First Muslim Heretic Conference, A Celebration of Heresy: Critical Thinking
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We are pleased to invite you to participate in the first conference "A Celebration of Heresy Critical Thinking for Islamic Reform" in Atlanta, GA, USA. This title emphasizes that we seek to promote our commitment to accept dissent and disagreement, because we believe that strong disagreement with the current views, is a necessary pre-requisite for genuine and effective reform. We celebrate heresy and dissent not as ends in themselves, but in order to enable and promote innovative and critical thinking.
This conference convenes March 28-30 2008, at the Holiday Inn Select Atlanta Perimeter ( www.hiatlantaperimeter.com ), 4386 Chamblee Dunwoody Road, Atlanta Georgia 30341, (reservation is under group name NOOR). You can find more information about the subject, themes and organizers of this conference at www.hereticmuslims.com
The conference is organized by a group of Muslim intellectuals who share commitment to the values of pluralism, democracy and respect for human rights. While the organizers and all participants in this conference have different political and intellectual affiliations, this conference will be strictly non-partisan in its objectives and implementation. The shared agenda of all organizers and participants is the sustained and effective promotion of innovative and critical thinking about all issues facing Muslims throughout the world.
This conference is funded by the participants themselves who will cover their own travel and accommodation expenses, in addition to a registration fee of $100. This fee covers all meals, from dinner the evening of Friday March 28, to lunch on Sunday March 30. We have also negotiated a room rate of $72.00/night for participants plus applicable fees. Reservation is under group name NOOR.
Please note that we must receive by 15th March 2008 your registration information and fee of $100 for the expenses noted above. This is necessary for practical reasons, including arrangements for all meals, meeting space and related expenses.
We sincerely hope that you will be able to join us, and please let us know if you have any questions or concerns or like to nominate yourself to participate in a panel.
Organizers
www.hereticmuslims.com/
678-685-8895PS Please forward this to all those who may be interested.
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Inshallah, live podcast, dvd recording, and a book containing the papers will be available.
Peace,
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Wikipedia page on the conference
http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muslim_Heretics_Conference
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Wikipedia page on the conference
http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muslim_Heretics_Conference
I wonder how the conference went. What were the disagreements and what were the agreements. What were the main issues raised and what are the recomendations presented and how was the audience reception.
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The whole conference is taped, the video's will be ready for download in a few weeks.
There were few disagreements, only on details not on goals, and the audience thought it was very succesful. For me it was a very productive experience, especially my conversations with Amina Wadud and Irshad Manji. Manji has changed a lot since her book came out, her ideas are very developed and she has changed the title now from "What is wrong with Islam" to "What is wrong with Islam Today". And it surprised me how similair thinking Amina, Irshad and I shared, it was very nice to create close contact with these people as we all will work more closely together now.
And Edip and I had our laughs D You will see us 2 discussing the conference in the videos.
The overall succes of the conference was the introduction into each other's thinking and to lay down a network of activists who will work more closely together from now on.
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The whole conference is taped, the video's will be ready for download in a few weeks.
There were few disagreements, only on details not on goals, and the audience thought it was very succesful. For me it was a very productive experience, especially my conversations with Amina Wadud and Irshad Manji. Manji has changed a lot since her book came out, her ideas are very developed and she has changed the title now from "What is wrong with Islam" to "What is wrong with Islam Today". And it surprised me how similair thinking Amina, Irshad and I shared, it was very nice to create close contact with these people as we all will work more closely together now.
And Edip and I had our laughs You will see us 2 discussing the conference in the videos.
The overall succes of the conference was the introduction into each other's thinking and to lay down a network of activists who will work more closely together from now on.
group
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Peace all,
The videos of the conferences are being uploaded on the website. Not all of them are ready yet, but 5 are online already
http//tabari.com/blog1/webcast/
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Conference future
The organizers hope to make this an annual event. The conference can be held again in Atlanta, but also places as Canada and even Istanbul in Turkey were heard as possible places for future conferences.
Organizer Fereydoun Taslimi said "We plan to do it every year, a gathering of people who like to discuss issues and keep the momentum and networking of Muslims going."
http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muslim_Heretics_Conference