Comments on: Our response to the New York Times Article http://blog.sunnipath.com/2007/02/06/our-response-to-new-york-times-article/ Thoughts from the Staff of the Online Islamic Academy Tue, 02 Dec 2008 02:39:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: yasmeen khalid http://blog.sunnipath.com/2007/02/06/our-response-to-new-york-times-article/#comment-31 yasmeen khalid Wed, 21 Feb 2007 22:25:48 +0000 http://blog.sunnipath.com/2007/02/06/our-response-to-new-york-times-article/#comment-31 A very decent,well balanced and appropriate response.Alhamdulilah. A very decent,well balanced and appropriate response.Alhamdulilah.

]]> By: The Enlightenment » The Great “Divide” http://blog.sunnipath.com/2007/02/06/our-response-to-new-york-times-article/#comment-13 The Enlightenment » The Great “Divide” Mon, 12 Feb 2007 08:26:29 +0000 http://blog.sunnipath.com/2007/02/06/our-response-to-new-york-times-article/#comment-13 [...] Nevertheless, the article has caused a reaction from the acclaimed Sunnipath.com website, an online Sunni academy. The director of the academy went as far as blogging about the article and publicy responded to it (http://blog.sunnipath.com/?p=13). [...] […] Nevertheless, the article has caused a reaction from the acclaimed Sunnipath.com website, an online Sunni academy. The director of the academy went as far as blogging about the article and publicy responded to it (http://blog.sunnipath.com/?p=13). […]

]]> By: Samir http://blog.sunnipath.com/2007/02/06/our-response-to-new-york-times-article/#comment-12 Samir Sun, 11 Feb 2007 10:59:22 +0000 http://blog.sunnipath.com/2007/02/06/our-response-to-new-york-times-article/#comment-12 Br. Imran, I am very encouraged to know your website, as well as your organization, have taken a position of acceptance and tolerance of other Muslim denominations. My only concern is when you suggest that "all major Sunni scholors condem sectarian intolerance", unfortunately I do not see that echoed in practice when we recieve a different message from high-ranking Sunni scholars in Saudi Arabia. Nor do we see any open condemnation from the pulpits of those ideas (if you really believe that Sunni scholars actually condem sectarian intolerance). Rather it is glorified and used as ammunition to tear down unity in the Muslim community. I feel happy to know your website has choosen to forsake disunity and embrace tolerance, but the legitimacy of your letter and the true test will be seen from the pulpits of North American religious leaders. Signed, Jaded but Hopeful Muslim Br. Imran,

I am very encouraged to know your website, as well as your organization, have taken a position of acceptance and tolerance of other Muslim denominations.

My only concern is when you suggest that “all major Sunni scholors condem sectarian intolerance”, unfortunately I do not see that echoed in practice when we recieve a different message from high-ranking Sunni scholars in Saudi Arabia. Nor do we see any open condemnation from the pulpits of those ideas (if you really believe that Sunni scholars actually condem sectarian intolerance). Rather it is glorified and used as ammunition to tear down unity in the Muslim community.

I feel happy to know your website has choosen to forsake disunity and embrace tolerance, but the legitimacy of your letter and the true test will be seen from the pulpits of North American religious leaders.

Signed,
Jaded but Hopeful Muslim

]]> By: Response to the NYTimes Article « Travellers on the Path of Knowledge http://blog.sunnipath.com/2007/02/06/our-response-to-new-york-times-article/#comment-11 Response to the NYTimes Article « Travellers on the Path of Knowledge Sat, 10 Feb 2007 17:15:15 +0000 http://blog.sunnipath.com/2007/02/06/our-response-to-new-york-times-article/#comment-11 [...] The response: [...] […] The response: […]

]]> By: Seekersdigest.org » Blog Archive » SunniPath Blog - » Our response to the New York Times Article http://blog.sunnipath.com/2007/02/06/our-response-to-new-york-times-article/#comment-6 Seekersdigest.org » Blog Archive » SunniPath Blog - » Our response to the New York Times Article Thu, 08 Feb 2007 16:52:48 +0000 http://blog.sunnipath.com/2007/02/06/our-response-to-new-york-times-article/#comment-6 [...] SunniPath Blog - » Our response to the New York Times Article On Sunday, February 4th, the New York Times published an Article on its front page where the author, NEIL MacFARQUHAR, wrote “Last year, a Sunni student at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor sent a screed against Ashura to the Muslim Student Association’s e-mail message list. The document had been taken off SunniPath.com, one of many Web sites of Islamic teachings that Shiite students said regularly spread hate disguised as religious scholarship.” [...] […] SunniPath Blog - » Our response to the New York Times Article On Sunday, February 4th, the New York Times published an Article on its front page where the author, NEIL MacFARQUHAR, wrote “Last year, a Sunni student at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor sent a screed against Ashura to the Muslim Student Association’s e-mail message list. The document had been taken off SunniPath.com, one of many Web sites of Islamic teachings that Shiite students said regularly spread hate disguised as religious scholarship.” […]

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