Podcast appearances and mentions of al azhar

durée : 00:39:42 - France Culture va plus loin (l'Invité(e) des Matins) - par : Guillaume Erner, Isabelle de Gaulmyn - Après plus de deux mois de blocus humanitaire à Gaza, les Nations unies estiment que la situation de l'enclave a atteint son pire niveau depuis le début de la guerre. A quoi ressemble le quotidien de cette population ? Comment envisager son avenir ? - réalisation : Félicie Faugère - invités : Jean-Pierre Filiu Professeur des universités en histoire du Moyen-Orient contemporain; Amal Kahlout Doyenne des études supérieures à l'université d' Al-Azhar de Gaza jusqu'à ce que son université soit détruite, elle travaille aujourd'hui à l'université Sorbonne Paris Nord où elle mène un projet autour des nanotechnologies

durée : 02:36:08 - Les Matins - par : Guillaume Erner, Isabelle de Gaulmyn - - réalisation : Félicie Faugère - invités : Jean-Pierre Filiu Professeur des universités en histoire du Moyen-Orient contemporain; Yann Couderc Historien de l'armée de Terre, colonel ; Loïc Josseran Président de l'ACT-Alliance contre le tabac, médecin et chercheur en santé publique.; Amal Kahlout Doyenne des études supérieures à l'université d' Al-Azhar de Gaza jusqu'à ce que son université soit détruite, elle travaille aujourd'hui à l'université Sorbonne Paris Nord où elle mène un projet autour des nanotechnologies

The catholic world is grieving the loss of Pope Francis, but so is much of the Muslim one.Born Jorge Mario Bergoglio in Argentina, Pope Francis spent much of his life reaching out across religious lines, forming monumental friendships with Muslims, from refugee families to Islamic scholars to Palestinians.In his final Easter Sunday sermon just hours before his death, he called on the world to protect the sanctity of life in Gaza, and work towards a lasting ceasefire that saved Palestinian civilians and Israeli hostages.His voice echoed across all corners of the world, and in his death, his messages were reflected.The grand imam of Al Azhar Ahmad al Tayeb, described Pope Francis as a “true friend to Muslims, sincere in his pursuit of peace”.So how did he leave such a mark on such a divided world?This week on the Big Picture Podcast we speak with Georgetown University scholar, theologian and author Dr Jordan Denari Duffner.Dr Jordan is the author of ‘Finding Jesus Among Muslims' and the upcoming book ‘Pope Francis and Islam'.We'd love to hear your thoughts on this episode, and any guests you'd like us to have on our show. Reach us by email at mh@middleeasteye.org or find us on instagram @BigPictureMee.You can also watch all our episodes on our YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMyaP73Ho1ySj3cO0OSOHZAOgD1WTDixG

C'est demain, à Rome, qu'auront lieu les funérailles du pape François. Et parmi les hommages au souverain pontife, il y a celui d'une personnalité musulmane qui l'a rencontré il y a dix ans en Centrafrique. À l'époque, le Sénégalais Abdoulaye Bathily était le représentant spécial du secrétaire général de l'ONU en Afrique centrale. Aujourd'hui, il est l'envoyé spécial du président du Sénégal auprès du Mali, du Niger et du Burkina Faso. Quel souvenir garde-t-il du pape François ? Le professeur Bathily témoigne au micro de Christophe Boisbouvier. RFI : Pourquoi voulez-vous rendre hommage au pape François ? Abdoulaye Bathily : Eh bien, le pape François n'a pas été que le chef de l'Eglise catholique. En Afrique, il a joué un rôle très important dans certains conflits. J'ai été témoin de l'un en particulier : en novembre 2015, comme vous le savez, il a visité la République centrafricaine et le pape ne s'est pas simplement occupé de sa mission pastorale… Il a tenu à aller même jusqu'à la mosquée de Bangui, dans le quartier PK5, qui regroupait beaucoup de musulmans. Et il est resté avec nous à la mosquée. Il s'est entretenu avec les chefs religieux musulmans, avec tous les acteurs de Centrafrique. Ce geste m'a particulièrement marqué. Et il faut dire que c'est ce passage du pape qui nous a permis, vraiment, de donner une accélération au processus politique en Centrafrique, qui a abouti ? pour la première fois dans l'histoire de la Centrafrique, à l'organisation d'élections libres, démocratiques et transparentes [en décembre 2015]. Et bien entendu, je suis navré que cette œuvre du souverain pontife n'ait pas été suivie, quand je vois ce qui se passe aujourd'hui, les tentatives de troisième mandat, source encore d'instabilité pour ce pays.Donc, ce que vous avez vu à Bangui, ce n'est pas seulement un pape, c'est aussi un homme avec ses qualités ?Un homme avec ses qualités. Il a une vision œcuménique de l'humanité. Le pape François est un humaniste. Et malheureusement, quand on voit les tourments du monde actuel au moment où il quitte cette terre, il y a de quoi vraiment le regretter profondément.Regrettez-vous qu'il s'en aille au moment où arrive Donald Trump ? En tout cas, aujourd'hui, la scène internationale manque d'une voix forte, une voix morale. Le souverain pontife François a donné cet exemple et nous souhaitons que cette crise de leadership puisse être surmontée le plus rapidement possible parce que le monde est en manque de leadership. Aujourd'hui, il y a une véritable crise de leadership de qualité.Alors, dans leur document commun de 2019 pour la fraternité, le pape et le grand imam de la mosquée Al-Azhar du Caire écrivent « Le pluralisme et les diversités de religion, de couleur, de sexe, de race et de langue sont une sage volonté divine par laquelle Dieu a créé les êtres humains », sous-entendu, Dieu s'exprime à travers plusieurs religions. Vous qui êtes musulman, comment vous avez réagi à ce document ? Il n'y a pas plus sage que ces termes-là. C'est magnifique, ce qui est dit là. Et l'avenir du monde est dans ces propos. Sinon, c'est l'aventure, c'est le chaos. C'est pourquoi nous avons plus que jamais besoin d'un leadership responsable.Vous rendez donc hommage à François, le pape du dialogue… Mais vous aussi, à votre niveau, vous êtes un homme de dialogue puisque Bassirou Diomaye Faye vous a nommé l'an dernier envoyé spécial de la présidence sénégalaise auprès du Burkina Faso, du Niger et du Mali. Mais cette semaine, à Accra, au Ghana, pour les 50 ans de la Cédéao, aucun ministre de ces trois pays n'est venu. La cassure entre l'Alliance des Etats du Sahel et la Cédéao est donc manifeste. Est-ce que vous n'êtes pas découragé ? Le découragement n'est pas une option pour moi. Je suis venu justement à Accra, ici, pour remettre un message de solidarité et d'espoir. Un message qui témoigne de la volonté des deux chefs d'Etat, Bassirou Diomaye Faye du Sénégal et John Dramani Mahama du Ghana, de continuer, aux côtés de leurs autres collègues de notre région ouest-africaine, le dialogue, la négociation, la discussion pour que l'Afrique de l'Ouest soit restaurée dans sa stabilité, dans ses perspectives de développement. Voilà pourquoi je suis là aujourd'hui. Oui, mais la rupture est consommée, non ? Je ne suis pas du même avis que vous. Les peuples veulent rester ensemble. L'histoire et la géographie nous le commandent et nous y arriverons.Est-ce qu'avec les contacts que vous avez établis et qui sont solides avec Bamako, Niamey, Ouagadougou, vous avez l'espoir que d'ici le 29 juillet, la date limite, il soit possible de trouver un accord entre l'AES et la Cédéao ? L'histoire est une course de fond, ce n'est pas une course de vitesse. Je suis optimiste et les peuples de l'Afrique de l'Ouest veulent rester ensemble pour construire des espaces de paix et de solidarité.

Thank you so much. Good afternoon. I am honored to be in the timeless city of Cairo and to be hosted by two remarkable institutions. For over a thousand years, Al-Azhar has stood as a beacon of Islamic learning, and for over a century, Cairo University has been a source of Egypt's advancement. And together, you represent the harmony between tradition and progress. I'm grateful for your hospitality and the hospitality of the people of Egypt. And I'm also proud to carry with me the good will of the American people and a greeting of peace from Muslim communities in my country: As-salaamu alaykum.We meet at a time of great tension between the United States and Muslims around the world, tension rooted in historical forces that go beyond any current policy debate. The relationship between Islam and the West includes centuries of coexistence and cooperation, but also conflict and religious wars. More recently, tension has been fed by colonialism that denied rights and opportunities to many Muslims and a cold war in which Muslim-majority countries were too often treated as proxies without regard to their own aspirations. Moreover, the sweeping change brought by modernity and globalization led many Muslims to view the West as hostile to the traditions of Islam.Violent extremists have exploited these tensions in a small, but potent minority of Muslims. The attacks of September 11, 2001, and the continued efforts of these extremists to engage in violence against civilians has led some in my country to view Islam as inevitably hostile not only to America and Western countries, but also to human rights. All this has bred more fear and more mistrust.So long as our relationship is defined by our differences, we will empower those who sow hatred rather than peace, those who promote conflict rather than the cooperation that can help all of our people achieve justice and prosperity. And this cycle of suspicion and discord must end.I've come here to Cairo to seek a new beginning between the United States and Muslims around the world, one based on mutual interest and mutual respect and one based upon the truth that America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap and share common principles, principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.I do so recognizing that change cannot happen overnight. I know there's been a lot of publicity about this speech, but no single speech can eradicate years of mistrust. Nor can I answer in the time that I have this afternoon all the complex questions that brought us to this point. But I am convinced that in order to move forward, we must say openly to each other the things we hold in our hearts and that too often are said only behind closed doors. There must be a sustained effort to listen to each other, to learn from each other, to respect one another, and to seek common ground. As the Holy Koran tells us: "Be conscious of God and speak always the truth." That is what I will try to do today, to speak the truth as best I can, humbled by the task before us and firm in my belief that the interests we share as human beings are far more powerful than the forces that drive us apart.Now part of this conviction is rooted in my own experience. I'm a Christian, but my father came from a Kenyan family that includes generations of Muslims. As a boy, I spent several years in Indonesia and heard the call of the azaan at the break of dawn and at the fall of dusk. As a young man, I worked in Chicago communities where many found dignity and peace in their Muslim faith. As a student of history, I also know civilization's debt to Islam.It was Islam, at places like Al-Azhar, that carried the light of learning through so many centuries, paving the way for Europe's renaissance and enlightenment. It was innovation in Muslim communities that developed the order of algebra, our magnetic compass and tools of navigation, our mastery of pens and printing, our understanding of how disease spreads and how it can be healed. Islamic culture has given us majestic arches and soaring spires, timeless poetry and cherished music, elegant calligraphy and places of peaceful contemplation. And throughout history, Islam has demonstrated through words and deeds the possibilities of religious tolerance and racial equality.I also know that Islam has always been a part of America's story. The first nation to recognize my country was Morocco. In signing the Treaty of Tripoli in 1796, our second President, John Adams, wrote: "The United States has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquillity of Muslims." And since our founding, American Muslims have enriched the United States. They have fought in our wars; they have served in our government; they have stood for civil rights; they have started businesses; they have taught at our universities; they've excelled in our sports arenas; they've won Nobel Prizes, built our tallest building, and lit the Olympic Torch. And when the first Muslim American was recently elected to Congress, he took the oath to defend our Constitution using the same Holy Koran that one of our Founding Fathers, Thomas Jefferson, kept in his personal library.So, I have known Islam on three continents before coming to the region where it was first revealed. That experience guides my conviction that partnership between America and Islam must be based on what Islam is, not what it isn't. And I consider it part of my responsibility as President of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear.But that same principle must apply to Muslim perceptions of America. Just as Muslims do not fit a crude stereotype, America is not the crude stereotype of a self-interested empire. The United States has been one of the greatest sources of progress that the world has ever known. We were born out of revolution against an empire. We were founded upon the ideal that all are created equal, and we have shed blood and struggled for centuries to give meaning to those words, within our borders and around the world. We are shaped by every culture, drawn from every end of the Earth, and dedicated to a simple concept: E pluribus unum—"Out of many, one."Now, much has been made of the fact that an African American with the name Barack Hussein Obama could be elected President. But my personal story is not so unique. The dream of opportunity for all people has not come true for everyone in America, but its promise exists for all who come to our shores, and that includes nearly 7 million American Muslims in our country today, who, by the way, enjoy incomes and educational levels that are higher than the American average.Moreover, freedom in America is indivisible from the freedom to practice one's religion. That is why there is a mosque in every State in our Union and over 1,200 mosques within our borders. That's why the United States Government has gone to court to protect the right of women and girls to wear the hijab and to punish those who would deny it.So let there be no doubt, Islam is a part of America. And I believe that America holds within her the truth that regardless of race, religion, or station in life, all of us share common aspirations to live in peace and security, to get an education and to work with dignity, to love our families, our communities, and our God. These things we share. This is the hope of all humanity.Of course, recognizing our common humanity is only the beginning of our task. Words alone cannot meet the needs of our people. These needs will be met only if we act boldly in the years ahead and if we understand that the challenges we face are shared and our failure to meet them will hurt us all. For we have learned from recent experience that when a financial system weakens in one country, prosperity is hurt everywhere. When a new flu infects one human being, all are at risk. When one nation pursues a nuclear weapon, the risk of nuclear attack rises for all nations. When violent extremists operate in one stretch of mountains, people are endangered across an ocean. When innocents in Bosnia and Darfur are slaughtered, that is a stain on our collective conscience. That is what it means to share this world in the 21st century. That is the responsibility we have to one another as human beings.And this is a difficult responsibility to embrace, for human history has often been a record of nations and tribes and, yes, religions subjugating one another in pursuit of their own interests. Yet in this new age, such attitudes are self-defeating. Given our interdependence, any world order that elevates one nation or group of people over another will inevitably fail. So whatever we think of the past, we must not be prisoners to it. Our problems must be dealt with through partnership; our progress must be shared.Now, that does not mean we should ignore sources of tension. Indeed, it suggests the opposite. We must face these tensions squarely. And so in that spirit, let me speak as clearly and as plainly as I can about some specific issues that I believe we must finally confront together.The first issue that we have to confront is violent extremism in all of its forms. In Ankara, I made clear that America is not, and never will be, at war with Islam. We will, however, relentlessly confront violent extremists who pose a grave threat to our security, because we reject the same thing that people of all faiths reject: the killing of innocent men, women, and children. And it is my first duty as President to protect the American people.The situation in Afghanistan demonstrates America's goals and our need to work together. Over 7 years ago, the United States pursued Al Qaida and the Taliban with broad international support. We did not go by choice; we went because of necessity. I'm aware that there's still some who would question or even justify the events of 9/11. But let us be clear: Al Qaida killed

