Category: Media Appearances

American Muslims And Torture

Why No Muslim Response to Torture?

A Response to Fareed Zakaria

Is Political Islam a Threat to the West? As Hussein Rashid, a PhD candidate in Harvard University’s Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, remarked, “One thing to keep in mind is that ‘Islam doesn’t speak, Muslims do.’ It is Muslims who define what Islam says and does, within broad…Continue readingQuoted: HuffPo on Political Islam

Is Political Islam a Threat to the West? “One thing to keep in mind is that ‘Islam doesn’t speak, Muslims do.’ It is Muslims who define what Islam says and does, within broad parameters. The new generation is engaged, informed, and articulate. It scares the Islamists, because [the new generation]…Continue readingQuoted: AltMuslim on Political Islam

Muslim Leaders of Tomorrow Recalling the 2006 Copenhagen conference, Mr. Rashid noted the diversity of the participants: “You had various Sunni Muslims, various Shia Muslims — progressive, conservative, liberal, reactionary, if you will — but all coming together at the same table to talk about how we can make the…Continue readingUN Press Conference on Muslim Leadership

No link to article. Hussein Rashid, a Harvard University doctoral student who is from New York, joked that he should take Obama as his middle name. “I’m old enough to have been through both Gulf wars, growing up with the name Hussein,” he said. “If people are saying ‘Barack Hussein…Continue readingQuoted: LoHud Journal News: Hussein is not a Slur

Being Muslim in New York

Muslims and the 2008 Presidential Election (More specific link)

Swiftboating Obama: Renowned Muslim Scholar Couldn’t Publish Apostasy Response Shortly after the Op-Ed’s appearance Ingrid Mattson, Daisy Khan, Hussein Rashid, Ali Eteraz and probably numerous other Muslim scholars and writers responded, all noting more or less the same thing: that this is a poor read of Shari’a and that the…Continue readingQuoted: HuffPo on Swiftboating Material