady and long overdue process of shifting the Muslim understanding of America and thus of themselves as Muslim-Americans. Continue reading ...

"Islam Was Not Hijacked on 9/11" by Dalia Mogahed

From the very first instant, Muslim American first responders tapped into their spiritual tradition for the courage to risk death so that others may live. Others sought comfort in its values as they grieved for their lost loved ones. Continue reading ...

"The Complexity Of Muslim Identity, 10 Years After 9/11" by Asma Uddin

Muslim Americans feel a sense of urgency to take control of their narrative. My personal attempt at translating this urgency into action is reflected through my work to explore the inherent complexity of gender-and-Islam. Continue reading ...

"Victims Or Villains: Moving Beyond Post-9/11 Narratives" by Rami Nashashibi

My hope is that our efforts are successful in forging a new narrative of American Muslims as transformative, committed and, yes, complicated agents of change, hope and stability. Continue reading ...

"The Quranic Solution to the 9/11 Abomination" by Irshad Manji

Sept. 11 was a twisted way to introduce Islam to most of America. On reflection, though, it might have taken nothing less than a cataclysm for Americans to think about my religion at all. Continue reading ...

"Muslims in America at the 10th Anniversary of 9/11" by Parvez Ahmed

The incessant headlines about violence in the name of Islam have led nearly one in two Americans to erroneously conclude that the faith of Islam is more likely than other religions to encourage violence. Continue reading ...

"5 Myths About American Muslims 10 Years After 9/11" by Engy Abdelkader

While 9/11 thrust the American Muslim community into the center of public attention nearly a decade ago, misinformation regarding this group persists against an alarming back-drop of rising Islamophobia. Continue reading ...

"Muslims Rising Above the Ashes of Misunderstanding" by Kari Ansari

To make this climb, we know our focus must stay on our youth. There are thousands of young, dynamic American Muslims already creating change in our nation's high schools, colleges and workplaces. Continue reading ...

"A Muslim American Declaration" by Wajahat Ali, signed by Hussein Rashid, Reza Aslan, Zeba Iqbal and many other Muslim leaders.

Regardless of whether we were born in this nation or have recently adopted it as our home, we are committed to working with our fellow Americans to create a more perfect union. Continue reading ...

"Prophet Joseph and 9/11" by Imam Abdullah Antepli

As we reflect on 9/11, can we feel the intense pride and gratitude that Joseph felt when he faced his aggressors? Can we tell these evil forces: You wanted to divide us but we are more united than ever. Continue reading ...

"One Muslim's 9/11" by Melody Moezzi

On this mournful anniversary, I pray to one day spend an uneventful year in New York -- without the disaster, without the stench, without the hate. Continue reading ...

Asma Uddin: The Complexity Of Muslim Identity, 10 Years After 9/11

Asma Uddin: The Complexity Of Muslim Identity, 10 Years After 9/11

As the tenth anniversary of 9/11 approaches, Muslims and non-Muslims alike are reflecting on what we, as Americans, have achieved since that fateful day -- and all that is still left for us to do. For Muslims, this conversation is happening at multiple levels, as we struggle to make sense of not just the socio-political issues facing our faith community, but also the deeply personal, spiritual questions 9/11 has posed for us as individuals.

At the community level, there is a growing understanding of the sophistication and resolve of our enemy. A recent report released by the Center for American Progress, "Fear, Inc.: The Roots of the Islamophobia Network in America," highlights the source of over $42 million dollars of funding for Islamophobic initiatives since 9/11/01, as well as the multiple media enablers and political players involved in growing and amplifying such messages of hate against the Muslim community. And it's not just hateful messages without any on-the-ground ramifications -- as the report mentions, the Norwegian terrorist, Anders Breivik, who in July shot and killed 68 people at a youth camp in Oslo, was motivated by the need to protect his country from "Muslimization." Meanwhile, here in America, the fear-mongering has led to many states considering anti-Sharia bills and ballot measures. The citizens of some of these states have taken matters into their own hands, protesting the building of mosques and vandalizing Muslim religious property.

Given this well-oiled and highly active Islamophobia hate machine, many Muslim Americans feel a sense of urgency to take control of their narrative -- to fight back against caricatures of Sharia as a "legal-political-military" doctrine that threatens the fundamental rights of Americans, and explain its true meaning both academically and through personal action.

My personal attempt at translating this urgency into action is reflected through my work at altmuslimah.com, a web magazine I founded over two years ago to explore the inherent complexity of gender-and-Islam. The question of gender and, more particularly, Muslim women's rights, is a predominant one in the non-Muslim understanding -- or misunderstanding -- of Muslims. Well-known anti-Muslim activists, such as Ayaan Hirsi Ali, use it to portray Islam as backward and dangerous. "Women's rights" is used to limit the religious freedom of precisely the women such rhetoric purports to protect -- whether in the form of burqa bans across Europe or the push against sharia arbitration in the U.S. While there are some Muslim women who are subject to coercion, the general thrust of such measures is to tell Muslim women what is good for them; to rob them of their right to make that choice for themselves -- to speak for them, and not let them speak for themselves.

In my work at altmuslimah.com, I have fought against precisely this tendency to speak about Muslim women as passive objects needing external advocates. I have sought to create a forum that allows these women -- and the men who support them -- to speak up and tell their own stories. Whether they're about interracial and interfaith marriages, personal decisions to wear, not wear, or stop wearing the headscarf, or political commentaries on gender rights in America and abroad, each of these stories stems from a unique thought process and spiritual experience. The variety of views reflects the tremendous diversity and intellectual nuance of not just our writers but of all American Muslims.

These stories also reflect the very organic process of spiritual evolution. The individual spiritual experiences of American Muslims since 9/11/01 have, in many ways, been rich. In defending our community from external allegations, we've been forced to think through hard questions instead of sweeping them under the rug. We're beginning to come to terms with ugly truths about some members of our community, such as those who have fallen prey to radicalization or are vulnerable to it because of the failings of their family and the community as a whole.

The media frenzy has kept us on our toes, even while we sometimes feel that our spiritual connection to Islam is being replaced by socio-political soundbytes. And yet, there is an understanding that it is precisely that spiritual connection that will keep us moving forward, plugging away for change in the years ahead.

The tenth anniversary of 9/11 comes at the heels of Ramadan, a month when Muslims strive to reflect on their individual and collective weaknesses and turn to God in sincerity for guidance. It has given us renewed strength to continue to face our challenges -- and to rise above them.

American Muslims come of age in post-9/11 era, Ten Years Later

American Muslims come of age in post-9/11 era - US news - 9/11: Ten Years Later - msnbc.com

Nice survey of last decade.

 

A Decade of Designing a Muslim-American Identity | elan

A Decade of Designing a Muslim-American Identity | elan

By: Maryam Eskandari

This weekend, the world marks the tenth anniversary of the horrific events of September 11th. This tragedy pushed the Muslim American community to the forefront, forcing us to discover who we are, as a collective. This grueling process of defining identity can be traced through architectural designs where various attributes have been explored. From the relatively unknown Islamic inspired architecture of the World Trade Center, to the Islamic Center in Manhattan, we start to see not only a pattern of expression, but also a community coming into our own.

The World Trade Center in New York, an iconic masterpiece stood majestically around 1300 feet high. Designed by Minoru Yamasaki, an architect praised for merging modernism with Islamic architecture, recreated Mecca’s courtyard within the busy Financial District claiming the World Trade Center’s plaza was, “a Mecca, a great relief from the narrow streets and sidewalks of the surrounding Wall Street area.” Three decades ago, Yamasaki, the desired designer of the 1970’s, was commissioned for his ability to merge Islamic and postmodern design, an amalgamation of defining a renowned form of architecture. He was applauded for his innovation.

He spent project after project perfecting his mathematical obsession for ornamental pattern work on the Eastern Airlines Terminal at Boston’s Logan Airport, the Federal Science Pavilion at Seattle’s World Fair, and at the North Shore Congregation Glencoe in Illinois. In doing so, he merged Islamic architecture into the other Abrahamic faith, Judaism, and we all stood back in astonishment. In fact, we all stood back and commended Yamasaki for his ability to weave the structural ribbed arches, replicating the mosque windows known as the “mashrabiya,” often found in “Islamic architecture”; into a post modern design. Yamasaki’s intention was never questioned nor viewed through an Islamophobic lens when he stated that the World Trade Center was to be “a Mecca.”

