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...Tillakaratne ’09, president of the Harvard College Buddhist Community, said that some students seem to make assumptions about her faith, approaching academic discussions with an “I-know-more-about-your-faith-than-you-do kind of attitude.” Wertheimer and Hasan K. Siddiqi ’08, vice president of the Harvard Islamic Society, both described difficulties in following exacting religious requirements while living at Harvard. In keeping the Sabbath on Friday evenings, Wertheimer said, he sometimes finds himself “racing the sunset” to complete a paper. Siddiqi...
...signatories include Sheik Mohammed Nur Abdullah, vice president of the Fiqh Council of North America; Sheikh Salem Falahat, director-general of the Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan; Hasan Shariatmadari, head of the Iranian National Republicans party; and Sheikh Ikrima Said Sabri, former Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and Imam of Al-Aqsa Mosque. "This is a determination by mainstream, traditional Muslim scholars and authorities who cover all the branches of Islam, and that's very unusual," says David Ford, Director of the Inter-Faith Program at the University of Cambridge, who helped launch the letter in London this morning. "It is unapologetic...
...soaked handkerchiefs, immediately lobbed the still smoking shells back at the police before retreating to the court's entryway. But even the entrance provided no refuge; clouds of gas drifted through the open doors. "We are looking at an obscene and unnecessary show of excessive force," said Ali Dayan Hasan, South Asia Researcher for Human Rights Watch, who had come to observe the protests. "This has been wanton brutality against a professional group that is struggling to uphold the rule...
...Islamic Society, said that organizers hoped the event would provide an opportunity to meet and befriend people of the other faith. “We wanted to emphasize what is so similar about our faiths, as a bridge for interfaith understanding,” said Islamic Society Vice President Hasan K. Siddiqi ’08. The break fast occurred at 7:30 p.m., after members of both faiths completed their prayer services. After dinner, Muslim students held another set of prayers and invited Jewish students to observe, Siddiqi said. Students of other faiths were also welcomed at the event...
...picture is somewhat different in the vast space around the city, where insurgents bed down, stash arms and hatch attack plans. There are dozens of tiny villages like Binat al Hasan all around Samarra, some consisting of only three or four houses. Luong says insurgents move from village to village, rarely staying anywhere long for fear of being found by U.S. forces. Luong's troops are now staging two and three air assaults per week in an effort to keep insurgents from settling in the Samarra area as they did in Diyala in the months before the ongoing U.S. drive...