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The Papal Visit In early September, Pope Francis visited Indonesia as part of a tour of the region. It was the third papal visit to the country after tours by Pope Paul VI in 1970 and Pope John Paul II in 1989. This trip included Indonesia, Timor Leste, Papua New Guinea and Singapore. The theme of this visit to the world's largest Muslim nation was ‘Faith, Fraternity and Compassion' and appeared to build on an earlier visit to the United Arab Emirates in 2019. On that trip the Pope and the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar co-signed a statement known as the Abu Dhabi document, in which they declared a shared commitment to promote reconciliation, fraternity and with the aim of universal peace. The three-day visit to Jakarta was declared a success by the Vatican and Indonesian observers alike, with the Pope highlighting and praising Indonesia's commitment to interfaith harmony. So, what was the aim of this papal tour for the Vatican and the Catholic Church in Indonesia? What were the Pope's key messages and how was he received? And what lingering influences might this visit have for this minority religion of 9 million people, but also for society more broadly? In this week's episode Jemma chats with Bagus Laksana, the Rector of Sanata Dharma University in Yogyakarta. He is author of 'Muslim and Catholic Pilgrimage Practices: Explorations Through Java' (Routledge, 2016). In 2024, the Talking Indonesia podcast is co-hosted by Dr Jemma Purdey from the Australia-Indonesia Centre, Dr Jacqui Baker from Murdoch University, Dr Elisabeth Kramer from the University of New South Wales and Tito Ambyo from RMIT. Image: IG @archbishopcomensoli

Interview with Muhammad Nachar to discuss his joining the Al-Azhar program and the importance of this program in producing youth who can speak Arabic, read the Holy Quran, and learn the rules of Tajweed.

Imagine: Elon Musk's tweet causes a cryptocurrency frenzy. Kim Kardashian's outfit becomes an overnight fashion sensation. Daron Acemoglu and colleagues' paper on settler mortality reshapes economic thinking. The Pope's words influence millions globally. What links these diverse events? They're all powerful manifestations of prestige bias. Psychologically, we seek guidance from those who've achieved success, looking to emulate their paths to prosperity and social approval. This creates a dynamic where the accomplished influence others, often reinforcing their own status in the process. From NBER's Summer Institute to the glitz of Hollywood, prestige bias permeates every sphere of human endeavour. However, its impact is perhaps most profound and far-reaching in the realm of religion. Join me on a journey to the heart of the Muslim world, where we'll explore the influence of Cairo's Al-Azhar - a beacon of Islamic scholarship whose teachings reverberate globally. Through this lens, we'll uncover how prestige bias shapes not just individual choices, but entire cultural paradigms.

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Did you know that not only is each verse and chapter of the Quran a miracle, but the order of the Surahs is also miraculous? Watch and listen as Shaikh Al-Shawari from Al-Azhar explains in the Tafsir of Aya 189 of Surah Al Imran.