Fast forward 30 years, when a postmodern building, a tenth of the height of the World Trade Center, with its “contemporary ‘exo-skeleton’ mashrabiya” was commissioned to be designed to accommodate the vast growing neighborhood of Lower Manhattan, the Park 51 project. The proposed performing arts center, a 500-seat auditorium theater, swimming pool, basketball courts, gallery/exhibition space, emulated “Yamasakian design style” and mimicked the programmatical functions of the Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA) and Jewish Community Center (JCC). The perception that a Muslim developer, or an “Islamic Community Center (ICC),” two blocks away from the site of the World Trade Center, was questioned. Park 51 aspired to be a post-modern icon of pluralism, alongside its other two Abrahamic faiths, Church of St. Peter and Battery Park Synagogue, both a block away from architect Michael Arad’s World Trade Center/National September 11 Memorial and Museum.

Prior to Yamasaki, another architect was already flourishing. Mario Rossi, the Italian-American Architect commissioned in 1949 and completed the Islamic Center of Washington DC in June of 1957. President Dwight D. Eisenhower at the grand opening praised the Islamic world stating, “traditions of learning and rich culture” which have “for centuries contributed to the building of civilization.” The eclectic design of Rossi, played on the concept of memory, was to be a precedent mosque for others in the United States, representing all the Muslim countries. The Islamic Center of Washington DC became the icon of American-Muslims, settling on the concept of cultural nostalgia, with luxurious gifts from Egypt, Iran, and Turkey.

However, three decades later, Skidmore Owing and Merrill (SOM), was commissioned in 1987 to build the Islamic Cultural Center of New York. SOM decided to redefine the American-Muslim identity, departing from “cultural nostalgia” and instead embracing the American-Muslim identity through a post-modern design. Mimicking Yamasaki’s “weaving” of Islamic Architecture through a modern approach, SOM often found itself interrogated for its architectural designs to the 46 Muslim countries sponsors particularly to its key donor Kuwait, who expressed that the “iconic mosque” design should be implemented. For example, SOM perceived the minaret as juxtaposition between architecture and identity. SOM design of the minaret was just a simple cylindrical form with a balcony on top. However, the Amir of Kuwait did not find this acceptable in a mosque design under the notion that the design was not “Islamic.” Nevertheless, the minaret was built after the completion of the Islamic Cultural Center to appeal to the demands of Kuwait’s Amir.

Conversely, SOM and Kuwait often find themselves designing mosques with a whole new Islamic architecture vocabulary. Most recently, Kuwait commissioned star-architect Zaha Hadid to design a contemporary mosque at the Avenues Mall in Kuwait City. At Arcapita Bank Headquarters in Bahrain, SOM designed a prayer space emulating the Ka’aba in Mecca, a simple cube form with light being punctured at an angle. Furthermore, even Mecca is at the height of architecture design. The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is on the forefront of cutting edge architecture design, particularly at the Ka’aba. Recently, during the lunar month of Ramadan, the clock tower in Mecca was inaugurated. These bold architectural designs, often question the identity of Muslim-American’s when designing a mosque, or an Islamic Cultural Center. For example, the Islamic Center of Murfreesboro, a 52,000 sq. ft. facility that serves the whole community with its pool, gym and school, has been under heated debate over its architectural identity.

Granted an Islamic Center in Manhattan, such as Park 51 or the Islamic Cultural Center design by SOM, will differ in design and form in comparison to another: as apparent in Abiquiu, New Mexico, or Dar Al Islam’s design by Egyptian architect Hassan Fathy in the early 1980’s, of which is one of the most sustainable Islamic Centers in America. Nevertheless the 100-plus Muslim prayer spaces in New York City are unique on their own, and each center across the United States is challenged with design problems to meet the needs and demands of the users and to accommodate the American-Muslim community; but each building should have the ability to serve the community, practice sustainability, celebrate the American culture that surrounds it, and be a design solution that can be easily fabricated in American urban context.

As we approach the decadal anniversary of September 11, we must remind ourselves, that the World Trade Center, as the late Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture Oleg Grabar expressed that the “filigree of complex geometries alludes to a higher spiritual reality,” is the ideal and perfect example of another dimension of the multi-faceted design solutions of “Islamic Architecture.” Nevertheless, there is a new generation of architects on the rise who have the ability to continue Yamasaki’s inter-woven, spiritual concepts of “Islamic Architecture”. This generation of architects are well versed in Yamasaki’s design amalgamation and allude to a “higher spirit” by primarily designing their own identity through a more spiritual, and sustainable architecture, and redefining or better yet reverting back to essential elements of a more spiritual “Islamic Architecture”, where the Divine is expressed as light, purification is through elements of water and the earth is preserved. As Professor Seyyed Hossein Nasr once explained that “the elements of the spiritual universe of [the religion of] Islam are not visually symbolized, [rather] there is an inner nexus between ‘Islamic Architecture’ and Islamic cosmology and angelology.”

Maryam Eskandari is an Architect and a graduate of the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard and MIT. Follow her on twitter @MaryamEskandar

No Such Thing as a Great 9/11 Work of Art | Religion Dispatches

No Such Thing as a Great 9/11 Work of Art | Religion Dispatches

Good discussion about how 9/11 has influenced art tastes.

Muslim-American magazines explore Identity

Muslim-American magazines explore identity - CSMonitor.com

They are not headlines one sees at the grocery store checkout. "A Jihad for Love" or "There's Something About Rumi." Flipping through the May edition of the glossy magazine, one also finds features about a graffiti artist; Nobel Prize winners; calligraphy in the Digital Age; and the usual magazine fare of recipes, travel tips, and fashion ideas. There's just one twist: The articles are all aimed at Muslim Americans.

Welcome to Elan, one of the latest in a growing field of US-based magazines for Muslims. Publications such as Elan, Azizah, and Islamica cater to a dizzying array of demographic groups within the community, yet all share a common motivation: to define themselves at a time when many believe they have surrendered that responsibility to Western media that often get them wrong.

"We wanted to provide a place where positive stories about real Muslim girls who are making a contribution could be told, and in such a way that girls would see it as coming from the inside, so the stories would be honest and accurate and reflect their own values," says Ausma Khan, editor in chief of Muslim Girl.

These magazines chiefly attract Muslim subscribers. But Muslim Girl, Elan, and Islamica – a quarterly whose style its editors liken to the Atlantic Monthly – are also sold in major book stores like Barnes & Noble and Borders. Many American embassies in Muslim-majority countries also subscribe, as do many universities and public libraries in the United States.

"That translates into non-Muslims getting a glimpse of our lives," says Kari Ansari, a convert to Islam who, with her husband in 2003, founded America's Muslim Family magazine, which she compares to Good Housekeeping. "Our main mission is to encourage integration of the Muslim community into society."

Despite their goal of helping Muslims define themselves, the magazines have not satisfied everyone's definition of what a Muslim should be. Muslim Girl has been criticized for being too liberal. Azizah, on the other hand, gets criticized for always featuring cover models with head scarves.

"We want our magazine to be easily recognizable as a Muslim women's magazine. And even though a Muslim woman might not cover her head in public, when she stands to pray, she covers," says Tayyibah Taylor, founder and editor of Azizah. "And if not on the cover of Azizah, then where? You're not going to find it on the cover of Cosmo or Woman's Day."

Like other magazines, these have struggled financially. While they have succeeded in finding Muslim advertisers, the publications have garnered few big-name advertisers even though their readership is relatively affluent.

Some inroads have been made – IKEA has advertised in Azizah, and FOX Television and the Girl Scouts have advertised in Muslim Girl. But the dearth of advertising means an uncertain future.

Ms. Khan believes some advertisers worry about affiliating themselves with a Muslim publication.

Despite financial risks and competition from Internet news sources like blogs and webzines, many Muslim Americans still prefer magazines.

"The Internet has definitely provided new venues, but magazines have, I don't know, pizazz," says Joy Karugu, editor and cofounder of Misbah, a quarterly launched by Princeton University students. "It's definitely a way of identifying with a group or an idea or a way of looking at the world. It's something that can catch the eye of someone else and be a conversation starter. That's very exciting."

