“How to get religious accommodation in the public school system: a 6-step guide”
The Islamic information website Sound Vision posts a page describing six steps to getting religious accommodation in the public schools.
Faith: Islam
“Schools juggle holidays for different faiths”
Read a July 21, 2006, Associated Press story posted by USA Today about public schools juggling the holidays of various religions, including Islam.
Peter Skerry
Peter Skerry is a political science professor at Boston College. During the 2006-07 school year, Skerry was a visiting scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation, where he worked on a book about how a distinct Muslim identity is emerging in the United States – influenced by the presence of Muslims from Arab, South Asian and African-American backgrounds.
Islamic Society of Central Florida
Imam Muhammad Musri leads the Islamic Society of Central Florida, a mosque in Orlando whose members come from more than 30 countries. Located in a mostly Hispanic neighborhood, the mosque is seeing an increasing number of Latino converts and now offers a Spanish-language program for women.
“Bioethics for clinicians: 21. Islamic bioethics”
Read an article on Islamic bioethics from 2001 in the Canadian Medical Association Journal, by A. Daar and A. Khitamy of Sultan Qaboos University in Oman.
Mahmood Monshipouri
Mahmood Monshipouri is co-editor of the Muslim World Journal of Human Rights, based in Berkely, Calif., and professor of international relations at San Francisco State University.
Khaleel Mohammed
Khaleel Mohammed is an assistant professor of religion at San Diego State University who specializes in Islam, Islamic law and comparative religion. He teaches courses in world religions, the Quran, sex and gender in Islam, and Islamic bioethics. He has been trained as a jurist in both the Sunni and Shiite schools and posts his […]
The National Religious Campaign Against Torture
The National Religious Campaign Against Torture is a coalition of more than 100 national, regional, and local religious and secular organizations.
Ethnic minorities
What special issues and concerns do religion writers keep in mind when writing about the religions of ethnic minorities? By Kim Sue Lia Perkes Freelance Writer A quick review of the most recent U.S. Census shows how much the demographics of the United States have changed. Whereas white Americans were once the nation’s majority, the […]