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Muslims Envisioning Peace, Security, and Nonviolence




Beloved Friend and Reader,

Assalamu `Alaykum!

Is Islam's message that of violence? Or can Muslims be agents of peace & nonviolence?

In the wake of September 11th and the War, we've compiled for you some of the best Muslim voices of peace from six years of publishing Assalamu ``Alaykum, MPF's newsletter of peacemaking.

Yours in peace,
The folks at MPF
mpf@forusa.org


6 ways to become a Muslim peacebuilder
What you need to do to build peace and undo violence in your family and community, locally and globally.

Peace is the basic spirit of Islam
Nonviolence and peacebuilding was at the very core and essence of the Prophetic vision, explains Giasuddin Ahmad.

Taught by the Pen
An educated and literate Muslimah has always been an Islamic ideal, says Sadida Athaullah.

The Islamic Response
“My problem,” he said, “is that we can never find an Islamic response. I can find a Christian response to the death penalty, or to nuclear weapons, or a Jewish response—but where is the Islamic response?”


Wage peaceful war on poisons
I am writing to the Ummah of the world in the belief that it is time to witness to the world the sacred commitment to all life that is at the heart of Islam, writes Sister Penomee .


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