Q&A: Professor participates in discussion on Quran
Asma Barlas, professor Emerita in the Ithaca College Department of Politics, participated in a community dialogue Nov. 14 over Zoom about the Quran’s teachings of marriage and the family.
Asma Barlas, professor Emerita in the Ithaca College Department of Politics, participated in a community dialogue Nov. 14 over Zoom about the Quran’s teachings of marriage and the family.
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I’m urging fellow outspoken atheists to understand that their crude approach toward religion inadvertently nurtures the sort of fundamentalism they are supposedly against.
Asma Barlas, professor in the Department of Politics at Ithaca College, went on a U.K.
In other words, is there any value in reliving these issues, something that inevitably comes with speaking out?
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With only a small number of practicing Muslim students on campus, sharing an imam would be a cost-effective solution.
Haueter said that while the Hillel sector of the college campus cannot meet with certain organizations, Hillel encourages productive, open dialogue.
Even in the secular West, where the freedom to change religions is recognized, ex-Muslims continue to fear for their lives.
In July 2016, politics professor Asma Barlas taught a seminar on Islam at St. Petersburg State University in Russia.
We must be clear that the contempt for Islam in political discourse is just that, political.