Show Notes and Transcript The current Israeli-Gaza war has sparked much debate focussing on geo politics and historical land disputes.  But few dare ask if Islam is the root cause of the ongoing tension.  Robert Spencer has studied Islam for 3 decades. His dozens of books and the Jihad Watch website are all go to sources of background information on Islam and the history behind it.  He returns to Hearts of Oak to ask if this is a religious problem and we start by looking at what Islam actually says about the Jews.  The aggression and vitriol throughout Islamic text and the history of behaviour towards the Jewish people is an eye opener to all of us.  Armed with this deeper understanding Robert then touches on how the term Palestinian was invented. The history, leader, flag and culture had to be invented as it was all non existent before.  His short book "The Palestinian Delusion" goes into much more detail and is a recommended read.  Enjoy the interview and get ready to see this current conflict in a whole new light. 'The Palestinian Delusion: The Catastrophic History of the Middle East Peace Process' on Amazon https://amzn.eu/d/cPigAab Robert Spencer is the director of Jihad Watch and a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. He is the author of twenty-seven books, including the New York Times bestsellers The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam, The Truth About Muhammad and the bestsellers The History of Jihad From Muhammad to ISIS and The Critical Qur'an: Explained from Key Islamic Commentaries and Contemporary Historical Research. His new book is Empire of God: How the Byzantines Saved Civilization. Spencer has led seminars on Islam and jihad for the FBI, the United States Central Command, United States Army Command and General Staff College, the U.S. Army's Asymmetric Warfare Group, the Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF), the Justice Department's Anti-Terrorism Advisory Council and the U.S. intelligence community. He has discussed jihad, Islam, and terrorism at a workshop sponsored by the U.S. State Department and the German Foreign Ministry. He is a senior fellow with the Center for Security Policy. Connect with Robert and Jihad Watch... X                                x.com/jihadwatchRS  @jihadwatchRS WEBSITE                   jihadwatch.org/ Interview recorded  26.3.24 Connect with Hearts of Oak... WEBSITE            heartsofoak.org/ PODCASTS        heartsofoak.podbean.com/ SOCIAL MEDIA   heartsofoak.org/connect/  SHOP                  heartsofoak.org/shop/ TRANSCRIPT (Hearts of Oak) It's wonderful to have Robert Spencer back with us again. Robert, thank you so much for your time today. (Robert Spencer) Always good to talk to you, Peter. Thank you. Great to have you on. Always good to have guests on talking about their books. We'll get into a book that I've been delving into and got a couple of months ago, but only picked it up recently and have read it. We'll get into that in a moment. But obviously, you can find Robert: that is his Twitter handle, @jihadwatchRS. And obviously jihadwatch.org is the website. You can find everything in the links below. Make sure and use it. Make sure and sign up to it. One of the latest, I think the latest piece on that, and we're doing this just two days before the video goes out, is the U.S. Supreme Court gives Hamas-linked CAIRE a 9-0 thumbs up. And CAIR obviously is the Council on American Islamic Relations. I encourage you to delve into that, which gives some of the geopolitics, I guess, that lies behind some of the difficulties that the U.S. Faces as it engages and grapples and understands Islam, which is a massive subject. But the book that I've been delving into and enjoying is The Palestinian Delusion. Short book, 200 pages. And if you want to understand what is happening at the moment in the Middle East, I would encourage you to get a hold of a copy. Available US, UK, wherever you are. The links are in the description. Grab it. And I know you'll want to get it after this interview. But , I do want to get into modern day; what is happening? But right at the beginning, chapter two; chapter one is about the formation of Israel. If we just go on to chapter two, does religion, specifically Islam, lie at the root of the problem? What are your thoughts, Robert? And of course, you delve into this in chapter two. Yeah, absolutely, Peter. Islam is what the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is all about. If you look at the messages from Hamas, from Palestinian Islamic Jihad, from Fatah, from the Palestinian Authority itself, they are all about Islam all the time. Yet that is the one aspect of this conflict that is universally ignored by policy analysts and by policymakers in the West. Every attempt at a negotiated settlement initiated by the President of the United States or any other entity over the last 50 years has completely ignored, 100% ignored, Islam as a factor in this conflict. And yet, from the standpoint of the Palestinian Arabs, that's what it is all about, and we ignore it to our own detriment. Now, chapter two is entitled The Roots of the hatred of Israel. Hatred is a very strong word, Robert, is it not? Yes, but it's entirely accurate in this case, because what we are dealing with is not only a hatred, but what has been termed the longest hatred, that is the hatred of the Jews, which of course is not solely the province of Muslims or Islam, but, many people in the West don't realize that there even is such a thing as Islamic anti-Semitism. Yet, it is very real and it is at the roots of the problem between Israel and the Palestinian Arabs today. Now, we all hear the term Islam being one of the great Abrahamic religions, and yet there doesn't seem to be a lot of love for the Jews in Islam in the text and the history. Do you want to just let us know; because that is a different side that many people will certainly not hear in the legacy media. Yes. Islam, the Quran teaches that Islam is the third revelation after the revelation of the Torah and the Gospel. That is the core scriptures of the Jews and the Christians, and that it confirms the message of the Torah and the Gospel. And that Moses and Abraham before him, and Jesus after him, and all the other prophets in the Bible, in both the Jewish and the Christian scriptures, are people who taught Islam. Islam was the original religion of all the prophets. We can see this particularly in chapter 3, verse 67 of the Quran, which says Abraham was not a Jew or a Christian. He was a Muslim. And you might wonder, well, this doesn't make any sense. How could Abraham be a Muslim when Muhammad is the originator of Islam in the 7th century and Abraham is many, many centuries before that? The Islamic answer is that Islam is the original religion of all the prophets and that it was their followers who twisted their teachings to create Judaism and Christianity. The only legitimate expression of the true teachings of the prophets is Islam. And that being the case, the orthodox mainstream understanding among Muslims of Judaism and Christianity is that they have no legitimacy at all. Now, this is a very important point because, then the Quran commands Muslims to fight against and subjugate the Jews and Christians, among others. And it's in part because of their rejecting the true faith and corrupting their scriptures, although that part comes from Islamic tradition. Now, the difficulty that people have with this arises from the fact that Islamic spokesmen in the West very deceptively, frequently, refer to how much they as Muslims revere and respect figures such as Abraham and Moses and Jesus himself himself. And so Jews and Christians who are uninformed about Islam hear this and they think, isn't that wonderful? How generous and open-minded and ecumenical they are. And we should do the same. We should reciprocate by acknowledging Muhammad as a prophet. And they don't realize that the Muslims do revere and respect Abraham and Moses and Jesus and the rest of them, but as Muslims, not as they are portrayed in Judaism and Christianity. I mean, everything seems to be on the terms of Islam. I knew your book: Did Muhammad Exist? Actually, I think we need to remind ourselves of the world that Muhammad, if he did exist, was born into, which wasn't an Islamic world as we know today. It was a very different world. Yes. North Africa, the Middle East, what we think of today as the heart of the Islamic world, those were Christian lands. They were 99% Christian from Morocco all the way across North Africa and throughout the Middle East. And so it was the conquest initiated by the Arabs beginning in the 630s that ultimately led to the Islamization of those various nations and the steady diminishment of the Christian population. But, it's important to keep in mind, Peter, that the Christian population did not decline because the Christians were gradually convinced of the truth and beauty of Islam. Rather, they were subjugated, as the Quran directs, under the hegemony of Islamic law and denied basic rights in the societies that had been conquered. And the only thing they had to do to free themselves from the oppression of living with this denial of rights was to convert to Islam. And so many people did over the centuries, such that, for example, Egypt was 99% Christian when the Arabs invaded, and now it's about 10% Christian. The Christians didn't all leave. They just converted to Islam over time, because of the pressure placed on non-Muslims. Well, maybe as the world talks about repatriations, especially in the BLM movement, maybe Christians need to get some of that from Egypt. Yes. If there were real reparations for slavery and for oppression, then yes, the Christian population of the entire Middle East and North Africa would be owed an immense amount of money. But nobody's talking about that. I guess we hear the term anti-Semitism and we're told that any feeling of anti-Semitism from Islam is purely misplaced and doesn't lie at the heart of it and this seems to be this distinction between kind of rogue Islamic preachers, but actually key text and that seems, I think commentators seem to want to make a wide gap between that. Yet, as you point out, this term anti-Semitism, it lies right at the basis of Islam from 1300, 1400 years ago. Yes, absolutely. The Qur'an says in chapter 5, verse 82, that the people who are most intense in hostility to the believers will be the Jews, as well as the polytheists. Now, what this works out to in practice is that the Jews are the recipients of the most hostility from the Muslims. This is also because this is not an isolated passage, but the Quran is full of passages depicting the Jews in a negative light, depicting them as schemers who plot against the plans of Allah himself and try to foil them. Who crow about the limits on the power of Allah, saying Allah's hand is chained. That's chapter 5, verse 64. They were transformed into apes and pigs by Allah for their disobedience. That's chapter 2, verses 62 to 66, rather. Chapter 5, 59 and 60, and 7, 166. and many, many, other passages all the way through the Quran depict the Jews as being rebellious against Allah and essentially enemies of Allah. Then the Islamic tradition is even worse and the Jews are depicted as plotting against Muhammad, trying to kill Muhammad, being massacred by Muhammad and punishment for their plots to kill him. Jewish woman poisons Muhammad and this ultimately leads to his death and so on. They're the real villains of the entire tradition. And this carries through to the modern age where Judaism and Jews are so stigmatized in the Islamic world that several ex-Muslims have spoken about moving to America or moving to Europe and encountering actual Jews for the first time and being shocked that they were not evil, horned creatures, devils in human form, trying to disrupt human society in every way, but just ordinary people like everybody else, some good, some bad. And they had no frame of reference to understand this, because Islam is so unanimous and monochromatic in depicting them as evil. I think if someone is watching this as a Christian, they will understand the Bible as the text that they live by, which is full of stories, explains things, not really chronological, but actually, you can read it and you can grasp a lot of its meaning. And that stands by itself outside the Christian traditions, really. Islam seems to be quite different. It seems to be not not only is the Qur'an actually impossible to understand, but actually seemingly is only supposedly, understandable. With a wealth of other writings, which seems to confuse things massively for anyone coming from a Christian background or from the West. That's right, Peter. The Qur'an in the first place is written, in many cases it tells the stories that it tells. In a way that makes it clear that it assumes that the hearers have heard them before and are familiar with the general outlines of the story. So, it leaves out important aspects of the stories, and many times it is speaking about incidents, and events, and not explaining what incident or event is involved. It's as if you were talking to a friend and I walked up and I didn't know either of you very well and didn't know what you what incidents you were talking about, and you didn't pause to explain it to me. I would have no idea what you're what you're discussing, and that's what reading the Quran is like in many ways. So, you have the voluminous hadith literature: hadith means report and it's the reports of Mohammed's words and deeds. In the hadith literature you find what is known as the Asbab al-Nuzul which is the circumstances of revelation that tells the stories of what was going on at the time among the early Muslims. And Muhammad that led to the revelation of this or that passage of the Quran. And that's all very well, but this material comes from a couple of hundred years after Muhammad is supposed to have lived. And there's no trace of it existing before that. And so, it's an open question as to whether these things really give the circumstances of revelation and the Quran passage follows from that, or if these stories were put together in order to explain what is essentially a gnomic, elliptical, incoherent text. And that seems, the latter seems to be more likely. Some philologists like Christoph Luxemburg have noted that if you strip out the diacritical marks that distinguish many Arabic letters from each other, because there are 22 letters in the Arabic alphabet, but 16 are exactly the same character, just with different combinations of dots above or below. And so if you take out the dots and repoint it as if it were Aramaic, then suddenly it's a whole different text and a Christian text in many cases. And so, Luxembourg contends that it was actually a Christian text that was repurposed by the early Arab conquerors in order to create the religion of Islam. And they did this because this is actually the fundamental thesis of my own book: Did Muhammad Exist? They did this because in those days, religions were what cemented political unity. There were no parliaments or constitutions in this era when Islam arose. And you had two great powers in this region, the Byzantine Empire, which was Christian, and the Persian Empire, which was Zoroastrian. They were held together by those religions. The idea was that to be a Roman citizen at this time, a citizen of the Byzantine Empire, meant that one was a Christian and adhered to the tenets of Orthodox Christianity. Consequently, the non-Christians were not considered to be fully citizens of the empire. And this is another story, but it was the Christian identity that was the cement that held the empire together. So, the Arabs amassed a great empire, conquering massive expanses of territory, and then they developed a religion to hold it all together. And because these were warriors who wanted to expand and defend and strengthen their empire, they made their religion belligerent, aggressive, martial, warlike, expansionist, and so on. I think in chapter two, you talk about that we all know of Muslims praying to Mecca, and only then Allah can really hear the prayers properly. But you talk in the book about initially it was facing towards Jerusalem. So, was this just Muhammad wanting to be accepted? and then later on, of course, or at that time, Muhammad wanting to be a prophet. Kind of, in my thinking, that's sheer arrogance, thinking you can be a prophet to a religion you come across. Those concepts of him wanting to be a Jewish prophet, but also praying towards Jerusalem, those are two facts that seem to be missing in any dialogue today. Yes, well, it does seem as if, at least according to the canonical traditional Islamic story; that is of questionable historical value. But there's no doubt that Muslims believe it; that Muhammad taught that he was a new prophet in the line of the prophets of the Bible. And that consequently he was the new prophet of the Jews and a new prophet of the Christians. And both groups said, you're not. The Jews said, you're not Jewish. You can't be a Jewish prophet. And the Christians said, Jesus said: it is finished on the cross. We're not looking for a new prophet. And so he was rejected by both. And this has led to the kind of cognitive dissonance that the Quran says that the Jews and Christians, the Christians in particular in chapter five of the Quran will be rightly guided if they follow the gospel. And yet the Gospel does not confirm the teachings of the Qur'an as the Qur'an insists, and it insists that it confirms the teachings of the Torah also. And so Islamic spokesmen, Islamic scholars throughout the ages have accounted for this discrepancy by claiming that the Jews and Christians corrupted their scriptures. And so, they maintain that Muhammad is indeed a prophet in the line of the biblical prophets, but that it's the Jews and Christians' fault for not recognizing him. They twisted their scriptures to erase the congruence so, that people would not see that the Quran confirms the Torah and the gospel. A s a result, the Jews and Christians are portrayed as these incredible renegades and rebels against God who have dared to tamper with the very word of God that he gave them, and created false religions of their own making. And so here again, they have no legitimacy. I do want to get on to current day but, I want to there there's another concept that comes out in your book which is a widely misunderstood word and that's the word jihad, and we are told jihad is inner struggle. It's a spiritual struggle between yourself trying to be right and to be good and live correctly. Yet, jihad is a term that's used in violence all across the world. What is this term, jihad? The primary understanding of jihad in Islamic theology is warfare against unbelievers in order to bring them under the hegemony of Islamic law. The confusion arises from the fact that jihad means struggle, and there are as many things that are referred to as struggles in Arabic as there are in English. And so you can have great struggles and small struggles. You can struggle to be on time for appointments when you're chronically late, but you can also have a great struggle between civilizations, such as World War II or something. Now, in the Islamic realm, it's the same thing. The Islamic Republic of Iran has a department of agricultural jihad, which doesn't involve blowing things up on farms. It involves trying to struggle to increase the efficiency of the farms and their fruitfulness. Whereas in Islamic theology, the principal meaning of jihad has to do with this warfare against unbelievers. So, here again, Islamic spokesmen in the West frequently confuse people. They're trying to confuse them and make them complacent about the jihad threat by saying jihad just means struggle. And it's about struggling to better yourself. And they don't tell you that Muhammad said the warfare against unbelievers is the highest understanding of jihad, that there's nothing greater than jihad in which one loses one's life and then is rewarded with paradise. In the book, you use a number of examples of what we would call hit preachers. This is in 45, the Hamas deputy minister of religious endowments on Al-Aqsa TV 2010 said: the Jews suffer from a mental disorder because they are thieves and aggressors. A thief or aggressor who took land or property develops a psychological disorder and pangs of conscience because he took someone that wasn't his. And then the next page, you have a from 2018, a program on Palestinian Authority television saying people could be deluded or think that they have no way out with the Jews. The liberation of this land is a matter of faith, which will happen despite everyone. And then the next page up, the Jews are treacherous and conniving cheaters. But again, the argument, many of the guests I have on would not look at Islam as an issue, as a problem. And they would simply say those are misguided, radical preachers, and they don't understand the true, beautiful nature of Islam. How do you speak against that criticism, I guess, that you're maybe picking things out and you're looking at these preachers that actually don't understand Islam, really? Well, in the first place, I find it difficult to believe that people who have committed their lives to understanding Islam correctly would not understand it correctly. While non-Muslims who've never picked up a Quran or have any idea what it says, they understand it perfectly well. Islam is kind of funny in that way that the more you know about it, the less you understand it. And the less you know about it, the more you understand it. We see this with non-Muslim politicians all over the West who assure us with immense confidence that Islam is a religion of peace that has nothing whatsoever to do with terrorism. Those are actually the exact words from Hillary Clinton a few years back, but many, many other politicians say exactly the same thing. And I know that Hillary Clinton doesn't have the first foggiest idea of what the Koran teaches, whereas I, who have read the Koran dozens and dozens of times, committed a great deal of it to memory. Published a translation and commentary of it that's my own, and have studied Islamic theology for 40 years, now. They would say, well, you don't understand Islam at all. And even more to the point, these Muslim clerics who've attended Al-Azhar or other prestigious Islamic institutions and and spend their whole lives trying to understand the Quran and the Islam properly, and they don't get it at all. So, in the first place, it's absurd. But in the second place, what these people said that you quoted, like the fellow who said the Jews are treacherous, conniving, cheaters, that's just Quranic theology. If you read what the Quran says about the Jews, just get a Quran, don't even read the whole thing. Get one with a good index and read all the passages about the Jews. And you will see that every last one of them is negative. Every last one of them portrays the Jews as scheming and conniving and cheating the righteous people. And so this is the prism through which these clerics see the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. They understand it through the lens of the Qur'an, because they believe that the Qur'an is the perfect word of the perfect being that is valid for all times and all places in all situations. They see the world today and they see Israel and the Palestinians. And the first place they will go to understand all that is the Quran, because they would trust Allah over any human authority, telling them what the conflict is all about. The Quran tells them over and over that the Jews are evil and enemies of Allah. So, they see Israel and they think, here are the evil Jews who are enemies of Allah. Even, the fact that they refer to Jews and not to Israelis or to Zionists or some other term of that kind indicates that they're seeing this through theological principles. And those theological principles are deeply anti-Semitic. Well, bringing us up to the present day, for over 2,000 years, the Jews did not have their homeland there in the land that is Israel. And it was under all different, we'll not go into the history, all different, I guess, occupying forces or other forces. And then 1948 happens and the Jewish homeland, modern day Israel, is founded again. And immediately, and this is chapter three, you talk about the jihad of 1948,which is an interesting term. Why that title? Well, the whole thing is a jihad from 1948, from before 1948, when the Zionist settlement began in the late 19th century. Even before that, because there there were always Jews in the Holy Land, and they were always subject to sporadic, periodic attacks. Now, after the Zionism began, these attacks intensify because in the first place, the Ottomans were alarmed when they owned the land that the Jews were moving in, because they thought that it would threaten their hegemony over it. Then when the Ottoman Empire fell, the League of Nations, the precursor to the United Nations, gave Britain the mandate for Palestine to establish a Jewish national home. Now, why did the Arabs object to a Jewish national home? There were already large Arab states right there neighboring this territory. And so it should have been and could have been. A relatively peaceful and orderly process once the Jewish national home was actually founded. After World War II, Germany lost massive territories in the East because it fought a war of aggression and lost. And for reasons of national security, the Poles, the Soviets, and the French in the West took various territories from the Germans. The Germans who who lived in those areas, were sent to what remained of Germany. Nobody complained. Nobody raises, nowadays, some right of return or speaks about occupied German territory in Poland and Russia. It would be absurd even to think about. But it's the exact same situation with Israel. The Arabs of Lebanon, of Syria, and of Jordan are identical ethnically, culturally, linguistically, and religiously with the Palestinian Arabs. There has never been a distinct Palestinian nationality. That's a propaganda creation that was designed to be a weapon to use against Israel. So, when you have Arabs who leave, they did not actually get kicked out. They left because the Arab League told them to leave in 1948, because the Arab states neighboring Israel were going to crush it within weeks. Then they would be out of the line of fire and could return home after Israel was destroyed. It didn't work that way, because Israel actually turned out to win the war. The Arab states, after that happened, could have easily absorbed these populations. And there would be no problem today, just like there's no problem in Europe today, in regard to the German refugees after World War II. And yet they did not do that because they they wanted to keep the Palestinian refugees as stateless, as refugees, as a weapon to beat Israel with. This is what became the linchpin for what I referred to as the Jihad of 1948. The Jihad, because the Quran says in chapter 2, verse 191: drive them out from where they drove you out. It's a myth, as I just noted, it's a myth that the the Israelis drove the Arabs out. It's not a fact, but it's what the Arabs all over the Middle East and the non-Arab Muslims are taught about what happened. So, that is because it triggers the divine command, drive them out from where they drove you out. They have to have been driven out for that to kick in as being applicable. So, now millions of Muslims, Arab and non-Arab, are taught that they must drive out the Israelis, because the Muslims were driven out. It's a divine command, no less than the Ten Commandments for Christians. Consequently, it is a jihad because if it were not for these religious principles that are rooted in Islam and the Quran, the problem would have been solved by negotiations decades ago. But no negotiated settlement ever succeeds, because you don't negotiate away divine commandments. Well, that negotiated settlement, two-term, two-state solution is the phrase that comes up, and you touch on that in that chapter. And we're told this is the way to fix all the problems, if only we can come up with this mythical two-state solution. Why is that then not the solution to the issue that the world faces in the Middle East? A two-state solution would require two states. That requires at least ostensibly that the Arabs have to acknowledge that a Jewish state of some size has a right to exist there and they will never accept that, because the divine command has driven them out from where they drove you out. That does not admit of half measures. It might admit of partial fulfilment that they take over half of Israel and then the other half later. But it doesn't allow for the recognition of the right to exist of any non-Muslim entity on that land. Consequently, the Jewish state could be the size of my office here. The Jewish state could be the size of a postage stamp, and it would not be acceptable, because they have have to drive them out from where they drove you out without any exceptions. The negotiation, the two-state solution would quickly become, or even eventually, even slowly become, a one-state solution. The Palestinian state would make war against what's left of Israel and ultimately destroy it. There would never be two states in that land on an indefinite basis. In your book, one of the chapters talks about the naivety of Carter. Seemingly, every U.S. president has accepted this. Even Trump has accepted; has stated that actually he sees that as the best solution. Is that simply an absolute misunderstanding that this is a religious ideology that lies at the root of all this? Yeah, absolutely. It's because nobody in Washington knows or wants to know about the power and influence of Islam over political issues. They underestimated and misunderstood Khomeini when it was the time of the Islamic Revolution in Iran in 1979. And since 1948, they have misunderstood the Israeli-Arab conflict, because they don't understand Islam. They routinely discount it as having anything to do with this conflict. And yet, it's right there in the Hamas charter. Israel will arise and will remain until Islam obliterates it. Islam obliterates it. And yet, no policymaker, no president, not Carter, not any of the others. Not Trump. None of them have ever pondered. What does that mean until Islam obliterates it? How can Islam obliterate a country? That doesn't even make any sense to the policymakers in Washington, because they think of Islam solely as a religion, and they think of it because they come from Judeo-Christian backgrounds. The way Christianity operates in the West. They assume it's like that, and so, they have no idea of its political, aggressive, expansionist, and supremacist aspects. In chapter four, you say the Palestinians are invented. That's a very strong statement. Surely, we've had the land of Palestine back in the Roman era. That's surely 2,000 years old. So, there must be all this history and people: the Palestinians. Well, I'll tell you, Peter, you're right, and yet not. And I know you know. It's true. The Romans renamed the land of Judea, that is, land of the Jews. They renamed Judea Palestine in 134 AD. And they officially expelled the Jews from the area, although many of them stayed all the way through to the modern age. Now, Palestine was a name they had taken from the Bible, from the Philistines, the ancient enemies of the Israelites, in the Jewish scriptures. And they named it Palestine. They named Judea Palestine as a yet another taunt against the Jews as they were expelling them from the region. They renamed the region against their extinct enemies. But, there were never any Palestinians. And I would ask you, you know. You can find on YouTube, for example, the men on the street interviews, and people are even Palestinians are asked, name a famous Palestinian from history. And they all say Yasser Arafat. Okay, name another. If they were Palestinian since 134 AD, then, okay, name one. Give us one from the second century or the fifth or the 10th or the 15th or the 19th. There weren't any. It was the name of a region. It's like Los Angeles. Los Angeles is a city in the United States. And there are citizens of Los Angeles, but if we start talking about a distinct Los Angeles nationality that deserves its own state, people would laugh. It's the name of the city. And Palestine was the name of this region, but there were never any Palestinians. It was just the name of a place. The idea that it's a distinct nationality was invented by Arafat and the KGB in 1964. And they did it as a propaganda weapon because the whole world in those days was sympathetic to Israel. The Israelis, because they had faced off and defeated massive nations. Arab and non-Arab Muslim nations, and had stood against them even though they were vastly outnumbered and outgunned. They gained the sympathy of the entire world. And so, the KGB in Arafat in 1964 renamed the Palestine Liberation Organization, the PLO, the Palestinian Liberation Organization. Very small change and nobody even noticed, but it was a momentous change, because it indicated for the first time in history that there was a people called Palestinians. And now the whole world accepts it and takes it for granted, but this is an invented nationality that was designed to create an even tinier people that was menaced by the massive Israeli war machine. And that would take the wind out of the sails of Israel, the tiny underdog Jewish state facing off against these massive Arab states. And it's worked very well. Even the Israelis have admitted or accepted the existence of Palestinians as a distinct nationality when there has never been such a people in history. You can go to 1948. Go to the library, read the newspapers from the day. Read the United Nations deliberations when they offered the Arabs half of the area of Israel. We're going to establish yet another Arab state and a Jewish state. And the Arabs said no, because they wouldn't accept a Jewish state of any size. Nobody ever mentions Palestinians. It's funny, because they're the center of the conflict now. And yet, in those days, it was the Israeli-Arab conflict. There was not a single mention anywhere of Palestinians. I mean, Islam does seem to have a trend of rewriting history. And in the book you talk about a number of statements and articles referring to Jesus as a Palestinian. That would be news to Jesus, because I'm sure I read in my Bible that he was Jewish. Yeah, well, obviously this is another propaganda point that's designed to curry favour among non-Muslims with the Palestinians. Even from a historical standpoint, Jesus was not a Palestinian because it wasn't until a hundred years after Jesus that the Romans renamed the area of Judea Palestine. The Gospels are very clear. Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea. That Galilee was right there next to Judea, where he grew up in Nazareth. And he says salvation is from the Jews. A very ignored statement of his. This is very clearly someone who was operating within a Jewish framework, a Jewish culture surrounded by Jews. And even the theology of Christianity is based on the theology of Judaism, that the temple Judaism before the destruction of the temple in 70 AD was based on animal sacrifices for atonement for sins. And then Jesus is presented as being, as God become man, the eternal sacrifice and the perfect atonement for sins that opens the way of heaven for the people. This is something that really doesn't even make any sense apart from Judaism. And I think Christians nowadays are getting very carried away in this Christ is King controversy that's been going on in regard to Candace Owens and the Daily Wire and so on. It risks ignoring or denying the Jewish roots of Christianity and the fundamental kinship that Judaism and Christianity actually have, despite the undeniable antagonism and the Christian anti-Semitism that was certainly operative in Europe for centuries. Well, you're right. Without Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and all the stories of the Old Testament, God's promised there would be no New Testament and Jesus would not be there. 100%, Robert. Just to finish off with, the last chapter is what is to be done. And it seems from this discussion that what the conflict that we see at the moment between the Palestinians in Gaza and the Israelis is just part of the wider issue of Jews and Muslims, of Islam and Judaism. So, when you say what is to be done, how do you see looking ahead? Well, looking ahead, it doesn't look good, because the American government, which is essentially the principal, if not the sole ally of the Jewish state, is betraying Israel because the Biden regime is very afraid that it's going to lose the Muslim vote, which could lose it several swing states in the November election. And end up with Biden being defeated for re-election. So, they've decided to betray Israel as a result. They're pressing for a Palestinian state. If a Palestinian state were founded, that would, as I discussed earlier, become a new jihad base for renewed attacks against what's left of Israel. They don't seem to know or care that if Israel is destroyed, then the jihadis all around the world will be emboldened like never before, and will step up their attacks in Europe and the United States. This is what we're looking at in the future unless Israel is able to destroy Hamas despite the international pressure to get it to surrender and by surrender. I mean accept a ceasefire that would allow Hamas to live and if Israel can do that then all bets are off and the post-war picture will be radically different. But right now it looks like it's going to be very tough times ahead head, both for Israel and for the West. Well, I would encourage people to get: The Passing Delusion. It's a great book and will help explain what is happening. And of course, Robert's latest book is: The Empire of God, How the Byzantines Saved Civilization. A wonderful endorsement by Victor Davis Hanson. So, if you're not sure about Robert, go to Victor David Hanson. Robert, really appreciate you coming along. Love your work over the many decades with Jihad Watch, certainly one of my go-to places on the geopolitics and deeper. Thank you so much for your time today. Thank you. Pleasure.

