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ICCL Seminar Dissects Extremist's Call Muslim Link Staff Reporter
With headlines screaming of bloodshed from Istanbul to Cameroon to Jakarta in every newspaper, a seminar held on maintaining faith in times of extremism at the Islamic Community Center of Laurel in Laurel, Maryland on January 10, 2016 drew a large crowd. Centering around Islamic definitions of extremism and faith-based solutions, it was presented by American scholars Mufti Hussain Kamani of the Qalam Institute and Imam Mikaeel Smith of the Islamic Society of Annapolis. The seminar focused on the reasons for the extremism and what Muslims of the area should be doing to build a healthy community.
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Mufti Kamani shared that extremism rises due to exclusivity (declaring people non Muslims), decontextualizing sacred texts, and lack of suhbah (companionship) with learned scholars. “The first group of people who lead to
extremism are those who speak without knowledge. When we see someone with ibadaah, we tend to assume that the person also has attained knowledge,” said Mufti Kamani. He explained the function of a hafidh
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In Syrian Town Cut Off From the World, Glimpses of Deprivation New York Times, 1/14/16
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Nisrine kept teaching school for months as the siege tightened around the Syrian town of Madaya, but had to give up a few weeks ago when her students got too weak from starvation to walk to class. A local medic has been surviving on the rehydration
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salts he gives patients, while a business school graduate makes soup from grass for his 70-year-old father, consulting shepherds about which kinds their long-since-slaughtered flocks liked best. The people of Madaya and neighboring Zabadani have tried, since the siege by progovernment forces began in July, to keep society functioning and adjust to their surreal new set of dynamics.
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There is the black market across blockade lines, for instance, and the quiet or
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