Muslim Voices Promoting Islamic Non Violent Solutions - The American Muslim (TAM)

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Muslim Voices Promoting Islamic Non Violent Solutions - updated 6/12/11

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Muslim Voices Promoting Islamic Non Violent Solutions - article collection

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Muslims all over the world have spoken out loudly against violence and terrorism. They have not been able to stem the tide in a world filled with injustice any more than any other religious group has been able to stem the tide.

Muslims have not only spoken out against specific criminal acts and against political organizations such as Al Qaeda, they have also spoken for spiritual and non violent solutions - dialogue and peace.

These are voices that need to be heard and amplified. Who even among Muslims have heard of Abdul Ghaffar Khan or Mubarak Awad? The tragedy is that such voices just don’t sell newspapers.

We will attempt to collect these voices and add to this collection regularly.

UPDATE 9/2009

The first of the Women’s Islamic Initiative in Spirituality and Equality (WISE) is a Jihad Against Violence: Muslim Women’s Struggle for Peace. The group is headed by Daisy Khan and based in New York City. Daisy Khan says that it is Time for a Women’s Jihad Against Violence.

UPDATE 4/28/2011

Recently, there have been a few important new articles on Islam and non-violence.

An excellent article Islam’s Nonviolent Tradition by Michael Shank and just published in The Nation, includes the following:

Khan’s campaign, while reinforced by religious rigor, was also strategically brilliant, quickly garnering global attention. Then, as now, the international community cried foul as it watched the British respond to the Red Shirts with a Qaddafi-like retribution: bombing, killing, torturing, castrating, raping, poisoning and drowning the Khidmatgars. Unsurprisingly, then, as now, a quizzical world questioned the relationship between Islam and nonviolence, to which Khan quickly countered, “There is nothing surprising in a Muslim or a Pathan [Pashtun] like me subscribing to the creed of nonviolence. It is not a new creed. It was followed fourteen hundred years ago by the Prophet all the time he was in Mecca.”

Khan was intentional about sourcing his nonviolent teachings and inspiration in the Koran, a practice his grandson Asfandyar Wali Khan continues to this day as head of the Awami National Party in Pakistan’s North-West Frontier (recently renamed Khyber-Pakhtunkwa). The preamble to the party’s platform, in fact, is an unequivocal commitment to the principles of nonviolence, the teachings of Khan and the cause of the Khidmatgars.

Beyond Pakistan, the raison d’être of Khan’s red-shirted revolution still resonates, as protests of equal proportion and principle pepper many Muslim streets today. What is critical to keep in mind, as Americans pay homage to the rolling wave of democracy washing over the Muslim world, is that the nonviolent nature of some protests is not foreign to Islam, its teachings or its culture. Khan was quick to make note of this. Mohammed, Khan quipped, taught that a Muslim is one “who never hurts anyone by word or deed,” a principle the Prophet repeats in his last sermon: “Hurt no one so that no one may hurt you.”

Khan’s movement remains notable given its size and scope, but he was not alone in his mission. Fast-forward to Khan’s counterparts in more recent years, such as the nonviolent leadership of Syrian-born Sheik Jawdat Said, whose 1964 book The Doctrine of the First Son of Adam articulates for the modern Islamic movement the concept of nonviolence. Or prominent Muslim-American human rights lawyer and writer Arsalan Iftikhar, whose upcoming Islamic Pacifism: Confessions of a Muslim Gandhi highlights the legacies of Islam’s nonviolent leaders. Iftikhar’s book, due out around the tenth anniversary of 9/11, profiles numerous notables, including the “Chechen Mahatma Gandhi,” Kunta-haji Kishiev, an ideologue of nonviolence and passive resistance.

The entire article is a must read for those interested in Islam and non-violence.

UPDATE 5/17/2011

It was reported today that Rais Bhuiyan who was shot in a hate crime immediately after 9/11 is pleading for mercy for his attacker. The news report says that

Mark Stroman, a white supremacist, would later confess he was out for revenge against those of Middle Eastern descent in Mesquite and Dallas days after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Already, Stroman had killed one Pakistani immigrant; two weeks later, he’d kill an Indian immigrant.

Now, Bhuiyan wants to forgive.

He’ll be asking for a stay of the July 20 evening scheduled execution of Stroman, and a stop to the “cycle of violence,” as he calls it.

“Sometimes, we human beings make mistakes out of anger,” said Bhuiyan, 37, in an interview Monday with The Dallas Morning News.

Stroman, a former stonecutter, was convicted of the Oct. 4 killing of Vasudev Patel, an Indian of the Hindu faith who owned a gas station and convenience store in Mesquite.

Stroman also confessed to the Sept. 15 Dallas killing of Waqar Hasan, an immigrant from Pakistan and a Muslim, in what is believed to be the first hate crime in the U.S. after the attacks. He was charged in the shooting of Bhuiyan, a Bangledesh immigrant, on Sept. 21.

Bhuiyan said his Islamic faith led him to realize “hate doesn’t bring any good solution to people. At some point we have to break the cycle of violence. It brings more disaster.”

Yousuf Munayyer has just published an excellent article on Palestine’s Hidden History of Nonviolence. He says that “You wouldn’t know it from the media coverage, but peaceful protests are nothing new for Palestinians. But if they are to succeed this time, the West needs to start paying attention.” He then gives a much-needed history lesson.

UPDATE 6/12/2011

A British Muslim Women’s organization, INSPIRE, launches a jihad against violence in a bid to reclaim the term jihad from extremists.

ARTICLES:

9 Prominent American Muslim Scholars Speaking Against Violence in the Name of Islam http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/9_prominent_american_muslim_scholars_speaking_against_violence_in_the_/

100 Imams Call for April 9 Rally for Peace and Against Terrorism in NYC http://www.theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/100_imams_call_for_april_9_rally_for_peace_and_against_terrorism_in_ny/0018478

A Call to Bridge the Abrahamic Faiths: Judaism, Christianity and Islam, Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, Ph. D.
http://www.theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/a_call_to_bridge_the_abrahamic_faiths_judaism_christianity_and_islam/

A Call to Conscience and a Reminder to the Muslims, Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf
http://www.theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/a_call_to_conscience_and_a_reminder_to_the_muslims/

A Common Word Between Us and You, Muslim Scholars Appeal to Christian Scholars for Dialogue and Peace, Sheila Musaji http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/unprecedented_plea_from_muslim_to_christian_scholars_on_eve_of_eid/

A Common Word Conference at Yale Divinity School - Loving God and Neighbor in Word and Deed http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/a_common_word_conference_at_yale_divinity_school_loving_god_and_neighbor_in/

A Contemporary Christian Response to Islam, John Renard, http://www.spiritualitytoday.org/spir2day/823432renard.html

A Dialogue of the Cultures Instead of the Clash of Civilizations, by Naika Foroutan http://www.theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/a_dialogue_of_the_cultures_instead_of_the_clash_of_civilisations/

A framework for non-violence and peace-building in Islam, M. Abu Nimer http://www.jstor.org/pss/1051519

A Key to Shaping the Political Agenda: Part 1 Peaceful Engagement Through Interfaith Action, Dr. Robert D. Crane http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/a_key_to_shaping_the_political_agenda_part_1_peaceful_engagement_through_in/

A Pacifist Uncovered: Abdul Ghaffar Khan, By Amitabh Pal http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/a_pacifist_uncovered_abdul_ghaffar_khan/

A Pacifist Critique of Obama’s Nobel Speech, Ramzi Kysia http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/a_pacifist_critique_of_obamas_nobel_speech/

A Pax on Both Their Houses - Interfaith Peace Effort Ignored By Mainstream Media, Sheila Musaji http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/a_pax_on_both_their_houses/ , A Pax on both our houses campaign still necessary, Rabbi Arthur Waskow http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/a_pax_on_both_our_houses_campaign_still_necessary/

A Response to Ramzy Baroud’s “Non-Violence in Palestine”, Anis Hamadeh http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/a_response_to_ramzy_barouds_non_violence_in_palestine/