Parvez and Omar are honored to be joined by Shaykh Jamaal Diwan, co-founder and Resident Scholar at The Majlis. This was a wide-ranging conversation with Shaykh Jamaal discussing his personal journey connecting with his faith, his studies at Al-Azhar University, and the principles underlying The Majlis. Beyond his personal journey the conversation touches on parenting, the challenges of nurturing a sense of community in the United States, a "cultural topography" of Southern California, and much more. This is an excellent companion episode to Episode 131 with his wife Shaykha Muslema Purmul, co-founder and Religious Director at The Majlis.       About Shaykh Jamaal Diwan Shaykh Jamaal Diwan was born and raised in Southern California to parents from Newfoundland and Pakistan. He accepted Islam in 2003 while at UCSD. After getting married and graduating from UCSD in Third World Studies, he and his wife moved to Egypt to study Arabic and Islamic Studies. He stayed there for the better part of the next seven years finishing an undergraduate degree in Sharia from al-Azhar. During that time he also completed two years of graduate work in Islamic Studies from the American University in Cairo. In addition to his formal studies he has also obtained ijazat (traditional licenses to transmit and teach) in various branches of Islamic Studies such as aqidah, fiqh, tazkiyah, and hadith. Upon returning from Egypt in 2011 he has served as a religious teacher and instructor in Southern California in various capacities such as Resident Scholar, University Chaplain, and Islamic Studies teacher. He cofounded The Majlis with his wife, Shaykha Muslema Purmul. The Majlis seeks to nurture safe community spaces where people can learn and live Islam, based on the traditional sources of understanding the faith, while acknowledging the particular challenges of the American context. It focuses its efforts on religious education, spiritual refinement, love, and service. He is a father of two, residing in Southern California with his family.  

