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The Most Amazing Lecture on Islam and Misconceptions!
Lesley Hazleton is an award-winning British-American writer whose work focuses on the intersection of politics, religion, and history, especially in the Middle East. She reported from Israel for Time, and has written on the Middle East for numerous publications including The New York Times. Lesley's thoughts about Koran, which was recorded at a TEDx conference in Seattle Washington, October 2010. "Lesley Hazleton sat down one day to read the Koran. And what she found -- as a non-Muslim, a self-identified "tourist" in the Islamic holy book—wasn't what she expected. With serious scholarship and warm humor, Hazleton shares the grace, flexibility and mystery she found, in this myth-debunking talk from TEDxRainier." |
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Hakeem Olajuwon - Ramadan
Inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame. Olajuwon is considered one of the greatest centers ever to play the game. Muslim faith In Olajuwon's college career and early years in the NBA, he was often undisciplined, talking back to officials, getting in minor fights with other players and amassing technical fouls. Later, Olajuwon took an active interest in spirituality, becoming a more devout Muslim. On March 9, 1991, he altered his name from Akeem to the proper Arabic spelling Hakeem, saying, "I'm not changing the spelling of my name, I'm correcting it". He later recalled, "I studied the Qur'an every day. At home, at the mosque...I would read it in airplanes, before games and after them. I was soaking up the faith and learning new meanings each time I turned a page. I didn't dabble in the faith, I gave myself over to it." "His religion dominates his life" Clyde Drexler said in 1995. Olajuwon was still recognized as one of the league's elite centers despite his strict observance of Ramadan (e.g., abstaining from food and drink during daylight hours for about a month), which occurred during virtually every season of his career. Olajuwon was noted as sometimes playing better during the month, and in 1995 he was named NBA Player of the Month in February, even though Ramadan began on February 1 of that year. |
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Islamaphobia for Dummies
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P.1 Ground Zero Mosque Islamophobia
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free Qurans to burn for "Burn a Quran Day"
(Click here for full page on video) from YouTube user: ClevonAmerica |
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Muslim Store Owner Forgives Robber
New York (CNN) -- Six months ago, a Long Island convenience store owner turned a would-be robbery into an act of compassion. On Wednesday, the shoplifter made amends with a $50 bill and a thank you letter for saving him from a life of crime. |
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Should Muslims be tattooed or made to wear special identification. Some people think so!!!
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ABC News: How Muslims Are Treated
This is a video taken in Texas USA by ABC channel, about a bakery store. It shows how the owner treats one Muslim girl that was born in USA, who studying in the university of Texas, and treats her as a terrorist as he claims. The video talks about some people in that have misunderstandings about the Muslim community, and how are they treated, very badly almost everyday... This is of course not everybody, it just shows those type of people and their ingnorance towards other minorities. |
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US Guantanamo Guard talks about Islam
Stories are emerging of the way Guantanamo affected those inside. Former inmates have talked about the deprivation and pressures they faced. But Terry Holdbrooks was on the other side. He was a US soldier and he says he saw something in the behaviour of the inmates that changed him. He tells his story to Al Jazeera in his own words. |
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Interview With A Rap Artist about Spirituality
A growing number of rap artists are leaving the bad boy hip hop lifestyle for a more spiritual one. An increasing number of rappers this year have embraced Islam or acknowledged they had in the past. Amir Junaid Muhadith, better known by his stage name, Loon, talks to Al Jazeera's Sami Zeidan about his spiritual journey. |
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When the Moors Ruled Europe
1h 42m
Hosted by Bettany Hughes, When the Moors Ruled in Europe is a stunningly beautiful and informative documentary that debunks a lot of the myths associated with the Moors' invasion of Europe. In the course of doing that, it also illuminates the rich and advanced Muslim society of the Middle Ages, presenting an alternative view of the Islamic culture that has, |
unfortunately, become our modern society's boogeyman. It traces the roots of modern society's misunderstanding of the Muslims to their expansion into Europe. Contrary to popular notions, when they invaded what is now Spain, they were welcomed by many as saviors from the more primitive Visigoths. The Muslims, who valued education highly, quickly established a number of libraries, irrigated the land, and erected architectural wonders that survive to this day (like the Alhambra, pictured below). Over time, cross-cultural pollination softened some of the more orthodox practices of the Muslim conquerors, later known as Moors, and they settled in as benevolent rulers of what were for the most part, an appreciative, newly enlightened people. But the ugly head of religious intolerance reared itself soon enough. Read more: http://blogcritics.org/video/article/dvd-review-when-the-moors-ruled/#ixzz1YmNcS6CI
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Muslim Heritage: alJazari's Elephant Clock
alJazari's 800 year old automatic Elephant clock using water technology. An example of the Muslim orgins of modern automation and robotics. |
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An Islamic History of Europe
(BBC Documentary 1h 28m)
An interesting history of Islam in Europe. Produced by the BBC. |
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Islam: Empire of Faith
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