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Humantrustees.org aims to foster understanding and cooperation between Muslims and Christians so as to empower them to live up to their God-given calling as “trustees of the earth.” This Christian initiative seeks to accomplish this goal through scholarship, teaching, news commentary, and networking between scholars, members of both communities, and with anyone else who is passionate about peace and human flourishing.
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16 November 2014

Finding Solidarity in an Unequal World (1)

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“Migrants rest after they were rescued by the Libyan coastguard when their boat sank off the coastal town of Garabulli on 15 September 2014.” Photograph: Mahmud Turkia/AFP/Getty Images
In a twist of events one could hardly imagine in a horror film, a boat owned by smugglers deliberately destroyed their human cargo. They rammed into a rickety boat jammed with four or five hundred migrants (who had paid them a minimum of $2000), capsizing it instantly. Over one hundred children and many more adults perished in the instants that…
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31 October 2014

Islam Today: Who Calls the Shots?

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“Egyptian Grand Imam of Al-Azhar Ahmed al-Tayeb in Cairo January 2, 2011. REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El-Ghany." Note that he was listed as second most influential Muslim in the world by this year's issue of the Muslim 500, right after King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia
Muslims often say – with a twinge of pride, I’ve noticed – that there is no clergy in Islam. Well, there is no pope and each mosque is fairly independent; that said, the more conservative ones in this country do their best to import a good imam from Egypt or elsewhere. Also, Iran’s constitution calls for the supremacy of the…
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16 September 2014

Things Not As They Seem

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“Tens of thousands of Egyptians swarmed the Tahrir Square in down town Cairo on Friday (March 14, 2011), in a march aimed at solidifying national unity between Muslims and Christians in Egypt.” May it happen once again!!
The above title could be said about much of life. As St. Paul writes, “We see through a glass darkly.” Here I want to discuss current events in the Mideast, first in Egypt, and then the issue of the Islamic State. Looking through the eyes of western media outlets and consulting insider sources yield quite a different picture. Consulting the…
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17 August 2014

Justice Breakdown: End Times?

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No caption - "Islamic Radicalism and the End of Times," by Mbaye Lo
 A couple of weeks ago Duke University Arabic professor Mbaye Bashir Lo attended Friday prayers at the Grand Mosque of Niamey, Niger. Originally from Sudan, he’s doing research on militant Islam in West Africa this summer. What he heard the preacher say startled him: “These are troubling times: there is killing everywhere, and certainly, these are signs of the end…
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