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Del 2 al 8 de febrero se ha celebrado internacionalmente una semana de movilización y oración contra la trata de personas. En su mensaje para cerrar la jornada el 8 de febrero, el Papa animó a promover iniciativas que acaben con la lacra de la trata. Con motivo del próximo Congreso Eucarístico Internacional, que se celebrará en Quito en septiembre de este año, Omnes ha entrevistado a monseñor Alfredo José Espinoza Mateus. Natural de Guayaquil, fue ordenado sacerdote en 1988 y actualmente es arzobispo de Quito y primado de Ecuador. La entrevista completa está disponible en www.omnesmag.com El Papa ha publicado una carta dirigida a los “hermanos judíos de Israel”. En ella, Francisco recuerda la relación tan estrecha que existe entre católicos y judíos. Abu Dabi, capital de los Emiratos Árabes Unidos, y otras capitales, como Madrid, han acogido estos días actos conmemorativos de la firma por el Papa Francisco y el Gran Imán de Al Azhar, Ahmed Al-Tayyeb, del histórico Documento sobre la Fraternidad Humana, por la Paz Mundial y la Convivencia Común el 4 de febrero de 2019.

“When you commit to a journey, the universe conspires to help you.“ In a surprise zoom call with student Mamadou Barry, Will Smith quoted those words from Paulo Coelho's novel 'The Alchemist'. That story is about a boy who goes on a journey across north Africa to Egypt when he dreams of gold. In a case of real life mirroring fiction, Mamadou also gave up his normal life to undertake a long journey across northern Africa. But his dream was of studying at the Al-Azhar university in Cairo, Egypt. When he realised he couldn't raise enough money for a flight, Mamadou decided he'd simply cycle there, and so he began a journey that was to take him four months and thousands of miles through Mali, Burkina Faso, Togo, Benin, Niger and Chad. His amazing bike ride caught the attention of strangers - who helped him to his end goal - and eventually of Will Smith who sent him a bike, a laptop and flight vouchers in Egypt to help him get back home to Guinea to visit his family.In this edition of the Africa Daily podcast, Peter Musembi speaks to Mamadou about his journey, his motivation and the unexpected attention and support he's received.

رئيس جامعة الأزهر يشارك في تخريج الطلاب الوافدين من مختلف دول العالم (دفعة شهداء غزة) قدم الدكتور سلامة داود، رئيس جامعة الأزهر، التهنئة للخريجين، من الطلاب الوافدين من مختلف دول العالم الدارسين في الازهر الشريف، مؤكدًا أن الأزهر كان حفيًا بطلابِه الوافدين، وسيظل عطاؤه ممتدًا، موصيًا الخريجين أن يكونوا خير سفراء للأزهر الشريف، وأن يواصلوا رحلتهم في العلم، وأن يحتفوا بطلابِه في بلادهم كما احتفى بهم الأزهر الشريف، وأن يعودوا هداة مهديين كالغيث أينما حل نفع، مشيرًا إلى أنهم حصلوا على شهادة التعليم وتخرجوا ليحصلوا على شهادة الحياة، وهي شهادة تنال بالخبرة والتعامل مع الناس. وقدم الدكتور سلامة داود التحية لفضيلة الإمام الأكبر الدكتور أحمد الطيب، شيخ الأزهر الشريف؛ لمواقفه في الدفاع عن القضية الفلسطينية وقراره بأن تحمل هذه الدفعة اسم: (دفعة شهداء غزة)؛ ليظل الشهداء في ذاكرة الخريجين إلى يوم الدين، كما قدم الشكر لمركز تطوير تعليم الوافدين والأجانب برئاسة الدكتورة نهلة الصعيدي لهذه اللفتة الطيبة التي قاموا بها في قرارهم أن تحمل ميداليات التخرج أعلام فلسطين؛ لتضئ أعناق الوافدين وتلتف حولها، فتكون رسالة لكل العالم أن أرواحنا فداء لفلسطين، وأن هذا التخرج يؤكد تضامن كل دول العالم مع فلسطين، ففي هذا الحفل ممثلون من مختلف الدول، وهم يتضامنون مع أهل فلسطين الأبرياء، وهم أمم متحدة حقيقية تحترم حقوق الإنسان وتعرف قيمته. يذكر أن الحفل نظمه مركز تطوير تعليم الوافدين والأجانب برعاية فضيلة الإمام الأكبر الدكتور أحمد الطيب، شيخ الأزهر الشريف، وحضور قيادات الأزهر الشريف، وعدد من السفراء. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/99cloudss/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/99cloudss/support

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Good afternoon, I'm _____ with today's episode of EZ News. **Tai-Ex opening ** The Tai-Ex opened up 21-points this morning from yesterday's close, at 17,259 on turnover of 5.3-billion N-T. The market closed slightly higher on Wednesday despite investor interest in the bellwether electronics sector dropping off following gains in recent sessions. Analysts say many investors remained cautious ahead of the outcome (結果) of this week's policymaking meeting of the U-S Federal Reserve and the central bank's comments on America's economy. **Vice President of Italian Senate Arrives in Taiwan ** The vice president of the upper house of the Italian parliament has arrived in Taiwan for a six-day visit. The visit to Taiwan this week by Gian Marco Centinaio is the highest-level Italian parliamentary trip to Taiwan since 1970. Centinaio is heading a three member delegation that includes one senator. According to Taiwan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Centinaio and his delegation will meet with President Tsai Ing-wen for formal (正式的) talks. The foreign minister says the delegation is seeking to gain a deeper understanding of Taiwan and explore opportunities for bilateral collaboration in the fields of politics, trade, technology, and culture. **Rain Helping Further Ease Drought in South ** The Water Resources Agency says the heavy rain that has lashed parts of the island over the past few days has contributed some 23-million cubic meters of water to major reservoirs. According to the agency, the Xinshan, Feitsui, Shihmen, Second Baoshan reservoirs in the north have received an estimated 7.1-million cubic meters of rainfall. In central Taiwan, the Techi Reservoir is now at 74-per cent of capacity, and the Liyutan Reservoir has reached 73.6-per cent of its capacity. While in the south, the Tsengwen and Wushantou Reservoirs have now accumulated more than 100-million cubic meters of rain water in total. The Water Resources Agency says levels are expected to continue to rise as the current plum rain front is forecast to last until June 18. **Japan Investigating Defense Force Shooting ** Japan's Self Defense Force is launching an investigation after a trainee shot and killed two others at a shooting range on Wednesday. The 18-year old was arrested and all shooting ranges (射擊場, 靶場) across the country shut down following the incident. Chris Gilbert reports from Tokyo. **Myanmar Army and Resistance Clash Leaving Dead ** Reports say recent fierce fighting between Myanmar's army and resistance fighters in an area east of the country's capital has killed at least two dozen civilians. The fighting has taken place in Shan State's Pekon township, a hotly contested (有爭議的) area of the armed struggle that arose after the army's February 2021 seizure of power from the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi. A local resident said at least 26 people were killed, either shot dead in their homes or when they went out onto the street, or killed by artillery strikes. **Pope and Imam Call for Human Fraternity ** Pope Francis and a leading Sunni imam have made calls for peace as the U.N. Security Council met to discuss the importance of human fraternity. The pope sent a statement calling for an end to war. Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayeb, grand imam of Al-Azhar in Cairo, said in a virtual briefing that human fraternity was the key to global peace. After their appeals, council members adopted a resolution recognizing that hate speech, racism, xenophobia, intolerance and gender discrimination can contribute to conflict. he resolution urges all countries to condemn (譴責) these acts. It was adopted unanimously even though some of the council's 15 members have been accused of some of the same actions they are condemning. That was the I.C.R.T. news, Check in again tomorrow for our simplified version of the news, uploaded every day in the afternoon. Enjoy the rest of your day, I'm _____.

