Islamic College U.S. Debut
Two American Muslim scholars are prepared to launch the “first four-year accredited Islamic college in the U.S., what some are calling a ‘Muslim Georgetown.’” FoxNews.com reported that American-born Muslim converts Imam Zaid Shakir and Sheik Hamza Yusuf “have spent years planning the school, which will offer a liberal arts education and training in Islamic scholarship.”
The foundation for the college is the Berkeley-based Zaytuna Institute founded in 1996 to promote “classical Muslim scholarship.”
Reports about these men and their efforts say that “in earlier years, Shakir and Yusuf had made some anti-American statements, but that rhetoric is not part of their teaching. The Zaytuna Institute has clips on its website of a lecture by the two scholars called ‘Curing Extremism.’”
Stay tuned.
Deborah Lambert writes the Squeaky Chalk column for Accuracy in Academia.
Deborah Lambert