A Small Step Toward Interfaith Dialogue, Akbar S. Ahmed, http://www.danielpearl.org/news_and_press/articles/a_small_step_toward_interfaith_dialog.html

A Spiritual Jihad Against Terrorism, Sheila Musaji (5 parts) http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/a_spiritual_jihad_against_terrorism_part_i/

A Time for Healing, Imam Ghayth Nur (Lonnie) Kashif http://www.theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/a_time_for_healing/

An Introduction to Islamic Nonviolence, Rabia Terri Harris http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/an_introduction_to_islamic_nonviolence/

An Open Letter from a Muslim to Muslims: “Pray And Forgive.”, T.O.Shanavas http://www.theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/an_open_letter_from_a_muslim_to_muslims_pray_and_forgive/

A Spiritual Jihad Against Terrorism - 5 parts, Sheila Musaji http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/a_spiritual_jihad_against_terrorism_part_i/

The Abraham Federation: A Non-Violent Strategy of Satyagraha for Jews and Arabs in the Holy Land, Dr. Robert D. Crane http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/the_abraham_federation_a_non_violent_strategy_of_satyagraha_for_jews_a/

Abrahamic Gatherings For Global Healing, Len Traubman http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/abrahamic_gatherings_for_global_healing/

Abrahamic Heritage and Interreligious Dialogue, Tarek Mitri, http://www.theamericanmuslim.org/2002nov_comments.php?id=142_0_16_0_C

Absolute truth manifests itself in diverse ways, Muhammad Khatami http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/mohammad_khatami/2006/11/absolute_truth_manifests_itsel_1.html

Address at the 40th Anniversary Commemoration of Nostra Aetate, Dr. Abdul Cader Asmal http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/address_at_the_40th_anniversary_commemoration_of_nostra_aetate/

Affirmation of Freedom of Expression and Belief in the Quran, By Haris Aziz http://www.theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/affirmation_of_freedom_of_expression_and_belief_in_the_quran/

Agree or disagree, let’s try to understand, Sherman Jackson http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/sherman_jackson/2007/07/agree_or_disagree_lets_try_to.html

Alternatives to Violence in Muslim History: Parallels to American Cases, Imad-ad-Dean Ahmad http://www.theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/alternatives_to_violence_in_muslim_history_parallels_to_american_cases/0015592

AMERICAN MUSLIMS AND ‘INTEGRATION’, Parvez Ahmed http://www.theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/american_muslims_and_integration/

An Assessment of Christian-Muslim Dialogue, Walid Saif http://www.wcc-coe.org/wcc/what/interreligious/cd36-07.html

An Interfaith Declaration for Peace http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/an_interfaith_declaratiion_for_peace/

An Islamic ideal of non-violence, Zeeshan Hasan http://www.progressiveislam.org/islamic_ideal_non_violence

Arab non-violence university fights for peace, Matthew Wright http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=1&article_id=106359#axzz1IN32Qv00

The Arab peace initiative 2002 document http://www.al-bab.com/arab/docs/league/peace02.htm

The Arab peace initiative, Hussein Ibish http://www.bitterlemons-api.org/inside.php?id=43

Archbishop of Canterbury’s Speech at al-Azhar http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/interfaith_archbishop_of_canterburys_speech_at_al_azhar/

Are Islam and Christianity on a Collision Course, Interview with Seyyed Hossein Nasr and John Esposito, http://www.beliefnet.com/story/16/story_1631_1.html

Assessing the Myths of Interfaith Dialogue, David Shasha http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/assessing_the_myths_of_interfaith_dialogue/

At the crossroad of Islam, the West, Tariq Ramadan http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/at_the_crossroad_of_islam_the_west/

Barriers to Dialogue, Ruquaiyyah Waris Maqsood, http://www.theamericanmuslim.org/2002nov_comments.php?id=136_0_16_0_C

Bases and Boundaries of Jewish, Muslim, Christian Dialogue, Zalman N. Schachter, http://www.interfaithdialog.org/Articles/Schachter.pdf

Basis for Hindu-Muslim Dialogue, Riffat Hassan http://www.interfaithdialog.org/Articles/Hassan.pdf

The Battle of the Films - Obsession and Fitna Versus Schism, Sheila Musaji http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/obsession_fitna_and_schism/

Benedict XVI and Islam: the first year, Abdal Hakim Murad http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/benedict_xvi_and_islam_the_first_year/

Beyond the Condemnation of Terrorism, Louay Safi
http://www.theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/beyond_the_condemnation_of_terrorism

Beyond Hindu and Muslim: Dara Shikohs Quest for Spiritual Unity, Yoginder Sikand http://www.theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/beyond_hindu_and_muslim_dara_shikohs_quest_for_spiritual_unity/

Beyond The Tower of Babel: A Linguistic Approach to Clarifying Key Concepts in Islamic Pluralism, Jeremy Henzell-Thomas http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/beyond_the_tower_of_babel_a_linguistic_approach_to_clarifying_key_concepts/

Bibliography of books on Islam and non-violence http://nonviolenceinternational.net/islambib_001.htm

BOOK REVIEW: Me and You Beyond Belief, Together: A Path to Peace All Our Faiths Can Share, Sheila Musaji http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/book_review6/

British and Muslim, Abdul Hakim Murad http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/british_and_muslim/

British Muslims, Europe and the Holocaust, Yahya Birt http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/british_muslims_europe_and_the_holocaust/

Building Bridges and Interfaith Harmony - India-Pakistan Trip Report, Iftekhar Hai http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/building_bridges_and_interfaith_harmony_india_pakistan_trip_report/

Building Bridges Between Sikhs and Muslims, Yoginder Sikand http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/building_bridges_between_sikhs_and_muslims/

Bridging the Chasm Between Islam and the West, Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf http://www.asmasociety.org/perspectives/letter.html

Sheikh Abdul Aziz Bukhari, Palestinian non-violent leader http://www.jpost.com/Israel/Article.aspx?id=177302

John Muhammed Butt - American convert to Islam preaching moderation in Afghanistan and Pakistan http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/9369142.stm

Catastrophe in Gaza - How Can the Cycle of Violence Be Stopped?, by Sheila Musaji http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/catastrophe_in_gaza_how_can_the_cycle_of_violence_be_stopped/

Christian-Muslim Relations, Tarek Mitri, http://www.ncccusa.org/news/02news96a.html

Christian, Muslim Scholars Agree Reconciliation, Conflict Inevitable http://www.christianpost.com/article/20080731/christian-muslim-scholars-agree-reconciliation-conflict-inevitable/index.html

Choosing an Abundant Life, by Jeremy Henzell-Thomas http://www.theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/choosing_an_abundant_life/

Civilizational Dialogue and the Islamic World, Seyyed Hossein Nasr http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/civilizational_dialogue_and_the_islamic_world/

CLASH/DIALOGUE OF CIVILIZATIONS - ORIENTALISM - article collection http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/clash_dialogue_of_civilizations_orientalism/

Common Ground Between Islam and Christianity, Charles Nelson, http://www.interfaithdialog.org/Articles/Nelson.pdf

Continuities and Discontinuities in Islamic Perspectives on Cultural Diversity, Sulayman S. Nyang http://www.theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/continuities_and_discontinuities_in_islamic_perspectives_on_cultural_divers/0015424

Cultivating an Inner Life for Ourselves, Our Children and Our World, Abdul-Lateef Abdullah http://www.theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/cultivating_an_inner_life_for_ourselves_our_children_and_our_world/

Daring to be European Muslims, H. A. Hellyer http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/daring_to_be_european_muslims_2/

Deconstructing Neo-Conservative Ideology & Constructing a Faith-Based Future Based on “A Common Word, Dr. Robert D. Crane http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/deconstructing_neo_conservative_ideology_constructing_a_faith_based_future_/

Debating Non-Violent Islamism, Marc Lynch (Tariq Ramadan) http://lynch.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2010/06/24/debating_non_violent_islamism

Despite Religious Violence, Egyptian Mosques Calling for Muslim-Christian Unity, H.A. Hellyer http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/despite_religious_violence_egyptian_mosques_calling_for_muslim-christi/

Dialogue, a necessary conversation, Ebrahim Rasool http://www.libertymagazine.org/article/articleview/644/1/99/

