A Critical Look at Radical Islam

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Monday, September 15, 2008

The Center for Islamic Pluralism (CIP), a Washington-based moderate Muslim organization established in 2004, will hold two events on September 23, 2008, both in the Nation's Capital, offering a critical look at radical Islam

The three participants will be:
-- Stephen Suleyman Schwartz, CIP Executive Director and author of the new Doubleday book, The Other Islam: Sufism and the Road to Global Harmony.

Schwartz published the best-selling The Two Faces of Islam: Saudi Fundamentalism and Its Role in Terrorism, also from Doubleday, in 2002.

-- Dr. Qanta Ahmed, a medical doctor and author of In the Land of Invisible Women, published by Sourcebooks, and describing her experiences as a highly-qualified physician in the Saudi kingdom.

In the Land of Invisible Women is a personal, deeply affecting, and exhaustively detailed account of the author's experience as a female professional in the desert domain. Dr. Ahmed's chronicle is a valuable record of daily life in repressive Saudi Arabia.

-- Imaad Malik, CIP Fellow, coauthor of a new Center Report, Black America, Prisons, and Radical Islam. This extensive and fact-filled document explains the problem of radical Islam in American correctional systems and the history of Islamic influences in black American culture.

The report outlines a bold challenge to U.S. government failures in addressing this issue.

The first event will be held at 10 AM-11:30 AM. Stephen Schwartz will speak on "The Other Euro-Islam: Turkish and Balkan Sufism," hosted by the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Southeast Europe Project, 6th Floor Boardroom, Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center, 1300 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20004-3027. Tel. 202/691-4000.

The second event will take place at 3 PM-5 PM. Schwartz will comment on The Other Islam, Dr. Ahmed on In the Land of Invisible Women, and Imaad Malik on Black America, Prisons, and Radical Islam, at the National Press Club, 13th Floor, Edward R. Murrow Room, 529 14th St. NW, Washington, DC 20045. Tel. 202/662-7957.

Admission to both events is free. The Other Islam and In the Land of Invisible Women will be available for purchase and signing at both events. Black America, Prisons, and Radical Islam is a free, downloadable .pdf document posted at the Center's website, http://www.islamicpluralism.org/.

CIP may be contacted by e-mail at schwartz@islamicpluralism.org.