Beyond Radical Islam Session 4 |
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Saturday, April 17, 2004
2:00 PM
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Saturday, April 17, 2004
4:30 PM
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| THE CENTER FOR ISLAM, DEMOCRACY AND THE FUTURE OF THE MUSLIM WORLD, in conjunction with THE LEFRAK FORUM/SYMPOSIUM ON SCIENCE, REASON AND MODERN DEMOCRACY, cordially invites you to a major three-day conference entitled: "Beyond Radical Islam?"Session 4: Roundtable Discussion on Islam in the WestMillions of Muslims live in relative prosperity and affluence in Western liberal democracies. What civil associations have these communities established within their respective homelands and with other religious groups? What policies have Western governments adopted with respect to Muslim communities? What policies should they adopt? Will future generations of Muslims in the West seek to embrace or withdraw from Western life? Insofar as these communities have experienced life in liberal democracies firsthand, how might they contribute to the development of a liberal alternative to radical Islam around the world? THIS SESSION IS CHAIRED BY: Eric Brown Mr. Brown is a Research Fellow for the Center on Islam, Democracy and the Future of the Muslim World at Hudson Institute.DISCUSSANTS FOR THIS SESSION ARE: Peter Skerry A professor of political science at Boston College and senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, his research focuses on social policy, racial and ethnic politics, and immigration. Dr. Skerry was formerly a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and a research fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, and has also served as legislative director for the late Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan. His writings on politics, racial and ethnic issues, immigration and social policy have appeared in a variety of scholarly and general interest publications, including Society, Publius, The Journal of Policy History, The New Republic, Slate, The Public Interest, The Wilson Quarterly, and The National Review, and he is the author of Mexican Americans: The Ambivalent Minority. His current project is a study of the social, cultural, and political integration of Muslims and Arabs in the United States.Shaykh Kabbani A Sufi scholar and chairman of the Islamic Supreme Council of America, a Muslim civic organization that hosts conferences, engages in inter-religious dialogue, and promotes traditional, moderate Islamic views within US and foreign policymaking channels, Shaykh Kabbani's efforts to unite, educate and serve Muslims have led him to found several national organizations, including the Kamilat Muslim Women's Association. He holds a degree in Shariah, and has also studied medicine in Louvain, Belgium, and Islamic spirituality under two internationally renowned spiritual guides of the worldwide Naqshbandi Sufi Order.Asma Afsaruddin (Biography listed in Session 3.)Hillel Fradkin (Biography listed in Session 2.)Abdulwahab Alkebsi A program officer for the Middle East and North Africa at the National Endowment for Democracy, in 2002, Mr. Alkebsi served as Executive Director of the Center for the Study of Islam & Democracy, a non-profit think tank, based in Washington DC, dedicated to studying Islamic and democratic political thought and merging them into a modern Islamic democratic discourse.A PDF version of the transcript is available here. Support for this conference has been provided by James Madison College and the Center for European and Russian Studies at Michigan State University. |
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