Burke Lecture: The Challenge of Islamophobia

UCLA Professor Abou El Fadl is a major contemporary Islamic thinker, a strong supporter of human rights, and Americas leading authority on Islamic law, who works to bring about constructive transformations in Muslim political theology. Series: Burke Lectureship on Religion & Society [7/2008] [Humanities] [Show ID: 14332]

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• Fadl
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[dadouthoughts]

I read two of his books: "The great theft, wrestling Islam from extremists" and "The search for beauty in Islam". They are excellent books that have great influence in my understanding of Islam.

[spinhook888]

This is an important message that needs to be heard.

[TheScholarofthehouse]

If you would like to see more of Dr. Abou El Fadl visit Scholar of The House's channel. We will be uploading videos of his regularly.

[moriart7]

@JOSHUAofNUN Chapter 9, verse 4: "Except those of the idolaters with whom you have made an agreement, then they have not failed you in anything and have not backed up anyone against you; so fulfil their agreement to the end of their term. Surely Allah loves those who keep their duty."

I'm not Muslim, but don't tell people to cherry pick verses. There's good and bad in every religious text.

[Silverblood9]

@kawaiigardiner Yes, from his phonological features and lexical structures specifically the heightened presence of discourse particles, it appears that this gentleman has a mild form of Broca's Aphasia, which as you have said may have been due to his stroke.

[kawaiigardiner]

@haniyyahn From what I understand he has had a stroke which explains his speaking issues.

[JOSHUAofNUN]

@dadout it mystifies me why people don't just read the Quran to find out about Islam. I recommend not the first chapter which is 'nice' but the 9th chapter which shows the mentality of Islam and Muhammad after he had attained political and military power. Notice how in verse 1 he abitrarily declares all treaties "void" and then proceeds to announce all non Muslims will be henceforth killed.

See verse 29 and 30 and ask how these might impact Muslims today ?

[ManACanadian]

This is indeed a courageous man. Giving the truth to those Americans who are willing to listen. Before people begin accusing me of hating Americans, I would like to say that oppression by violence is not limited to the American Empire. Just look at the Arab countries or China.

What I like about Abou El Fadl is the strength of his intellectual reasoning and honesty. There is room for improvement on the delivery side of things!

[djoody1111]

go to hell mister hater , so you coming to my country with heavy wopen and you kill many people with no reason at all , and you think we ll tell you welcom ?shit on USA

[AbtinX]

To have a truly native culture, we would have to do away with American television, Japanese anime and gaming. We would have to stop promoting English studies over Swedish (at the University, 8 out of 10 books are studied in English). As muslims, we only try to live in a different culture, we adapt and so do our neighbours. But that is the way of societies, and there is the need for multiculturalism since even the native Swedish have different cultures. I'm not native to Sweden though.

[AbtinX]

Well, this is an interesting discussion. I can tell you what Swedish culture and life here is like. Before our time, the French and the German were the greatest influence shaping Swedish culture, today it is American culture that shapes Sweden, not Islam, or arab/persian/turkish culture. So the largest influence on this countrys culture is Japanese and American. We are only a small group in this nation, and we don't "dilute" anyones culture with our presence.

[midnight9wanderer]

I think you have every right to live in Sweden and worship etc as you like. However, I think Sweden should be Native Swedish in its orientation, socially, culturally, and ideologically. I dont think it should promote the diluting of Swedish identity. You should not be restricted from having your own either. What is happening is that Swedish public policy is deliberately undermining Swedish identity and promoting some 'multicultural' monstrosity that is implicitly and explicitly anti-Swedish.