Campus Watch in the Media

Moosa and the Madrassas

by Stephen Schwartz
Right Side News
May 22, 2011

http://www.rightsidenews.com/2011052213605/life-and-science/culture-wars/moosa-and-the-madrassas.html

http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/11369

At the end of a week in which U.S. military forces in Pakistan carried out the execution of Osama bin Laden and the Afghan Taliban declared that the death of "Sheikh Osama bin Laden will give a new impetus to the current jihad against the invaders in this critical phase of jihad," a stunning display of Islamist insensitivity and arrogance took place at the University of California, Berkeley. On Friday, May 6, 2011, Ebrahim Moosa, a South African Muslim and professor of Islamic Studies at Duke University in North Carolina, speaking at a UC Berkeley workshop on "Religious Norms in the Public Sphere," defended Deobandism, the madrassa-based radical ideology that inspires the Taliban.

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