NY Event: Frontline Pakistan: The Struggle with Militant Islam - 3/13

Asia Society cordially invites you to

Frontline Pakistan: The Struggle with Militant Islam

Featuring
Zahid Hussain, Pakistan correspondent for the Times of London, the Wall
Street Journal, and Newsweek.
Hasan-Askari Rizvi, Pakistan Studies Scholar, Johns Hopkins University
(moderator)

After September 11, 2001, President Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan vowed to
fight extremism in his country and has since established himself as a key
ally in America's "global war on terror." But as veteran Pakistani
journalist and commentator Zahid Hussain reveals in this book, President
Musharraf is in an impossible position. Based on exclusive interviews
with key players and grassroots radicals, Zahid Hussain, exposes the
threads of Pakistan's complex political power web and the consequences of
President Musharraf's decision to support the U.S.'s drive against
jihadism, which essentially took Pakistan to war with itself.

"Frontline Pakistan is the first serious exposure of the rise and
continuation of Islamic extremism in Pakistan. Zahid Hussain shows the
links between the major jihadi groups of Pakistan, Al Qaeda, and the ISI
with a degree of detail not seen in any Western writing on the subject"
-Ahmed Rashid, author of Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and
Fundamentalism in Central America

Tuesday, March 13, 2007
6:30 - 8:00 p.m.
Asia Society, 725 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10021

Copies of Frontline Pakistan: The Struggle with Militant Islam will be
available for purchase and signing.

Policy programs at the Asia Society are generously supported by the
Nicholas Platt Endowment for Public Policy.

Please Register in Advance:
$7 Member, $10 Nonmember

To register ONLINE: https://tickets.asiasociety.org/public/default.asp
To register by FAX (credit card orders only please): 212-517-8315
To register by PHONE call (M-F 10am to 5pm): 212-517-ASIA

No cancellations, exchanges or refunds

NY Event: NYU Wagner's INTERSECTIONS featuring Irshad Manji - 3/5

NYU Wagner's INTERSECTIONS
with Lesley Stahl, 60 Minutes & CBS News Correspondent

featuring

Irshad Manji, Author of the National Bestseller, "The Trouble with Islam
Today"

Ms. Manji will preview and discuss her new PBS documentary, "Faith without
Fear" which is based upon her national bestseller "The Trouble with Islam
Today". Her film addresses the challenges of being a progressive Muslim
woman and the need to voice her opinion even though it is often met with
fierce opposition.

Book signing and reception to follow.

Monday, March 5, 2007
5 - 6:30 pm
Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service,
New York University
The Puck Building's Skylight Ballroom, 7th Floor
295 Lafayette Street, NY, NY 10012

RSVP online: https://www.nyu.edu/wagner/events/
Space is limited.

NY event: ISLAMIC ETHICAL PRINCIPLES AND GLOBALIZATION: A Path to Partnership - 2/27

ISLAMIC ETHICAL PRINCIPLES AND GLOBALIZATION: A Path to Partnership
between America and the Islamic World

Tuesday, February 27, 2007
06:00 PM - 07:15 PM

A Lecture by Farooq Kathwari, Chairman and CEO of Ethan Allen Inc.

Hosted by New York University's Dialogues: Islamic World-U.S.-The West and
the Stern School of Business.

Cantor Board Room of NYU's Kaufman Management Center (Room 11-75, 44 West
4th Street, New York, New York).

Please RSVP by Monday, February 26, 2007.

Farooq Kathwari is chairman, CEO and president of Ethan Allen Interiors
Inc., a leading home furnishings manufacturer and retailer. In addition to
overseeing this major U.S. corporation, he also lends his considerable
leadership skills to humanitarian activities, advocating for human rights,
promoting tolerance and leading international efforts for conflict
resolution.

For event details go to http://islamuswest.org/events_Islam_and_the_West/

This event is free and open to the public.

To RSVP for ISLAMIC ETHICAL PRINCIPLES AND GLOBALIZATION: A Path to
Partnership between America and the Islamic World, please go to
http://www.nyu.edu/rsvp/event.php?e_id=143

For more information: Nyasa Hickey nlh2@nyu.edu
(212) 998-8693

What the West Can Learn From Islam: Article by TARIQ RAMADAN

I've become a great fan of Ramadan's articles. While I Have yet to read any of his books, his articles have been engaging, thought-provoking and comprehensive. His knowledge and expertise would have made Muslim America, and America in general, better off - had the Government not interfered and denied him entry numerous times.

No doubt, we live in troubled times, but when we have the opportunity to engage in dialogue, I implore all my readers, to please grasp and cling to that opportunity and take full advantage of it. Modern technology and civilization has been kind to us. Let's not deny ourselves the pleasure and good fortune of doing without some "spin-offs" such as inter-religious and interfaith communication.

With that, I present to you Tariq Ramadan's most recent article, "What the West Can Learn From Islam" and copied below is a teaser that will hopefully compel you to read further...

In late September, I finally received a response to the question I had been asking the Bush administration for more than two years: Why was my work visa revoked in late July 2004, just days before I was to take up a position as a professor of Islamic studies and the Henry Luce chair of religion, conflict, and peace building at the University of Notre Dame? Initially neither I nor the university was told why; officials only made a vague reference to a provision of the U.S. Patriot Act that allows the government to exclude foreign citizens who have "endorsed or espoused terrorism." Though the U.S. Department of Homeland Security eventually cleared me of all charges of links with terrorist groups, today it points to another reason to keep me out of the country: donations I made totaling approximately $900 to a Swiss Palestinian-support group that is now on the American blacklist. A letter I received from the American Embassy in Switzerland, where I hold citizenship, asserts that I "should reasonably have known" that the group had ties with Hamas.

What American officials do not say is that I myself had brought those donations to their attention, and that the organization in question continues to be officially recognized by the Swiss authorities (my donations were duly registered on my income-tax declaration). More important still is the fact that I contributed to the organization between 1998 and 2002, more than a year before it was blacklisted by the United States. It seems, according to American officials, that I "should reasonably have known" about the organization's alleged activities before the Homeland Security Department itself knew!

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February 15th

Fordham Global Law Society presents: How Can the International Community Help Iraq?

Speaker: H.E. Ambassador Hamid Al Bayati, Permanent Representative of Iraq to the United Nations
Moderator: Professor Paolo Galizzi, Fordham University School of Law

Location: Fordham University School of Law
140 West 62nd Steet (McNally Ampitheater)
Reception to follow
Time: 4:00 p.m.

Free and no RSVP required

February 22nd

UNA NY invites you to hear James Taub, author of “The Best Intentions: Kofi Annan and the UN in the Era of American World Power”

Location: Consulate General of the Republic of Poland (233 Madison Avenue @ 37th Street)
Time: 6:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.

Event cost: Free

RSVP to info@unanyc.org

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