Dialogigical Relationship Between Christianity and Islam, Hasan Askari, http://www.interfaithdialog.org/Articles/Askarieh.pdf

Dialogue is a Necessity, Jeremy Rifkin, http://www.theamericanmuslim.org/2002nov_comments.php?id=139_0_16_0_C

Dialogue of Civilizations & The Globalization of Spirit, Kabir Helminski http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/dialogue_of_civilizations_the_globalization_of_spirit/
Dialogue of Civilizations & The Globalization of Spirit, Kabir Helminski http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/dialogue_of_civilizations_the_globalization_of_spirit/

Does Islam Promote Violence?, Dr. Javeed Akhter http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/does_islam_promote_violence/

Egyptian Christians: Strangers in their Native Land!, Aladdin Elaasar http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/egyptian_christians_strangers_in_their_native_land

Egypt’s non-violent jihad and the lurking military crocodile, Sheila Musaji http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/egypts_non-violent_jihad_and_the_lurking_military_crocodile/

Exploring the Possibility of Hindu-Muslim Dialogue, Kana Mitra, http://www.interfaithdialog.org/Articles/Mitra.pdf

Evil and God’s Chosen, Dr. Nazir Khaja and Rabbi Steven Jacob http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/evil_and_gods_chosen/

Faith in the future: Islam after the Enlightenment, Abdal-Hakim Murad http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/faith_in_the_future_islam_after_the_enlightenment/

First-Ever Interfaith Series to Air on Bridges Television Network ─ American Muslim TV http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/first_ever_interfaith_series_to_air_on_bridges_television_network_american_/

Forecasting the Future of Islam in Europe and in America, Dr. Robert D. Crane http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/forecasting_the_future_of_islam_in_europe_and_in_america/

Freedom of Religion in Christian, Buddhist, Sunni, and Shi’a Jurisprudence: The Role of ‘ ‘Ilm al ‘Adl, Dr. Robert D. Crane http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/freedom_of_religion_in_christian_buddhist_sunni_and_shia_jurisprudence_the_/

Fundamentals and Fundamentalism: A Parting of the Ways in Islam, Shaykh Ahmed Abdur Rashid
http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/fundamentals_and_fundamentalism_a_parting_of_the_ways_in_islam/

Getting To Know One Another, Dr. Hesham A. Hassaballa http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/getting_to_know_one_another/

Great Theft: Wrestling Islam From the Extremists (Khaled Abou El Fadl), Melanie Colburn http://www.theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/interview_with_dr_khaled_abou_el_fadl_the_great_theft_wrestling_islam_from/

Great Rabbis of the Muslim Empire, Dr. Ezra Chwat http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/great_rabbis_of_the_muslim_empire/

Healing our Brokenness, Muzammil Siddiqui http://www.crescentlife.com/heal%20the%20world/healing_our_broken-ness.htm

The Heart of Tolerance: The Prophetic Paradigm Towards Inter-Religious Dialogue, Azam Nizamuddin, Esq. http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/the_heart_of_tolerance_the_prophetic_paradigm_towards_inter_religious_dialo/

Historic Interfaith Meeting: First World Conference of Imams and Rabbis for Peace http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/historic_interfaith_meeting_first_world_conference_of_imams_and_rabbis_for/

Hope, Not Hate: On the future of Western-Muslim World Relations, Mas’ood Cajee http://www.theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/hope_not_hate_on_the_future_of_western_muslim_world_relations/

How to Make Interfaith Dialogue More Productive, By Dr. Bahar Bastani http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/how_to_make_interfaith_dialogue_more_productive/

HUDNA
- Hudna: A Long-Range Islamic Strategy for Conflict Resolution, Dr. Robert D. Crane http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/hudna_a_long_range_islamic_strategy_for_conflict_resolution/
- Preparing the Way for Hudna, Irfan Husain http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/preparing_the_way_for_hudna/
- Hudna: Those Who Live by the Sword Shall Die by It, Dr. Robert D. Crane http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/hudna_those_who_live_by_the_sword_shall_die_by_it/
- Hudna: An Islamic Strategy in the Offing?, Dr. Robert D. Crane http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/hudna_an_islamic_strategy_in_the_offing/
- Hudna: A Rationale and Platform for Peaceful Engagement, Dr. Robert D. Crane http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/hudna_a_rationale_and_platform_for_peaceful_engagement/
- The War Between Israel and the Neo-Cons: Can Muslims Save the Jews?, Dr. Robert D. Crane http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/the_war_between_israel_and_the_neo_cons/
- Peace through Justice: A Strategy of Hudna to Eliminate the Iranian Nuclear Bomb, Dr. Robert D. Crane http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/peace_through_justice_a_strategy_of_hudna_to_eliminate_the_iranian_nuclear/
- Hudna or Apocalypse: A Tipping Point for Palestine?, Dr. Robert D. Crane http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/hudna_or_apocalypse_a_tipping_point_for_palestine/
- Hamas and Hudna: Keys to Peace in the Holy Land, Dr. Robert D. Crane http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/hamas_and_hudna_keys_to_peace_in_the_holy_land/

Human Rights and Tolerance within Islam: Legal, Political, and Spiritual Perspectives, Dr. Robert D. Crane http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/human_rights_and_tolerance_within_islam/

INTERFAITH DIALOGUE ISSUES - article collection http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/interfaith_dialogue_issues/

Interfaith Dialogue: Arab-Jewish Forum, Dr. Tony Klug http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/interfaith_dialogue_arab_jewish_forum/

Interfaith Dialogue: Not Just for the Abrahamic Faiths, Iftekhar Hai http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/interfaith_dialogue_not_just_for_the_abrahamic_faiths/

Interfaith Guidelines on Human Rights, Pluralism, Democracy, and Authority, Dr. Robert D. Crane http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/interfaith_guidelines_on_human_rights_pluralism_democracy_and_authority

Interfaith, not infidel, By Iftekhar Hai http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/interfaith_not_infidel/

Interview with Lawrence Pintak: “We Must Be Capable of Dialogue”, Bernhard Hillencamp http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/interview_with_lawrence_pintak_we_must_be_capable_of_dialogue/

Interview With Reverend Jack Cory, Christian-Muslim Dialogue Group, Sheila Musaji http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/interview_with_reverend_jack_cory_christian_muslim_dialogue_group_part_i_ii/

Is Peace Possible Between Muslims and Jews?, Shahed Athar http://www.islam-usa.com/Jews.htm

Is Religion Bad For The World?, Hesham Hassaballa http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/is_religion_bad_for_the_world/

Islam and Coexistence: What I Didn’t Say and Missionary Myopia, Dr. Habib Siddiqui http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/islam_and_coexistence_what_i_didnt_say_and_missionary_myopia

Islam and Christianity: Diatribe or Dialogue? Ismail al Faruqi, http://www.interfaithdialog.org/Articles/Al-Faruqi.pdf

Islam and Judaism, Akbar S. Ahmed http://www.islamfortoday.com/akbar01.htm

Islam and Other Religions, Ismail al Faruqi http://saif_w.tripod.com/interfaith/general/islam_and_other_religions.htm

Islam in the West, Dr. Murad Hoffman http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/islam_in_the_west/

Islam, Nonviolence, and Interfaith Relations, M. Mazzahim Mohideen http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/islam_nonviolence_and_interfaith_relations

Islam, Nonviolence & Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. - Khutbah by Imam Khalid Latif (video) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e91wfqT76Cs

Islam and Nonviolence: Introduction, Chaiwat Satha-Anand (Qader Muheideen) http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/islam_and_nonviolence_introduction/

“Islam and non-violence” seminar in Chennai on April 26, 2010 http://twocircles.net/2010apr20/islam_and_non_violence_seminar_chennai_april_26th.html

Islam and the Question of Violence, Seyyed Hossein Nasr http://www.theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/islam_and_the_question_of_violence/0015596

Islam, Violence and Non Violence, Imam A. Rashied Omar http://www.theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/islam_violence_and_non_violence/0015597

Islam, Nonviolence, and Women, Khalijah Mohd. Salleh http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/islam_nonviolence_and_women/

Islam, Nonviolence, and National Transformation, Abdurrahman Wahid http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/islam_nonviolence_and_national_transformation/