Cairo Conspiracy is a thriller set in Al-Azhar university, the centre of Sunni Islam. An innocent young student finds himself being used as a spy to manipulate the election of a new leader. Directed by Tarik Saleh (The Nile Hilton Incident)

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Please help us this Ramadan by making a donation to the show - more information here: ⁠⁠https://www.thinkingmuslim.com/Donate The great Damascene scholar Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya (d. 751/1350) authored the masterpiece of Islamic psychology Madarij al-Salikin, (Ranks of the Divine Seekers). It sets out the great Hanbalite's advice on how to journey to Allah and reach the ranks of a loving believer of our Lord. Professor Ovamir Anjum, the translator into English of this great work, talks to The Thinking Muslim about Ibn Qayyim's spiritual perspectives, including the wisdom of sin, what attributes a believer should shun and acquire, the multiple stations on the route to this journey and the role of obedience to Allah for spiritual felicity. Dr. Ovamir Anjum is the Imam Khattab Endowed Chair of Islamic Studies at the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at the University of Toledo. He obtained his Ph.D. in Islamic Intellectual history in the Department of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Masters in Social Sciences from the University of Chicago, and Masters in Computer Science and Bachelors in Nuclear Engineering and Physics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Before higher education, his Islamic training began at home while growing up in Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and the United States with a broad range of scholars, including his remarkable grandmother, and continued as he studied fiqh with South Asian Ḥanafī and Ahl-e-hadīs scholars and usūl al-fiqh and qirā'āt of the Quran with scholars from Egypt's Al-Azhar and Syria. He currently leads the Ummatics Institute and is the Editor in-Chief of Yaqeen Institute. Join our Telegram group here: ⁠⁠⁠https://t.me/thinkingmuslim ⁠⁠⁠ Follow us on Twitter here: ⁠⁠⁠https://twitter.com/jalalayn⁠⁠⁠ and⁠⁠⁠ https://twitter.com/thinking_muslim⁠⁠⁠ Website Archive: thinkingmuslim.com

The Abrahamic Family House is the name for three giant concrete cubes – a church, a mosque and a synagogue – that have just officially opened their doors in Abu Dhabi. The project is the fruit of a controversial agreement signed there in 2019 by Pope Francis and the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar, Ahmad Al-Tayyeb, that disturbed many Christians with its statement that the existence of separate religions is God's will. But it's a spectacular coup for the government of the United Arab Emirates and will no doubt reassure expats that there's freedom of religion in the UAE. In fact, I wonder how many of them are even aware that 'apostasy' – for example, a Muslim converting to Christianity – remains a capital offence in the Emirates.  But is this sort of carping justified? Since Sharia was adopted by the UAE in 1978, no one has actually been executed for apostasy. And surely the big story here is that Jews, for so long the targets of Muslim anti-semitism, are now welcome to practise their religion in an officially Islamic country. The synagogue of the Abrahamic Family House is the first purpose-built Jewish house of worship to open its doors in the Arab world since the 1930s. There's no doubt that the UAE is moving quickly in the direction of religious toleration, and perhaps we shouldn't be too worried by the boilerplate multi-faith jargon emanating from the pompously named 'Higher Community of Human Fraternity' that presides over the Abrahamic Family House.  In this episode of Holy Smoke I weigh the pros and cons of this lavish project with Nathan Eckersley, who's joining the podcast as our new researcher. He's excited by the Abrahamic Family House. I think the jury's still out and I remain to be convinced that the concept of 'Abrahamic faiths' is anything more than an irritating fiction. But listen for yourself. 

Ilskan mot Sverige växer. Efter Paludans koranbränning har stora protester brutit ut i delar av den muslimska världen och nu har Al-Azhar-universitet i Kairo, den sunnimuslimska världens högsta religösa institution, uppmanat till bojkott av svenska varor. Hur allvarligt är det här läget? Hur hårt kan en eventuell bojkott slå mot svensk ekonomi? Kan ilskan eskalera och få ännu värre konsekvenser än bojkott, till och med våldsamma? Gäst: Mohammad Fazlhashemi, professor i islamisk teologi och filosofi vid Uppsala universitet Programledare: Vilma Ljunggren Kontakt: podcast@aftonbladet.se

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Another excellent episode for you guys today! We had the honour of hosting our beloved Sheikh Alaa on the podcast. We delved into his journey seeking knowledge, studying at Al-Azhar, his big move to Melbourne from Egypt to become a sheikh, the Qadr of Allah, marriage  & The Importance of Muslim Representation Please leave a comment; we'd love to hear what you guys think and chime in on the topics as well! If you enjoyed this episode or found it beneficial, don't forget to LIKE the video and SHARE it with others!!  Follow us on our socials at:  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fairdinkumau/  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/fairdinkumau  Tik Tok: @fairdinkumau  For the audio listeners out there:  Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast...  Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2yRDjMv...  Peace!!

Quel souvenir laisse Benoît XVI en Afrique, à la fois chez les chrétiens et les musulmans ? Pourquoi a-t-il abdiqué il y a 10 ans ? En ce jour des obsèques de Benoît XVI, entretien avec le religieux burkinabè Jean-Paul Sagadou, père assomptionniste et journaliste au groupe de presse catholique Bayard Afrique, à Abidjan et à Ouagadougou. RFI : Quel bilan faites-vous du pontificat de Benoît XVI ? Père Jean-Paul Sagadou : Alors c'est difficile de faire le bilan d'un pape et il a eu une décision audacieuse, surprenante même, de faire ce qu'aucun pape n'avait jamais osé faire depuis des siècles, renoncer à sa charge. S'il y avait trois choses à dire sur ce qui a marqué son pontificat, je dirais la foi, l'espérance et la charité. Alors, vous dites qu'il a stupéfait le monde entier le jour de février 2013, où il a renoncé à sa charge. À l'époque, il disait que c'était pour des raisons de santé, mais il a survécu 10 ans à son abdication. Était-ce seulement pour cela ? Alors, c'est difficile à dire. J'estime personnellement que les choses se sont passées au plus profond de sa conscience. Il a compris qu'il avait peut-être atteint un âge qui ne lui permettait plus de continuer à assumer correctement sa mission. Après, évidemment, les observateurs de ce qui peut se passer au Vatican peuvent épiloguer, comme quoi c'était difficile, qu'il y avait peut-être des mésententes à l'intérieur [du Vatican, NDLR]. Personnellement, je considère qu'il a pris une décision audacieuse, que moi je considère aujourd'hui comme quelque chose d'assez positif. Je pense que ça a été un homme défenseur de la doctrine de la foi qui n'a pas voulu se mêler à des enjeux de pouvoir, parce que, pour lui, qui dit pouvoir dit forcément, nécessairement, service. L'un de ses grands combats, c'était la lutte contre l'esprit de mai 68 et contre le relativisme moral, n'est-ce pas l'une des raisons de son abdication de 2013 et peut-être, au contraire de ce que vous appelez l'espérance, une forme de désespoir ? Je pense que c'est difficile de percevoir les choses de cette manière. C'est vrai, en 2005 – je crois, lors d'une homélie – il a déclaré : « Nous mettons en place une dictature du relativisme qui ne reconnaît rien comme définitif et dont les standards ultimes sont simplement l'ego et les désirs de chacun ». De ce point de vue, on peut dire qu'il s'est retrouvé en face d'un monde qui vit en contradiction avec la perception qu'il a de l'Évangile. Est-ce que cela l'a bousculé, troublé ? Est-ce que son message ne passait pas et cela l'a poussé à partir ? Moi, je ne mettrais pas forcément cette hypothèse en avant, voilà. Alors, comme son compagnon de toujours, Jean-Paul II, Benoît XVI laisse le souvenir d'un théologien conservateur qui était intransigeant sur la question des mœurs : il défendait le célibat des prêtres, il ne voulait pas entendre parler de l'ordination des femmes. Est-ce qu'aujourd'hui, il n'apparaît pas comme un pape qui n'est plus de son temps ? Oui, je crois que Benoît XVI se situait dans la droite ligne de la tradition de l'Église. Justement, sur l'ordination des femmes, c'est assez subtil ce qu'il disait : « Nous ne disons pas que nous ne voulons pas, mais que nous ne pouvons pas. » Et il ajoutait que le Seigneur a donné à l'Église une forme avec les 12 apôtres, puis avec les évêques et les prêtres, donc ce n'est pas nous qui avons donné cette forme à l'Église. Alors, on peut considérer que cette position-là, d'un point de vue théologique, peut rester une forme de débat à l'intérieur de l'Église, mais en tout cas, telle a été sa position. Mais sur le célibat des prêtres, n'y a-t-il pas une grande hypocrisie, notamment en Afrique ? Hypocrisie, je ne sais pas. Et pourquoi l'Afrique ? Par contre, on constate, avec toutes les questions que nous connaissons actuellement des abus dans l'Église, qu'il y a quand même un certain nombre de questions qui se posent, qui méritent qu'au sein de l'Église, on regarde avec beaucoup plus de clairvoyance, de vérité. L'enjeu étant vraiment le service de l'Église. ►À lire aussi : Le pape François rend un dernier hommage à son prédécesseur lors des obsèques de Benoît XVI N'y aurait-il pas moins d'abus sexuels dans l'Église catholique si les prêtres avaient le droit de se marier ? C'est une bonne question, mais je ne sais pas qui serait capable de répondre à cette question, est-ce qu'il y aurait moins de difficultés ? Ou plus, ou moins… Je n'en sais rien (sourire). Benoît XVI est le premier pape à s'être engagé au sein de l'Église catholique dans la lutte contre les abus sexuels et la pédocriminalité. Mais n'a-t-il pas été trop timide dans ce combat ? C'est le reproche qu'on lui fait, en effet, mais je pense qu'il faut insister sur le fait qu'il a été le premier à s'engager auprès des victimes de violences sexuelles commises par les clercs. Il est le premier souverain pontife à consacrer un document à cette crise-là, avec la publication en 2010 d'une lettre aux catholiques d'Irlande après des révélations sur des milliers de cas. D'ailleurs, un texte au ton vif, dans lequel il dit partager leur consternation et leur sentiment de trahison. Donc, moi, je pense que c'est un homme humble qui a d'ailleurs accepté les critiques qui étaient adressées à l'Église et qui finalement contribuaient à mettre en place de nouvelles normes pour qu'on puisse quand même – disons le mot, et je pense que lui-même l'a utilisé – nettoyer l'Église. On sait qu'en son temps, il y a eu quelque 400 prêtres qui ont quand même été renvoyés. Et puis, le pape François a poursuivi le travail. Benoît XVI n'aimait pas voyager, mais en novembre 2011, il est allé au Bénin, notamment à Ouidah, où il a signé l'exhortation Africae Munus, l'engagement pour l'Afrique, une sorte de feuille de route de l'Église catholique pour l'Afrique. Qu'en retenez-vous ? Alors ce n'était pas seulement au Bénin, mais il a fait aussi le Cameroun et puis l'Angola et je pense qu'au Bénin, de fait, c'était une étape importante parce qu'il y avait eu le second synode des évêques pour l'Afrique – c'était peut-être en octobre 2009 – et donc là, en arrivant au Bénin en 2011, c'est à cette occasion que le pape a remis l'exhortation synodale Africae Munus, donc l'engagement des évêques pour l'Afrique. Et puis on peut voir dans ce texte comme une sorte de charte pour la réconciliation, la justice et la paix en Afrique. En 2009, on avait aussi la mémoire de tout ce qui s'était passé, avec le génocide au Rwanda, toutes les problématiques d'ethnies, de tribus… Donc ce qui a été au cœur de ce voyage du pape, c'est quand même cette question de la réconciliation, de la justice et de la paix. Et puis il a interpellé tout le monde, à la fois les responsables d'Église, mais aussi les hommes politiques, puisqu'il a parlé de la bonne gouvernance. Moi, je retiens deux choses : il a parlé de l'Église d'Afrique comme d'un poumon spirituel pour l'humanité, donc il y a quelque chose à en tirer, il y a de la richesse. Il a aussi appelé les gouvernants à ne pas priver les populations d'avenir, d'espérance et donc à travailler à une bonne gouvernance pour qu'enfin, ce continent-là, qui est si riche, puisse quand même apporter sa contribution au reste du monde, mais à condition qu'il y ait la paix, la fraternité, la solidarité. Et puis il y a la grande question des rapports entre chrétiens et musulmans. L'un des moments les plus marquants du pontificat de Benoît XVI reste son discours de Ratisbonne en septembre 2006, où il a cité un empereur byzantin qui disait que la violence était intrinsèque à l'islam. Il a eu raison ou il a eu tort ? Alors en fait, je crois qu'il a été très mal compris, mais on sait aussi qu'assez rapidement, il a été accueilli en Turquie par le président Erdogan, et il a redit son souhait de voir musulmans et chrétiens marcher côte à côte sur les chemins d'une compréhension réciproque. Donc, je pense qu'à Ratisbonne, il y a eu quiproquo, il y a eu incompréhension et peut-être que le contexte global aussi de l'époque pouvait favoriser cela et ça a créé des dégâts. Et je pense que le pape en a beaucoup souffert lui-même, parce qu'il a eu plusieurs occasions de dire que ce n'est pas ce qu'il voulait dire et qu'il a même beaucoup d'estime pour le Coran, pour lequel il éprouve le respect qui convient, pour le Livre Saint d'une grande religion comme l'islam. C'est vrai qu'il y a eu beaucoup de violence au nom de l'islam dans l'histoire, mais n'y a-t-il pas eu aussi beaucoup de violence au nom du christianisme dans l'histoire ? Ah, c'est évident, c'est évident. Parce que ce discours a beaucoup choqué, notamment à la mosquée Al-Azhar du Caire, à la Grande Mosquée de Paris. Est-ce que le pape a ensuite trouvé les voies du dialogue avec ces grands docteurs de la foi musulmane ? Oui, justement, je me rappelle, j'étais au Togo à l'époque. Là, vous évoquez un peu des grands lieux d'islam où les conséquences ont été dramatiques, mais en fait, jusque dans les petits villages, même d'Afrique, il y a eu quand même une sorte de rayonnement de ce discours qui a provoqué une sorte d'effervescence irrationnelle. Y compris dans les communautés musulmanes d'Afrique de l'Ouest, comme au Togo ? Oui, oui, évidemment. Moi – je me rappelle donc – moi je vivais dans une ville où il y avait 70% de musulmans. On s'est retrouvé avec des jeunes qui ne comprenaient pas forcément ce qui avait été dit. Le discours, c'est : « On a insulté l'islam, on a insulté le prophète. » Donc, ça suffisait pour sortir et crier. C'est pour ça que je trouve qu'il y a eu quiproquo. Probablement que l'intellectuel, le grand théologien que Mgr Ratzinger, devenu pape Benoît XVI, a eu un discours qui n'est pas facilement accessible pour la plupart d'entre nous et qui peut provoquer ce type d'incompréhension. Mais la question, c'est : comment s'est-il comporté par la suite ? On sait qu'il y a eu plusieurs approches. Le fait qu'il y ait eu cette rencontre en Turquie, mais je pense qu'il y a eu d'autres occasions où le pape Benoît XVI a essayé de rendre compte de ce qu'il voulait dire, et que ce n'était pas une attaque contre l'islam. Et je pense que Benoît XVI – et bien avant lui, même Jean-Paul II – ils ont toujours, quand même, intégré la question de la raison, de la réflexion. On ne croit pas n'importe comment et sinon, on verse dans l'intolérance. Et puis, dans tout ce qu'on connaît aujourd'hui, comme fondamentalisme et tout ça… La foi doit être forcément éclairée, et je crois que c'est ça qui peut nous faire avancer ensemble. Pour conclure, peut-on dire que Benoît XVI a été un pape incompris ? Peut-être. J'ai eu le sentiment, depuis son décès, avec tout ce que j'ai pu lire et entendre, que de fait, les gens se disent « on pense qu'on l'avait un peu mal compris, mais on pense qu'on le comprend, peut être maintenant », et c'est souvent après la mort de certaines personnes qu'on découvre vraiment leur visage et qu'on reconnait quels ont été le poids, la force de leurs paroles, de leurs discours. ► À écouter aussi : Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo (RDC): le pape Benoît XVI reste «notre plus grand théologien»

