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Islam and Identity

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New York, NY 10019

To what extent is “Muslim” an identity? and how does the conception of “identity” help or hinder our understanding of the faith and its challenges? How do political forces play into the increasing adoption and promotion of this identity.

Speakers

Maryam Namazie

Maryam Namazie is an Iranian-born writer and activist. She is the Spokesperson for Fitnah – Movement for Women’s Liberation, One Law for All and the Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain. She hosts a weekly television programme in Persian and English called Bread and Roses.

She is on the International Advisory Board of the Raif Badawi Foundation for Freedom, Euromind and Feminist Dissent; National Secular Society Honorary Associate; Honorary Associate of Rationalist International; Emeritus Member of the Secular Humanist League of Brazil; a Patron of London Black Atheists and Pink Triangle Trust, Humanist Laureate at the International Academy of Humanism and a columnist for the Freethinker.

Sarah Haider

Sarah is an American writer, speaker, and activist. Born in Pakistan and raised in Texas, Sarah spent her early youth as a practicing Shia Muslim. In her late-teens, she began to read the Quran critically and left religion soon after.

In 2013, she co-founded Ex-Muslims of North America, where she advocates for the acceptance of religious dissent and works to create local support communities for those who have left Islam.

In addition to atheism, Sarah is particularly passionate about civil liberties and women’s rights.

Afzal Upal

Dr. Muhammad Afzal Upal is a cognitive scientist of religion and world’s foremost expert on the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at. His account of growing up as the son of an Ahmadiyya missionary in the movement’s headquarters in Rabwah, Pakistan and a cognitive analysis of what makes the movement’s ideas so attractive to some people is published by DeGruyter Press as “Moderate Fundamentalists: Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at in the lens of cognitive science of religion.”

 











When: Sat., Dec. 2, 2017 at 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

LOCATION: EXACT ADDRESS TO BE SENT BY EMAIL TO RSVP’s DAY OF
New York, NY 10019

To what extent is “Muslim” an identity? and how does the conception of “identity” help or hinder our understanding of the faith and its challenges? How do political forces play into the increasing adoption and promotion of this identity.

Speakers

Maryam Namazie

Maryam Namazie is an Iranian-born writer and activist. She is the Spokesperson for Fitnah – Movement for Women’s Liberation, One Law for All and the Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain. She hosts a weekly television programme in Persian and English called Bread and Roses.

She is on the International Advisory Board of the Raif Badawi Foundation for Freedom, Euromind and Feminist Dissent; National Secular Society Honorary Associate; Honorary Associate of Rationalist International; Emeritus Member of the Secular Humanist League of Brazil; a Patron of London Black Atheists and Pink Triangle Trust, Humanist Laureate at the International Academy of Humanism and a columnist for the Freethinker.

Sarah Haider

Sarah is an American writer, speaker, and activist. Born in Pakistan and raised in Texas, Sarah spent her early youth as a practicing Shia Muslim. In her late-teens, she began to read the Quran critically and left religion soon after.

In 2013, she co-founded Ex-Muslims of North America, where she advocates for the acceptance of religious dissent and works to create local support communities for those who have left Islam.

In addition to atheism, Sarah is particularly passionate about civil liberties and women’s rights.

Afzal Upal

Dr. Muhammad Afzal Upal is a cognitive scientist of religion and world’s foremost expert on the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at. His account of growing up as the son of an Ahmadiyya missionary in the movement’s headquarters in Rabwah, Pakistan and a cognitive analysis of what makes the movement’s ideas so attractive to some people is published by DeGruyter Press as “Moderate Fundamentalists: Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at in the lens of cognitive science of religion.”

 

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