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Countering Extremism through Youth and Women's Leadership in Islam | |
Date | Thursday September 24 |
Time | 7:00 AM - 9:00 AM |
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Location Details | |
CIIS Main Campus 1453 Mission Street San Francisco, CA 94103 415-575-6175 http://www.ciis.edu/publicprograms |
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Event Type | Speaker |
Organizer/Author | Clara Lindstrom |
publicprograms [at] ciis.edu | |
Phone | 415-575-6175 |
Daisy Khan is Executive Director of the American Society for Muslim Advancement (ASMA), a New York-based non-profit dedicated to strengthening an expression of Islam based on cultural and religious harmony and building bridges between Muslims and the general public. At ASMA, she has led numerous interfaith events like the theater production Same Difference and the Cordoba Bread Fest banquet. She has launched two groundbreaking flagship programs: the Muslim Leaders of Tomorrow (MLT) and Women's Islamic Initiative in Spirituality and Equity (WISE), global movements to empower Muslim youth and women. She is a weekly columnist for the Washington Post's "On Faith" and is frequently quoted in print publications such as Time Magazine, Newsweek, Chicago Tribune, and the New York Times.
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Added to the calendar on Saturday Sep 19th, 2009 9:34 AM
http://www.ciis.edu/publicprograms |
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Thursday Sep 24th, 2009 4:58 PM
To paraphrase a famous AmeriKKKan politician's speech writer:
Extremism in the fight against race, sex, national, class and caste oppression is no vice.
Moderation in the pursuit of liberation from capitalism and imperialism is no virtue.
Extremism in the fight against race, sex, national, class and caste oppression is no vice.
Moderation in the pursuit of liberation from capitalism and imperialism is no virtue.
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