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"Det är nya grupper som aldrig har hört av sig till oss tidigare" säger diakoner i Svenska kyrkan. Mycket har redan blivit dyrare och det väntar ännu tuffare tider varnar finansministern för. Detta har lett till att fler utsatta grupper söker stöd från Svenska kyrkan enligt några av deras diakoner. Ska kyrkans diakoner komplettera det offentliga eller ska de istället ersätta det som andra instanser inte erbjuder? Hör röster från flera diakoner och en diskussion om hur man kan se på en möjlig förändrad arbetsbeskrivning. Hör Tove Lifvendahl, politisk chefredaktör på Svenska Dagbladet och Linda Johansson från Socialdemokrater för tro och solidaritet. Även Anna Moilanen som utbildar framtidens diakoner medverkar.Hur politisk ska kyrkan få vara? Fredrik Modéus som är biskop i Växjö stift har i en debattartikel i Expressen tydligt tagit ställning mot Sverigedemokraternas politik som han tycker "går emot värden som kännetecknar kristen idétradition." Hör honom i en debatt med Daniel Engström, gruppledare i Kyrkomötet för Sverigedemokraterna.----Filmen Boy från heaven är en thriller som utspelar sig på lärosätet Al-Azhar i Kairo, som är en auktoritet i den sunnimuslimska världen. Hör den prisbelönte regissören och manusförfattaren Tarik Saleh om filmen som har premiär i veckan.Programledare: Åsa Furuhagen Reportrar: Johanna Sjövall och Tara Rezai Lindorm Producent: Anders Diamant

At a meeting of the French bishops' conference, a letter from Cardinal Jean-Pierre Ricard was read aloud, in which the cardinal admitted that he had “conducted himself in a reprehensible fashion” with a 14 year old girl, adding, “My behavior necessarily caused in this person grave and lasting consequences.” On “Inside the Vatican” this week, host Colleen Dulle and veteran Vatican correspondent Gerard O'Connell explain what is known about the case. Cardinal Ricard was up to now a member of the Vatican's Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, the Vatican office tasked with investigating abuse cases, though it isn't clear whether Cardinal Ricard himself ever investigated a case. The French church is currently reeling from a series of major abuse revelations. First, a report released last fall looked into sexual abuse of minors in Catholic institutions and estimated that up to 330,000 minors had been abused since 1950. More recently, there's been the case of Bishop Michel Santier, who retired as bishop of Creteil in 2020 citing health reasons. It was recently revealed that he was actually removed by the Vatican for “using his influence over two young adult men for sexual purposes” and abusing the sacrament of confession by holding “striptease confessions.” Colleen and Gerry discuss the lack of transparency in all these cases. In the second half of the show, Gerry and Colleen discuss Pope Francis' trip to Bahrain over the weekend, where he attended an interreligious gathering, the “Bahrain Forum for Dialogue: East and West for Human Coexistence.” The hosts view the trip in the context of Pope Francis' relationship with the Sunni Grand Imam of Al-Azhar, who also attended the meeting and with whom the pope wrote a milestone 2019 document on human fraternity. Links from the show: French cardinal admits to abusing teen girl 35 years ago Pope Francis in Bahrain: What to know and expect Pope Francis slams ‘childlike' whims of powerful that start wars as Putin's invasion of Ukraine rages on In Bahrain, Pope Francis calls for full religious freedom and an end to the death penalty Pope: ‘Every time a woman comes in to do a job in the Vatican, things get better' Pope Francis: 'Three world wars in one century: be pacifists!' (Full press conference text) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this episode of the NTEB Prophecy News Podcast, the One World Religion we call Chrislam has now being ratified and codified on all levels including the United Nations. Pope Francis gave a lengthy speech at the 7th Congress of World and Traditional Religions, where they voted to make the Human Fraternity document, created by himself and Mohamed bin Zayed, official law and policy. When you combine all this with the Abraham Accords, also created by Mohamed bin Zayed, you have yourself the One World Religion just waiting for its leader to step our of the shadows and take control. This means that the Pretribulation Rapture of the Church is that much closer, as that event is the kick starter for the time of Jacob's trouble and the Day of the Lord time period. Today on the Prophecy News Podcast, we break it all down for you in glorious end times detail. The world religious leaders on Thursday formally adopted the Human Fraternity Document signed by His Eminence the Grand Imam of Al Azhar and Chairman of the Muslim Council of Elders, Dr. Ahmed el-Tayyeb, and His Holiness Pope Francis of the Catholic Church, in Abu Dhabi in 2019. This came during the 7th Congress of Leaders of World and Traditional Religions which concluded last week. What does all that mean? It means that the Chrislam started by Vatican evangelist Rick Warren going all the way back to 2003 is now confirmed and complete.

We are joined by Dr. Ovamir Anjum who is an author, translator, and lecturer. Dr. Ovamir Anjum is the Imam Khattab Endowed Chair of Islamic Studies at the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at the University of Toledo. His work focuses on the nexus of theology, ethics, politics, and law in Islam, with a comparative interest in Western Thought. Trained as a historian, his work is essentially interdisciplinary, drawing on the fields of classical Islamic studies, political philosophy, and cultural anthropology. He obtained his Ph.D. in Islamic Intellectual history in the Department of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Masters in Social Sciences from the University of Chicago, and Masters in Computer Science and Bachelors in Nuclear Engineering and Physics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Before higher education, his Islamic training began at home while growing up in Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and the United States with a broad range of scholars including his remarkable grandmother, and continued as he studied fiqh with South Asian Ḥanafī and Ahl-e-hadīs scholars and usūl al-fiqh and qirā'āt of the Quran with scholars from Egypt's Al-Azhar and Syria. He is the author of Politics, Law and Community in Islamic Thought: The Taymiyyan Moment (Cambridge University Press, 2012). He translated Madarij al-Salikin (Ranks of Divine Seekers, Brill 2020) by Ibn al-Qayyim (d. 1351), one of the greatest Islamic spiritual classics, which is the largest single-author English translation of an Arabic text. His current projects include a survey of Islamic history and a monograph on Islamic political thought. This podcast is sponsored by MeccaBooks.com Use Discount Code: TMM to save 10% at Meccabooks.com

Hari ini, 9 September 2022, shalat di Masjid Al-Azhar. Aku jarang2 shloat di masjid Al-Azhar karena jaraknya lumayan jauh kalau jalan kaki dari tempat tinggalku di Gamaliyah. Lebih sering sholat di sekitar Gamaliyah. Tadi yang khatib luar biasa mantap, poin2 yang disampaikan masuk sekali ke dalam hati, senang sekali dengar khutbah Jumat seperti hari ini! Teman jalan dari rumah/ Ahmad Masyhudi/ Sultan Kawakib --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/ulviye/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/ulviye/support

Danny Archer is joined by Ed Quigley and Johnny Ward to look at this weekend's card from Ascot, previewing both Friday's and Saturday's action.The guys start with a look at the John Guest Racing Brown Jack Handicap on Friday with both Johnny and Ed strong on Speedo Boy for Richard Kingscote here.Ryan Moore is onboard The Whipmaster in the 3.40 which is sure to go off favourite, neither of our tipsters are too keen on him at the price but Johnny picks out a 14/1 selection.Ed has another decent priced pick in the Slingsby Gin Handicap with Tom Marquand onboard his pick Tidal Storm, the Ryan Moore ridden Al Azhar the favourite once again in this one.Saturday's action kick offs in the Princess Margaret. Lezoo is the 2/1 favourite, looking to bounce back from last time out, the panel have their reservations about her in what could be a trappy race.Ed likes the look of Zanbaq in the Valiant Stakes next up. She's currently a best price of 2/1 as Ed breaks character and tips up a favourite whilst it's Thunder Beauty for Johnny.It's a very competitive International Stakes next up ahead of the main event. Both Johnny and Ed are prepared to give Fresh another chance here after disappointment last time out.The King George VI & Queen Elizabeth stakes is next with Irish Derby winner Westover the 11/8 favourite. Emily Upjohn looks to bounce back from her nightmare start in the Oaks whilst Mishriff is well fancied too. Head to 22:00 to listen to the preview of Saturday's showpiece event.For more previews of the biggest events in sport, subscribe to our channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/oddschecker?sub_confirmation=1 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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Zakat is often mischaracterised as merely the act of paying individual alms. In reality it is a sophisticated system of wealth redistribution and spiritual sacrifice that helps to nurture a true Muslim fraternity. It is customary to pay Zakat in Ramadan, as this is when the reward is greatest for all deeds but also the heightened sense of brotherhood and the absence of Shaytaan's whispers asking us to hold back, means that charitable donations flood various causes. But what is Zakat? To whom can it be paid? How do we calculate Zakat? Which organisations can we offer our money to? What if we have debt? These questions and more will be answered by my learned guest today. Dr Osman Umarji is a director at Yaqeen Institute, he is also a Professor in the School of Education at UC Irvine and has studied at Al Azhar university. Thanks to the team: Riaz Hasan, Musab Muhammad, Reem Walid, Adeel Alam, Yusra Zainuddin, Ahaz Atif and Umar Abdul Salam. You can donate to the show here: https://www.thinkingmuslim.com/contribute Follow us on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/jalalayn and https://twitter.com/thinking_muslim Website: thinkingmuslim.com

Shirin 'Ilimi Hasken Rayuwa' na wannan makon tare da Bashir Ibrahim Idris, ya tattauna akan gudunmawar da Jami'ar Al Azhar ta baiwa fannin ilimi a duniya. Cikin shirin za a ji tattaunawa da masu ruwa da tsaki a fannin na ilimi cikinsu har da tsaffin daliban da dadaddiyar Jami'ar ta yaye.

