Dawud Walid
Dawud Walid
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Reconciliation comes through education and dialogue. This helps us dispel ignorance and allows us to appreciate one another's humanity.
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This kind of violence is contrary to the teachings of the Prophet Muhammad. These cartoons should never have been printed, but the Prophet Muhammad said that we should not reciprocate by returning evil for evil. We are to reply to evil only with good.
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Malcolm soon became a burglar, a drug dealer and a drug user. He was caught by the police and received a 10 year prison sentence.
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The university needs to take appropriate disciplinary action in this case to demonstrate through its actions that anti-Muslim bigotry will not be tolerated on campus.
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We believe that through discussion and respectful dialogue, this will turn people who have bad feelings about others into possible friends. People are the enemies of that which they do not know.
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We feel that by actually making the effort, not just talking about it here, but also going to Iraq and getting that information to the Iraqi news outlets and conveying it in the Arabic language will be a more effective.
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We say that the new year is a revered moment, a sacred time in Islam. People normally do not take off work or school, but at night there usually are programs in the mosques that many people attend. After prayers, the imams will talk about the significance of this month for all Muslims.
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We are disturbed by the vandalism of the mosque and the high frequency of attacks that have taken place in a very short time span.