Michael Muhammad Knight, called the Jack Kerouac and Hunter S. Thompson of American Islam, discusses visiting holy sites in the Middle East in search of a personal relationship to Islam. In his bookJourney to the End of Islam, he describes struggling to separate the spiritual from the political Islam in the United States and around the world.
Event: Michael Muhammed Knight will be reading and signing books, followed by a very special performance by The Kominas, as part of Muslim Punk Night at the Bowery
Wednesday, January 6, at 10:00 pm
Bowery Poetry Club
308 Bowery, between Houston and Bleecker
More information here.
Guests:
Michael Muhammad Knight
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Comments [6]
Even the "prophet" mohamed couldn't think of another word but "slave" to refer to black people. Neither Jesus nor the Buddha nor Abraham assembled armies to slaughter people - but Mohamed did.
Why Sharia? Why not Halacha (Jewish Law) instead? After all, Sharia is only a very bad knockoff.
I am a regular WNYC listener and member. Why is there so much worry throughout the station about being "predjudiced" towards Muslims? It may be a problem, but doesn't compare with the fact that in the Arab world they are our sworn enemies and they make no bones about it. The Arab Musilim world renouces the "west" but wants all the technology (re: weapons) cars, and their selective "west" while still damning so many more important things like a democratic vision of human rights
religion = fantasy
To each their own. Islam is as much or as little as you want it to be.
Islam has a checkered history in the horn of Africa and in much of East Africa. Muslims from middle eastern cultures had dominated and at times enslaved black Africans in this region. Muslims also brought many modern ideas like cities etc. Could your guest comment on this, perhaps under-reported, history.
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