Since their takeover of Afghanistan in 2021, the Taliban have introduced new policies and regulations based on their own interpretation of Islam and Sharia — many of which have placed restrictions on women’s rights. On March 28, USIP hosted a conversation examining the differences between Taliban views and practices and those of other Muslim-majority nations. Speakers Kathleen Kuehnast, welcoming remarksDirector, Gender Policy and Strategy, U.S. Institute of Peace Sheikh Ahmed al TayebGrand Imam of Al Azhar, Sheikh Al Azhar Rina AmiriU.S. Special Envoy for Afghan Women, Girls and Human Rights Her Excellency, Sheikha Alya Ahmed bin Saif Al ThaniPermanent Representative of the State of Qatar to the United Nations Fatima GailaniAfghan Political Leader and Islamic Scholar Retno MarsudiMinister of Foreign Affairs to the Republic of Indonesia Ambassador Deborah LyonsU.N. Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Afghanistan, Head of UNAMA Palwasha Kakar, moderatorActing Director, Religion and Inclusive Societies, U.S. Institute of Peace For more information about this event, please visit: https://www.usip.org/events/islam-peace-and-womens-rights-afghanistan

Two weeks after the release of a report that accused Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI of mishandling sexual abuse cases when he was the archbishop of Munich and Freising, the former pope responded in a brief letter published Feb. 8 by the Vatican. "I have had great responsibilities in the Catholic Church,” Benedict XVI writes. “All the greater is my pain for the abuses and the errors that occurred in those different places during the time of my mandate.” On this episode of “Inside the Vatican,” veteran Vatican correspondent Gerard O'Connell and host Colleen Dulle analyze the emeritus pope's letter and the accompanying, more technical, explanatory note drafted by his lawyer friends. The letter confirms, on the record, that Benedict did not write his 82-page testimony to the German investigators and that the factual error about him attending a 1980 meeting where an abuse case was discussed was not intentional. Although Benedict expresses regret that abuse happened on his watch, he does not take responsibility for any specific cases and his lawyers maintain his innocence. On the podcast, Colleen and Gerry discuss how the letter has been received and how the events of recent weeks will affect his legacy. Links from the show: Pope Benedict asks for forgiveness in a ‘confession' responding to Munich sex abuse report Read: Pope Benedict XVI's penitential letter on Munich sexual abuse report Pope Francis: I'm no saint. I couldn't be pope without my friends. Pope Francis, Joe Biden and Grand Imam of Al-Azhar all issue statements promoting human fraternity Cardinal Marx: Having married priests ‘would be better for everyone' Top European cardinal: Church teaching on gay people ‘no longer correct' Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this episode of the NTEB Prophecy News Podcast, sounding like a page ripped out of Left Behind, the United Nations on February 4th is rolling out the red carpet to celebrate the 2nd Annual International Day of Human Fraternity Festival in Abu Dhabi. Regular readers of NTEB know that the Declaration of Human Fraternity is Chrislam and the One World Religion created by Pope Francis, the Vatican, and Mohammed bin Zayed from the Muslim world. This thing is straight out of Revelation and is so much more advanced than you think it is. 2022 is going to see the opening of the Abrahamic Family House, and a massive acceleration of the Abraham Accords. For over a decade we told you Chrislam was coming, now it's here and being celebrated at the highest levels at the United Nations. Everything is in place for the man of sin to step out of the shadows as Flight #777 prepares for takeoff. The Human Fraternity Festival also known as Chrislam, will start tomorrow, February 4th, at Expo 2020 Dubai, organised by the Ministry of Tolerance and Coexistence, in collaboration with the Higher Committee of Human Fraternity, with the participation of international and Arab entities, including representatives of Al-Azhar and the Vatican. The event will celebrate the UAE's efforts to promote tolerance and its leadership's vision to strengthen the values of tolerance and human fraternity both locally and globally. Are you listening to this? This is end times prophecy in your face, can you see it?

Een gesprek met SDOK-collega Emma de Vries over de bijzondere ontmoeting met voormalig moslimgeleerde Hassan. Ze ontmoette hem tijdens een recente reis naar Egypte. Hassan was docent op de prestigieuze Al-Azhar universiteit in Cairo. Nu werkt hij als afwasser in een restaurant omdat hij zijn goede baan kwijtraakte nadat hij besloot Jezus te volgen. Emma vertelt hoe Hassans leven is veranderd, maar ook wat ze geleerd heeft van deze bijzondere ontmoeting.

Saat Diri Tersakiti - Ustadz Muhammad Halid Syar'ie & Ustadz Harits Abu Naufal Yuk Brothers&Sisters, yang kangen kajian Rabu malam Al Azhar, markipul - Mari kita ngumpul. Wabah ternyata masih ada dan nyata.  Semua ini ujian kawan. Tak usah gundah dan risau. Kita hadapi dengan iman. Perjuangan ini hanyalah sesaat. Bersabarlah, karena setelah ini, ada waktunya nikmat sejati beristirahat.

Hanya Islam - Ustadz Masykur Abu Mawaddah Yuk Brothers&Sisters, yang kangen kajian Rabu malam Al Azhar, markipul - Mari kita ngumpul. Wabah ternyata masih ada dan nyata.  Semua ini ujian kawan. Tak usah gundah dan risau. Kita hadapi dengan iman. Perjuangan ini hanyalah sesaat. Bersabarlah, karena setelah ini, ada waktunya nikmat sejati beristirahat.

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Dune is the 2021 American epic sci-fi film we've all heard of, directed by Denis Villeneuve. Set in the distant future amidst a feudal intersteller society, various noble houses battle over resources on a desert planet. The basic plot of Dune is perhaps one of orientalist tropes, involving White hero Paul heading to the planet Arrakis to liberate the Arab/Muslim-like Fremen. We'll be discussing the themes of Dune with our guest Margari Aziza Hill, longtime fan of Dune and Executive Director of the Muslim Anti-Racism Collective. Margari adjunct professor, blogger, editor, and freelance writer with articles published in How We Fight White Supremacy (2019) Time, Huffington Post, Al Jazeera English, Islamic Monthly, and MuslimMatters. She has over 15 years teaching experience at various capacities including substitute teacher, instructor, curriculum design, school policy, teacher training, as well as teaching assistant and teaching fellow. Her research includes colonial perceptions mixed-raced identities in Northern Nigeria, anti-colonial resistance among West Africans in Sudan during the early 20th century, transformations in Islamic learning in Northern Nigeria, and International student programs at Al-Azhar and Cairo University. We'll be discussing what we thought of Dune, what Frank Herbert's intentions were for the obvious Islamic influences, the debate around the lack of MENA representation in the movie and more.

Hubungan Abadi - Ustadz Masykur Abu Mawaddah Yuk Brothers&Sisters, yang kangen kajian Rabu malam Al Azhar, markipul - Mari kita ngumpul. Wabah ternyata masih ada dan nyata.  Semua ini ujian kawan. Tak usah gundah dan risau. Kita hadapi dengan iman. Perjuangan ini hanyalah sesaat. Bersabarlah, karena setelah ini, ada waktunya nikmat sejati beristirahat.

Jatuh Cinta pada Dakwah Oleh: Maman El Hakiem Voice Over Talent: Dewi N NarasiPost.Com-Jatuh yang tak terasa sakitnya, itulah jatuh cinta. Semua menjadi indah, sekalipun jalan yang dilaluinya berliku dan berduri. Perasaan cinta yang bergelora telah menutupi pahitnya kehidupan dan perihnya sayatan sembilu caci makian. Segala episode hidup yang dialaminya selalu disikapi dengan cara yang terbaik sesuai pemahamannya akan makna cinta yang hakiki. Cinta yang didasari atas keteguhan iman dan kesabaran menjalani aturan Islam. Harus disadari, Islam adalah agama penuh cinta dan kasih sayang. Dari namanya saja, Islam adalah “as-salmu” yang berarti damai. Orang yang sedang jatuh cinta akan merasakan kedamaian bila bersama dengan yang dicintainya. Perasaan tenteram atau damai itu adalah hikmah dari naluri beragama. Namun, Islam bukan hanya agama normatif melainkan pula agama dakwah. Bukan sekadar memberikan ketenteraman bagi dirinya, tetapi harus pula menjadi rahmat untuk seluruh alam semesta. Karena itu, Islam meliputi akidah dan syariah. Bukan hanya mengajarkan perkara ubudiyah, namun juga menyangkut muamalah, hukum jinayat dan uqubat lainnya. Aktivitas dakwah adalah seruan untuk menaati hukum-hukum Allah Swt. tersebut yang sifatnya individual, maupun dalam dimensi sosial, komunal dan global. Karenanya, kewajiban dakwah ini adalah tugas individual, jemaah dan juga negara (daulah). Seruan dakwah dibatasi pada dalil tentang amar makruf dan nahi mungkar. Dalam hal ini, Prof. Dr. Hamka menjelaskan di dalam kitab tafsirnya “Al-Azhar”, bahwa makna kata makruf diambil dari kata ‘uruf yang berarti yang dikenal atau yang dapat dimengerti dan dapat dipahami serta dapat diterima oleh masyarakat. Dakwah yang dipahami maksudnya disampaikan dengan “bahasa kaumnya” dalam arti dakwah yang mencerahkan pemikiran dan terpuaskannya akal. Naskah Selengkapnya: https://narasipost.com/2021/09/29/jatuh-cinta-pada-dakwah/ Terimakasih buat kalian yang sudah mendengarkan podcast ini, Follow us on: instagram: http://instagram.com/narasipost Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/narasi.post.9 Fanpage: Https://www.facebook.com/pg/narasipostmedia/posts/ Twitter: Http://twitter.com/narasipost

Imagine being in Egypt, all by yourself and having to experience something supernatural and not having anyone to help or take care of you afterwards. Listen in as I share three stories of students abroad in Al Azhar and the jins they meet. Creepy.

#ForRawanInGaza — is a grassroots effort in Montréal to support Rawan, a medical student studying at Al-Azhar university in Gaza, Palestine. Rawan is an eighteen-year-old Palestinian student, who is a part of community efforts to strengthen local medical infrastructure in Gaza, Palestine & is currently studying to be a doctor, but needs financial solidarity & support, due to a low family income within the context of the ongoing Israeli military siege & navel blockade on Gaza. working right now with a Palestinian family in Montréal to support Rawan. till date we have raised $495.68 Canadian, we aim to raise more, if you want to support please write at stefan.christoff [ a t ] gmail . com thank you !