In addition to traditional Islamic institutions, there have been established in Western countries some facilities to train religious teachers how to enable Muslims to interact with modernity. The California-based Zaytuna Institute’s seminary program seeks to provide “intellectual tools and understanding to effectively engage Western society and thought.” The Muslim College and the Institute for Ismaili Studies, both in London, seek to educate teachers who can enable Muslims to live productive lives in the contemporary world.
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Dr. Karim, Congratulations on such a wonderful article. The issues you indicated are in existence even in Ottawa after having a young Imam in Ottawa’s main Mosque. On march 19th an email was sent to Ottawa Citizen about the concerns of muslim youth in Ottawa, you must have read that and I quote here:
“A small but outspoken group of young Ottawa Muslims want the city’s new imam replaced with someone who speaks their language, literally and figuratively”.
I appreciate your view point and necessity of interaction between religious leaders and the commons.
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