Summary of MFI Activities in 2012

• Minaret of Freedom Institute president Dr. Imad-ad-Dean Ahmad and Araf Romanowsky give contrasting analyses of the meaning of the UN vote on Palestinian non-member state status in this must-hear interview with Voice of Russia's Rob Sachs.
• We answered a middle school student's questions about the death penalty on our Q&A blog.
• Dr. Ahmad was interviewed by Russia Today TV on the Palestinian statehood vote at the UN.

October 2012

• Minaret of Freedom Institute president Dr. Imad-ad-Dean Ahmad's second installment of notes on the International Institute of Islamic Thought conference on Good Governance in Islam: Classical and Contemporary Approaches summarizing the presentation and discussion of Dr. Mahmoud Ayoub's lecture on "Good Governance Between Fiqh and Sharia" was published on our blog.
  

September 2012

• Dr. Ahmad's first installment of notes on the International Institute of Islamic Thought conference on Good Governance in Islam: Classical and Contemporary Approaches summarizing the presentation and discussion of Dr. Yahya Michot's lecture on "Classical Approaches to Ethics and Governance: Ibn Taymiyyah Against Extremism?" was published on our blog.
• Dr. Ahmad was asked for his statements on recent events in Libya by the Dundalk Eagle.
• Dr. Imad-ad-Dean Ahmad and Rev. James Bressard discuss "Economic Justice" on "The Scholar's Chair" TV program.
  
• We participated in a Council on Foreign Relations teleconference on Syria featuring Elliott Abrams and Ed Husain.

August 2012

• Dr. Ahmad was interviewed by Voice of Russia on Violence on Egyptian-Israeli Border.
  

July 2012

• Dr. Ahmad was interviewed by Fars News Agency on the Israeli suicides ("Israeli Suicides Evoke the Memory of the Tunisian Ignition of the Arab Spring")
• Dr. Ahmad was interviewed by Fars News Agency  on the prospects for the fall of the Assad regime ("The Fall of the Assad Regime: Imminent or Just Inevitable?")
• Voice of Russia interviewed Dr. Ahmad on the rapidly deteriorating situation in Syria.

June 2012

• Voice of Russia interviewed Dr. Ahmad on "Mursi to form government 'for all Egyptians."
• The Larousse Dictionary of Liberalism ("Dictionaire du Libéralisme") featuring an article by Dr. Ahmad on Islam appeared in print.

May 2012

• Dr. Ahmad appeared with Hugh Whelchel  of the Reformed Theological Seminary and Ed Hudgins, Director of Advocacy  of the Atlas Society, at a panel discussion of "the Role of Religion in the Public Square" at the Fund for American Studies.

April 2012

• Dr. Ahmad was interviewed byKSA2's on the Muslim Vote in America.
• Dr. Ahmad's article "The FJP Vision Is Inspiring, but  Is It Believable?" was published on our blog.
  
• Voice of Russia interviewed Dr. Ahmad on the Obama meetings with the Muslim Brotherhood.

March 2012

• Dr. Ahmad was interviewed on the Freedom News Hour /Survival Meltdown on allegations that the New York Police Department was carrying out illegal surveillance of Muslim students and their organizations as far removed from their jurisdiction as universities in upstate New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut, indeed all over the northeast with neither cause nor warrant.
• Dr. Ahmad's article "FBI Entrapment and Preemptive Prosecution: The Case of Khalifah Al-Akili" was published on our blog.

February 2012

• Dr. Ahmad was interviewed by Voice of Russia on"Afghanistan Reaction to Burning Korans."
  
• Our volunteer Nancy Kebe returned from her five-week trip to Sierra Leone where she launched our pilot project to educate the people on the actual teachings of Islam regarding the culturally persistent practice of female genital mutilation (FGM). 

January 2012

• Dr. Ahmad was interviewed by Voice of Russia on "Tensions flare around US-EU oil embargo on Iran."
• A piece on "The Truth About Zabiha ('Halal') Meat" was added to our Q&A blog.