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Secularism, Islam & Democracy: Muslims In Europe And The West
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Friday, April 23rd, 2010
In this historic panel, Secularism, Islam & Democracy: Muslims In Europe And The West, Tariq Ramadan makes his first public appearance in the U.S. since being barred from the country in 2004, with the "ideological exclusion provision" of the USA PATRIOT Act cited as the rationale. Joining him are Dalia Mogahed, Senior Analyst and Executive Director of the Gallup Center for Muslim Studies; George Packer, Staff Writer for The New Yorker and author of Interesting Times: Writings from a Turbulent Decade; Joan Wallach Scott, Professor of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study and author of The Politics of the Veil; with Jacob Weisberg, journalist and Editor-in-Chief of The Slate Group, as moderator, and featuring opening remarks by Larry Siems, Director of the PEN American Center's Freedom to Write and International Programs, and Jameel Jaffer, Director of the ACLU's National Security Project.
Ramadan begins the discussion by remarking upon notions of Islam and stressing the inherent multiplicity of identities that all people have, asserting that there is no mutual exclusivity between the religion and secular Western cultures, and that the primary conflict is not between Islam and the West but with erroneous conceptions thereof; this is followed by responses from the rest of the panel. They discuss the cultural, social, economic, educational and religious backgrounds and identities of Muslims in Western societies, the visions and misperceptions that many non-Muslims have of Islam and whether an essential difference between secularism and Islam bars the two from cohabiting harmoniously. Further discussed is Ramadan's consideration of Hassan al-Banna and al-Banna's support for the Nazi regime, notions of the roles of women and homosexuality in Islamic culture and the relation between reason and faith.
Secularism, Islam & Democracy: Muslims In Europe And The West was presented by the American Association of University Professors, the American Civil Liberties Union, PEN American Center and Slate on April 8, 2010, at The Great Hall of Cooper Union in New York City.
Ramadan begins the discussion by remarking upon notions of Islam and stressing the inherent multiplicity of identities that all people have, asserting that there is no mutual exclusivity between the religion and secular Western cultures, and that the primary conflict is not between Islam and the West but with erroneous conceptions thereof; this is followed by responses from the rest of the panel. They discuss the cultural, social, economic, educational and religious backgrounds and identities of Muslims in Western societies, the visions and misperceptions that many non-Muslims have of Islam and whether an essential difference between secularism and Islam bars the two from cohabiting harmoniously. Further discussed is Ramadan's consideration of Hassan al-Banna and al-Banna's support for the Nazi regime, notions of the roles of women and homosexuality in Islamic culture and the relation between reason and faith.
Secularism, Islam & Democracy: Muslims In Europe And The West was presented by the American Association of University Professors, the American Civil Liberties Union, PEN American Center and Slate on April 8, 2010, at The Great Hall of Cooper Union in New York City.
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