Islam, Nonviolence, and Global Transformation, Razi Ahmad http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/islam_nonviolence_and_global_transformation/

Islam, Nonviolence, and Social Transformation - Part I, Mamoon-al-Rasheed http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/islam_nonviolence_and_social_transformation/

Islam, the Religion of Peace, Sr. Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/islam_the_religion_of_peace/

ISLAM HAS A SPIRITUAL DIMENSION FOR THE SPIRITUAL PERFECTION OF HUMANITY http://www.theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/islam_has_a_spiritual_dimension_for_the_spiritual_perfection_of_humanity/

Islamic-Buddhist Dialogue, Dr. Alexander Berzin http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/islamic_buddhist_dialogue/

Islamic Spirituality in the Modern World: Spiritual Dimensions of Said Nursis Risale-i-Nur, Kamran Mofid, Ph.D. http://www.theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/islamic_spirituality_in_the_modern_world_spiritual_dimensions_of_said_nursi/

Islamic Spirituality: The Forgotten Revolution, Abdal Hakim Murad http://www.theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/islamic_spirituality_the_forgotten_revolution/

Islamic Non-Violence: The Legacy of Badshah Khan, Shahed Amanullah http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/islamic_non_violence_the_legacy_of_badshah_khan/

Islamic non-violence, Zeeshan Hasan http://sites.google.com/site/liberalislamnet/nonviolence

Islamic Non-Violence, Rev. Frank W. Carpenter http://uupeacemakers.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=431:islamic&catid=126:eas&Itemid=136

Islamic Sharia and Jewish Halakha Arbitration Courts, Sheila Musaji http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/islamic_sharia_and_jewish_halakha_arbitration_courts/

“Islamic Traditions of Peace and Nonviolence: Responding to Contemporary Challenges”, Rumi Foundation Conference http://www.rumiforum.org/conferences/islamic-traditions-of-peace-and-nonviolence.html

Islam’s Forsaken Renaissance, Mahathir bin Mohamad http://www.theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/islams_forsaken_renaissance/0015426

Jews, Christians, & Muslims: From A Conflicting Past To A Future of Tolerance, Mushfiqur Rahman
http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/jews_christians_muslims_from_a_conflicting_past_to_a_future_of_tolerance/

Jawdat Said and Islam as a Violence-Free Religion, Bashar Humeid http://www.theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/islam_as_a_violence_free_religion/0015594

Jesus in the Qur’an: an Akbari Perspective, Reza Shah-Kazemi, http://theamericanmuslim.org/2003jan_comments.php?id=234_0_17_0_C

Jewish-Muslim Dialogue and the Value of Peace, Jacob Bender http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/jewish_muslim_dialogue_and_the_value_of_peace/

Jewish sages on “lesser jihad” and “greater jihad”, Svend White http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/jewish_sages_on_lesser_jihad_and_greater_jihad/

Jews, Christians & Muslims: From A Conflicting Past to a Future of Tolerance, Mushfiqur Rahman, http://www.theamericanmuslim.org/2002nov_comments.php?id=193_0_16_0_C

Jihad of Tears, Edward Miller, Esq. http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/jihad_of_tears/

Judaism and Islam: Beyond Tolerance, His Majesty King Abdullah of Jordan http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/judaism_and_islam_beyond_tolerance/

Khan, Abdul Ghaffar aka Badshah Khan:
- Peace-Maker from the Heart of Islam, by Tenzin Rigzin http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/khan_abdul_ghaffar_peace_maker_from_the_heart_of_islam/
- Non-violence in Islam, Danish Peace Academy http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/khan_abdal_ghaffar_nonviolence_in_islam/
- Can’t We Be Like Abdul Ghaffar Khan?, by Dr Thomas Michel S.J. http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/khan_abdul_ghaffar_cant_we_be_like_abdul_ghaffar_khan/
- Remembering a Non-Violent Soldier, Dr Fazal-ur-Rahim Marwat http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/khan_abdul_ghaffar_remembering_a_non_violent_soldier
- The forgotten Muslim hero, Chan’ad Bahraini http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/badshah_khan_the_forgotten_muslim_hero/
- Abdul Ghaffar Khan, Islam and non-violence, Ishtiaq Ahmed http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/abdul_ghaffar_khan_islam_and_non-violence/
- A Pacifist Uncovered: Abdul Ghaffar Khan, Amitabh Pal http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/a_pacifist_uncovered_abdul_ghaffar_khan/
- The Abraham Federation: A Non-Violent Strategy of Satyagraha for Jews and Arabs in the Holy Land, Dr. Robert D. Crane http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/the_abraham_federation_a_non_violent_strategy_of_satyagraha_for_jews_and_ar/
- Islamic Non-Violence: The Legacy of Badshah Khan, Shahed Amanullah http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/islamic_non_violence_the_legacy_of_badshah_khan/
- Badshah Khan: The forgotten Muslim hero, Chan’ad Bahraini http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/badshah_khan_the_forgotten_muslim_hero/
- Can’t We Be Like Abdul Ghaffar Khan?, Dr Thomas Michel S.J. http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/khan_abdul_ghaffar_cant_we_be_like_abdul_ghaffar_khan/
- Mohandas Gandhi, Abdul Ghaffar Khan, and the Middle East Today, Rajmohan Gandhi http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/mohandas_gandhi_abdul_ghaffar_khan_and_the_middle_east_today/
- Muslim Violence, Christian Non-Violence: People in Glass Houses Should Not Throw Words, Sheila Musaji http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/muslim_violence_christian_non_violence_people_in_glass_houses_should_not_th/
- Peace-Maker from the Heart of Islam, Tenzin rigzin http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/khan_abdul_ghaffar_peace_maker_from_the_heart_of_islam/
- Peace Through Justice in the Holy Land: Abdul Ghaffar Khan’s Spiritual Jihad, Dr. Robert D. Crane http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/peace_through_justice_in_the_holy_land_the_spiritual_jihad_of_satyagraha/
- Remembering a Non-Violent Soldier, Dr Fazal-ur-Rahim Marwat http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/khan_abdul_ghaffar_remembering_a_non_violent_soldier/
- Structure, Chance, and Choice: Abdul Ghaffar Khan and the Khudai Khidmitgars, Damon Lynch http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/structure_chance_and_choice_abdul_ghaffar_khan_and_the_khudai_khidmitgars/
- Pioneer of non-violence http://en.qantara.de/webcom/show_article.php/_c-478/_nr-728/i.html

Knowledge, Unity, and Tolerance: The Sufism of Mahmud Shabistari, David Fideler http://www.theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/knowledge_unity_and_tolerance_the_sufism_of_mahmud_shabistari/

The Land of Canaan should be a Place of Peace and Reconciliation for all True Religions, Harun Yahya http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/the_land_of_canaan_should_be_a_place_of_peace_and_reconciliation_for_all_tr/

Lack of Knowledge About “the Other”, Akbar S. Ahmed, http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/03313/237958.stm

Languages of the Heart, Linda Malas, http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/languages_of_the_heart/

Legacy of Abraham, Sheila Musaji, http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/the_legacy_of_abraham/

Legitimate and Illegitimate Acts of Violence, John Esposito http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/georgetown/2007/07/legitimate_and_illegitimate_ac.html

Let Muslims, Christians unite behind Jesus’ mission, Imam Mohammad Ali Elahi http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/let_muslims_christians_unite_behind_jesus_mission/

Light on horizon for interfaith peace Muslim-Christian dialogue offers hope, Douglas Roche http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/light_on_horizon_for_interfaith_peace_muslim_christian_dialogue_offers_hope

Love for Jesus Can Bring Christians, Muslims Together, Ibrahim Hooper http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/love_for_jesus_can_bring_christians_muslims_together/

Matzoh, Moses and Muslims, Hesham Hassaballa, http://www.mediamonitors.net/heshamahassaballa11.html

Metaphysics of Interfaith Dialogue, Reza Shah-Kazemi, Part I - http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/the_metaphysics_of_interfaith_dialogue_part_i/

Medieval Philosophical Discourse and Muslim Christian Dialogue, Mehdi Aminrazavi http://www.islamonline.net/iol-english/qadaya/islamic-1/islamic1.asp

