Paul Barrett discusses American Islam: The Struggle For The Soul of a Religion.
Who represents Islam in the United States, a country with 6 million Muslims? Is it the radical imam, the webmaster, the mystic, the feminist? Barrett traveled the country to discover what life is like for American Muslims in different regions of the nation. He finds that Muslims, like the rest of the population, are varied and diverse in look, thought, belief and behavior.
Paul Barrett is the Director of the Investigative Reporting Team for BusinessWeek and the author of American Islam.
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Paul M. Barrett
Paul Barrett is the director of the investigative reporting team at Business Week. He is the author of The Good Black: A True Story of Race in America.
Islam and feminism are incompatible. Men and Women do not enjoy equal rights in Islam.
Surah 2, Vers 2: This is the Scripture whereof there is no doubt, a guidance unto those who ward off (evil).
Surah 4, Vers 34: Men are in charge of women, because Allah hath made the one of them to excel the other, and because they spend of their property (for the support of women). So good women are the obedient, guarding in secret that which Allah hath guarded. As for those from whom ye fear rebellion, admonish them and banish them to beds apart, and BEAT them. Then if they obey you, seek not a way against them. Lo! Allah is ever High, Exalted, Great.
Salam
as long as i listen to that " journalist " i find that he know nothing about Islam and Muslim , beginning with those fairy stories ,first he should know that in Islam women don't pray in line with men and they never did, they pray behind men and there is no discrimination in that.
1:02h listening to all that crap and what make me laugh is what he name as Abdol-kabir his imaginary friend .
The Arab American Community must not be afraid. They should condem publicly islamic terrorisma and actively help in identifying extremists among them. However, this is not happening. Therefore, the muslims are more in bed with their own radicals than with America...
"Death to America" figurative speach? I can't think of any acceptable "figurative" interpretation of this speach....