Is God Punishing the Ummah? - Haroon Moghul

This Khutbah was delivered by Haroon Moghul at the Islamic Center at New York University on November 19th, 2010. To hear more of our lectures or to subscribe to our podcast, please visit icnyu.org

Speaker Bio: Haroon Moghul is Executive Director of The Maydan Institute. He served as Director of Public Relations at the Islamic Center at New York University (NYU) from 2007 to 2009. Mr. Moghul holds an M.A. in Middle East and South Asian Studies from Columbia University, where he is currently a Ph.D. candidate. His fields of study include Muslim nationalism in South Asia, colonial and post-colonial Islamic politics and the development of the Indian Ocean economy. Mr. Moghul graduated from NYU in 2002 with a B.A. in Middle Eastern Studies and Philosophy, and a minor in Arabic. He has also has studied Persian, Punjabi, Hindi and Urdu. He was nominated for the 2009 Presidential Award for Best Teaching by a Graduate Student at Columbia University.

Mr. Moghul's sermons and lectures are included in the Islamic Center at NYU's new media services, which average over 30,000 unique downloads per month from over 120 countries. His academic engagements include Columbia University, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Michigan, the University of California-Berkeley, and the University of Minnesota. Mr. Moghul has been interviewed by or otherwise featured on CNN, al-Hurra, The History Channel, ABC-7, Voice of America, National Public Radio (NPR), UN Radio (Arabic), The New Yorker, TIME, the Guardian, and The National (Abu Dhabi).

Formerly contributing editor and end-page columnist for Islamica Magazine, Mr. Moghul maintains a popular blog, Avari, which won several Brass Crescent Awards, including wins for Best Muslim Blog, Best Thinker and Best Writing. His essays and articles have been published in a variety of international media, including Pakistan's Dawn and The Friday Times, as well as American media, including Tikkun and Religion Dispatches. He prepares policy reports and analyses for Tabah Foundation, an Abu-Dhabi based think-tank devoted to bridging Muslim tradition and contemporary Western politics and thought. Mr. Moghul's first analytic brief, published in English and Arabic, considered the role of Muslim scholars in encouraging dialogue with the United States. His first novel, The Order of Light, was released by Penguin Global in 2006. A French translation, Comment j'ai échappé à l'Ordre de lumière, was published by Cherche Midi in 2007.

Haroon Moghul has been selected as one of over 500 global Muslim Leaders of Tomorrow (MLT).

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[MilanpavicBelgium]

Read the Sira, Sunna and Hadith, mate. It is written countless times that Mo was a cruel criminal. Why do you keep fooling yourselves with this pseudo-religion?

[codenamecommando]

@MrStudent14 I hope you realize that we shouldn't use words that hurt... and that whatever you say in real life, or social networking, may follow you for a very long time... Great video fakeheadline. I think Jesus may have had something to say on the issue in Luke 6:43-44. Peace.