Mission of Muslims in America: A Grand Strategy to Marginalize Extremists, Dr. Robert Dickson Crane http://www.theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/mission_of_muslims_in_america_a_grand_strategy_to_marginalize_extremists_pa/

Muslim-Christian Dialogue, Jamal Badawi http://www.messageonline.org/2002febmarch/cover5.htm

Muslim Minorities in Europe, H.A. Hellyer http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/muslim_minorities_in_europe/

Muslim Scholars Appeal to Christian Scholars for Dialogue and Peace - “A Common Word”, Sheila Musaji http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/unprecedented_plea_from_muslim_to_christian_scholars_on_eve_of_eid/

Muslim Violence, Christian Non-Violence: People in Glass Houses Should Not Throw Words, Sheila Musaji http://www.theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/muslim_violence_christian_non_violence_people_in_glass_houses_should_not_th/0015352

Muslims and Buddhists in Asia, Chandra Muzaffar http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/muslims_and_buddhists_in_asia/

Muslims and Jews, Sound Vision, http://soundvision.com/info/politics/tipsjewish.asp

Muslims and European Integration, Farish A Noor http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/muslims_and_european_integration/

Muslims and Buddhists in Asia, Chandra Muzaffar, http://www.theamericanmuslim.org/2003jan_comments.php?id=237_0_17_0_C

Muslims & Buddhists in Asia, Chandra Muzaffar, http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/muslims_and_buddhists_in_asia/

Muslims and Jews: Let us coexist, Azzam Tamimi http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/muslims_and_jews_let_us_coexist/

Muslims and Non-Muslims: Can We Work Together for the Good of All? http://soundvision.com/info/million/cooperation.asp

Muslims and the European Right, Sheikh Abdal-Hakim Murad http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/muslims_and_the_european_right/

Muslims Engaging the Other and the Humanum, Farid Esack, Part I - http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/muslims_engaging_the_other_and_the_humanum_part_i/

Mohandas Gandhi, Abdul Ghaffar Khan, and the Middle East Today, by Rajmohan Gandhi http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/mohandas_gandhi_abdul_ghaffar_khan_and_the_middle_east_today/

Muslim Violence, Christian Non-Violence: People in Glass Houses Should Not Throw Words, Sheila Musaji http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/muslim_violence_christian_non_violence_people_in_glass_houses_should_not_th/

MUSLIM VOICES AGAINST TERRORISM (article collection) http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/muslim_voices_against_terrorism/

Muslims Must Develop an Intolerance for Intolerance, Muqtedar Khan http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/muslims_must_develop_an_intolerance_for_intolerance/

Necessity of Interfaith Dialogue, Fethullah Gulen http://www.fethullahgulen.org/articles/interfaith.html

New Perspectives for Jewish-Muslim-Christian Dialogue, Mohammed Arkoun, http://www.interfaithdialog.org/Articles/Arkoun.pdf

The noblest revenge, Hasan Zillur Rahim http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/the_noblest_revenge/

Non-Violence and Islam, Maulana Wahiduddin Khan http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/non_violence_and_islam/

Non-violence in the Islamic context, Mohammed Abu-Nimer http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/non_violence_in_the_islamic_context/

Non Violence, Violence, Peace, Justice and Change in Islam, Dr. Muqtedar Khan http://www.theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/non_violence_violence_peace_justice_and_change_in_islam/0015595

Non-Violence in Islamic Teachings, Imam Muhammad Shirazi http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/non_violence_in_islamic_teachings/

Non-Violence is the Alternative, Dr. Aslam Abdullah http://www.islamicity.com/articles/Articles.asp?ref=IC0912-4016

Non-Violent Resistance In Islam http://insideislam.wisc.edu/index.php/archives/7469

Nonviolent resistance in Palestine, Patrick O’Connor http://www.ifamericansknew.org/media/nonviolent.html

North American Muslims Determined to Counter Violence and Terrorism, Sheila Musaji http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/north_american_muslims_determined_to_counter_violence_and_terrorism/

Said Nursi, Muslim advocate of non-violence http://www.thepenmagazine.net/index.php/said-nursi-muslim-advocate-of-non-violence/

On Forgiveness, Dr. Irfan Ahmad Khan http://www.theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/on_forgiveness/

On Theories of Peace and Conflict Resolution, Asghar Ali Engineer http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/on_theories_of_peace_and_conflict_resolution/

On Holocaust exploiters, deniers, and heroes, Mas’ood Cajee http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/on_holocaust_exploiters_deniers_and_heroes/

On Theories of Peace and Conflict Resolution, Asghar Ali Engineer http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/on_theories_of_peace_and_conflict_resolution/

One God, Many Names, Dr. Umar Faruq Abd-Allah http://www.theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/one_god_many_names/

One River, Many Wells, Larry Reimer & Zeeshan Bhatti, http://www.ucgainesville.org/pages/sermons/010930.htm

Oneness of Allah and the Oneness of His Community, Shaikh Ahmed Abdur Rashid, http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/the_oneness_of_allah_and_the_oneness_of_his_community/

Our common Abrahamic heritage, Javeed Akhter http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/our_common_abrahamic_heritage/

Our Shared Present and Future, Tariq Ramadan, http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/our_shared_present_and_future/

OVERCOMING RELIGIOUSLY MOTIVATED VIOLENCE, by Imam A. Rashied Omar http://www.islamamerica.org/articles.cfm/article_id/81/

Pacifism in Islam http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacifism_in_Islam

The Pacifism of Islam, Harun Yahya http://us1.harunyahya.com/Detail/T/EDCRFV/productId/2109/THE_PACIFISM_OF_ISLAM_

Palestine - An Appeal For a Non-Violent Global Resistance Movement, Tariq Ramadan http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/palestine_an_appeal_for_a_non_violent_global_resistance_movement/
Palestinian Nonviolence: Would It Work?, by Marty Jezer http://www.commondreams.org/views02/0531-06.htm

Peace and Islam: a bibliography http://www.nonviolenceinternational.net/wiki/index.php/Regional

Peace in a Plural Society, Maulana Wahiduddin Khan http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/peace_in_a_plural_society/

The Peace of Abraham, Hagar, & Sarah: Sharing Sacred Seasons This Fall, Tent of Abraham http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/the_peace_of_abraham_hagar_sarah_sharing_sacred_seasons_this_fall

Peace Through Justice in the Holy Land: Abdul Ghaffar Khan’s Spiritual Jihad, by Dr. Robert D. Crane http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/peace_through_justice_in_the_holy_land_the_spiritual_jihad_of_satyagraha/

Peace Between Religions, Syed Hashim Ali, http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/peace_between_religions/

People of Faith Must Be Bridge Builders, Dr. Hesham A. Hassaballa http://www.theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/people_of_faith_must_be_bridge_builders/

People of the Book & the Muslims, Harun Yahya, http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/people_of_the_book_the_muslims_the_natural_alliance_between_christianity_ju/

Pilgrimage for Peace - From Ayodhya to Ajmer, Asghar Ali Engineer http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/pilgrimage_for_peace_from_ayodhya_to_ajmer/

The Place of Tolerance in Islam: On Reading the Qur’an - and Misreading It, Khaled Abou El Fadl, Ph.D. http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/the_place_of_tolerance_in_islam_on_reading_the_quran_and_misreading_it/

Prophet Muhammad’s Charter to the Monks of St. Catherine’s Monastery http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/prophet_muhammads_charter_to_the_monks_of_st_catherines_monastery/

Professor Muriel Walker: An Interfaith Hero, by Sheharyar Shaikh http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/professor_muriel_walker_an_interfaith_hero/

Progress in Inter-religious Dialogue, Maulana Wahiduddin Khan, http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/progress_in_inter_religious_dialogue/

Pseudo-Religiosity is Leading Human Civilization to Commit Suicide, Irfan Ahmad Khan, Ph.D.http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/pseudo_religiosity_is_leading_human_civilization_to_commit_suicide/

Putting Christian-Muslim Dialogue to the Test, Aiman Mazyek http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/putting_christian_muslim_dialogue_to_the_test/

Qalaba: The Turning of the Heart, Shaykh Fadhlalla Haeri http://www.theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/qalaba_the_turning_of_the_heart/

