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| Founders, students defend Islamic college in Berkeley |
| 2010-07-19 |
| The first Islamic college in the U.S. opened this summer in Berkeley, CA. Conservative critics have already lambasted Zaytuna College as a center for "indoctrination," but its founders say it's about time the millions of Muslims in the United States have a center for religious studies. |
| Posted by:ryuge |
| #2 Let's examine the place and the staff for the quality of scholarship -- course descriptions, research, publications, the usual metrics. Compare it to the more prestigious centers of Islamic studies at various universities around the country. See here for a list. Or is this meant to be a madrassah for adults to spend a year or several memorizing Quran, hadiths, and sunna, before competing with imams supplied by Pakistan, Malaysia, and Saudi Arabia? |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2010-07-19 11:47 |
| #1 At Berkeley? I guess they can learn to smoke pot. |
| Posted by: Mike Ramsey 2010-07-19 07:44 |