Qur’an & Hadith Against Extremism http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/quranic_verses_against_extremism/ and Sound Hadith on Nonviolence, Peace, and Justice, Compiled by Dr. M. Hafiz Syed, Edited by Kabir Helminski http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/a_collection_of_sound_hadith_on_nonviolence_peace_and_justice/

Reflections on the Meeting Between Catholics and Muslims At the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue, Abdal Hakim Murad http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/reflections_on_the_meeting_between_catholics_and_muslims_at_the_pontifical_/

Re-Imagining Sikh-Muslim Relations in the Light of the Life of Baba Nanak, Yoginder Sikand http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/re_imagining_sikh_muslim_relations_in_the_light_of_the_life_of_baba_nanak/

Religion, A Source of Conflict or a Resource for Peace in South Asia?, Asghar Ali Engineer http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/religion_a_source_of_conflict_or_a_resource_for_peace_in_south_asia/

Religion and violence: another look at Islamophobia and anti-Semitism, Hussein Ibish http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/religion_and_violence_another_look_at_islamophobia_and_anti-semitism/

Religion, Peace Dialogue: Maulana Wahiduddin Khan’s Search for a Relevant Islamic Theology, Yoginder Sikand http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/religion_peace_dialogue_maulana_wahiduddin_khans_search_for_a_relevant_isla

Religious Tribalism: A Major Obstacle to Peace through Justice, Dr. Robert D. Crane http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/religious_tribalism_a_major_obstacle_to_peace_through_justice/

The Role of People of Conscience in Cultivating Peace and Preventing Human Rights Abuse, Abukar Arman http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/the_role_of_people_of_conscience_in_cultivating_peace_and_preventing_human_/

Roots of Misconception: From the Middle Ages through the Modern Period: The European Discovery of Islam, Ibrahim Kalin http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/roots_of_misconception_from_the_middle_ages_through_the_modern_period_the_e/

Rumi: “Wherever you turn …” , Waliya Inayat Perkins http://www.theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/rumi_wherever_you_turn/

Rumi’s Language of the Soul & Humanity’s Defining Moment, Kabir Helminski http://www.theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/rumis_langauge_of_the_soul_humanitys_defining_moment/

Sacrifice of Abraham, Tariq Ramadan, http://max211.free.fr/articles/anglais/articles-abraham.htm

The Season for Non-Violence, Narjis Pierre http://www.nuradeen.com/contributions/narjis-pierre/the-season-for-non-violence/

Setting the Agenda of Christian-Muslim Dialogue, Tarek Mitri http://www.islamonline.net/english/Contemporary/2002/05/Article5.shtml

Seven Pillars of Tolerance in Islam, Fahmi Howeidi http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/seven_pillars_of_tolerance/

“So That You May Know One Another”: The Role of People of Faith in the 21st Century, Dr. Hesham A. Hassaballa http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/so_that_you_may_know_one_another_the_role_of_people_of_faith_in_the_21st_ce/

SONAD: Muslims and Christians united for peace in Sudan http://habitusnetwork.org/country-reports/muslims-and-christians-united-for-nonviolence-in-sudan.html

Sound Hadith on Nonviolence, Peace, and Justice, Compiled by Dr. M. Hafiz Syed, Edited by Kabir Helminski http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/a_collection_of_sound_hadith_on_nonviolence_peace_and_justice/

The Spirit of Tolerance in Islam, Dr. Muzammil Siddiqi http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/the_spirit_of_tolerance_in_islam/

SPIRITUALITY COLLOQUIUM: The Nature of Evil http://www.theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/spirituality_colloquium_the_nature_of_evil/

Structure, Chance, and Choice: Abdul Ghaffar Khan and the Khudai Khidmitgars, by Damon Lynch http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/structure_chance_and_choice_abdul_ghaffar_khan_and_the_khudai_khidmitgars/

The Sufi Approach to Islam, Spiritual Healing and World Peace, Ali Ansari http://www.theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/the_sufi_approach_to_islam_spiritual_healing_and_world_peace/

Sufism & The Eleventh Hour, Kabir Helminski http://www.theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/sufism_the_eleventh_hour/

Supporting Nonviolence in Islam, Sarah Sayeed, Ph.D. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sarah-sayeed-phd/100-muslim-leaders-suppor_b_846959.html

The Taliban and Nonviolence? It Happened Before: Transformative Love, Renewing Islam, Nicholas Patler http://www.ekurd.net/mismas/articles/misc2011/2/article69.htm

That Muslims and Jews Coexist Is Not an Option - It Is An Imperative, Dr. Abdul Cader Asmal
http://www.theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/that_muslims_and_jews_coexist_is_not_an_option_it_is_an_imperative/

Their Children Are Our Children, Robert Silvey http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/their_children_are_our_children/

Terrorism or Dialogue and Justice?, Kamran Mofid http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/terrorism_or_dialogue_and_justice/

Terrorism, Jihad, and the Struggle for New Understandings, Dr. Antony T. Sullivan http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/terrorism_terrorism_jihad_and_the_struggle_for_new_understandings/

That Muslims and Jews Coexist Is Not an Option - It Is An Imperative, Dr. Abdul Cader Asmal http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/that_muslims_and_jews_coexist_is_not_an_option_it_is_an_imperative/

There is no room for violence in Islam http://www.spotlightofpeace.com/islam-and-peace/there-is-no-room-for-violence-in-islam/

To Win, Palestinians Must Adopt a Nonviolent Strategy, by Mubarak Awad http://www.commondreams.org/views02/0412-06.htm

Treating Christmas With Respect, Abdul Malik Mujahid, http://www.soundvision.com/info/christmas/ctreat.asp

Trinity - a Muslim Perspective, Abdal-Hakim Murad, http://www.islamfortoday.com/murad03.htm

The Truth About Islam: An Alternate View, Andrew Morris http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/the_truth_about_islam_an_alternate_view/

Turning Our Anguish Into Solidarity, Imam A. Rashied Omar, http://www.theamericanmuslim.org/2002nov_comments.php?id=199_0_16_0_C

Update on “A Common Word Between Us and You” An Appeal From Muslim Scholars For Dialogue and Peace, Sheila Musaji http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/update_on_a_common_word_between_us_and_you_an_appeal_from_muslim_scholars_f/

Values of Peacebuilding and Nonviolence in Islam: Ideals and Reality, Mohammed Abu-Nimer http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/values_of_peacebuilding_and_nonviolence_in_islam_ideals_and_reality/

Violence And Non-Violence In Islam: Jihadi, Just-War, and Active Non-Violence, Mohammad Iqbal Ahnaf http://www.futureislam.com/20050701/insight/Md_Iqbal_Ahnaf/Violence_and_Non-Violence_In_Islam.asp

Violence Extinguishes the Light of Islam, Dr. Hesham Hassaballa http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/violence_extinguishes_the_light_of_islam/

Walk like an Egyptian, Imam Abdul Malik Mujahid http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/walk_like_an_egyptian/

We must love others to be loved by God, Dr. Shahid Athar http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/we_must_love_others_to_be_loved_by_god/

What is a Truly Universal Spirituality?, Shaykh Kabir Helminski http://www.theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/what_is_a_truly_universal_spirituality/

What is the Contribution of Religions Toward Peace?, Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf
http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/spirituality_what_is_the_contribution_of_religions_toward_peace/

What the Muslim world can teach us about non-violence, Randell Amster http://www.truth-out.org/what-muslim-world-can-teach-us-about-nonviolence56684

What Would Muhammad Do (WWMD), Dr. Hesham Hassaballa http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/what_would_muhammad_do_wwmd

Whither Muslims?, Aslam Abdullah http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/whither_muslims/

Wikipedia, Prophet Muhammad, and Muslims in need of Islam 101, Sheila Musaji http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/wikipedia_prophet_muhammad_and_muslims_in_need_of_islam_101/

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ORGANIZATIONS:

American Muslim Interactive Network http://www.amindc.org/
American Muslim Peace Initiative http://www.american-peace.org/
Inner City Muslim Action Network http://www.imancentral.org/
Islamic Movement for Non-Violence http://www.islamnon-violence.org/
Muslim Peace Fellowship http://mpf21.wordpress.com/

and, Muslims are active in many interfaith peace groups http://www.theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/tam/linkcategory/C138/