Zaid Shakir - Face to Face with Islamophobia

Zaid ShakirNovember 24, 20180 comments

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In this powerful talk, Imam Zaid Shakir responds to Islamophobia with personal testimony, poetic reflection, and prophetic wisdom. Drawing on his own family history — rooted in the African American experience of slavery — he challenges the fear and ignorance that fuel hatred, while calling on people of all faiths to uphold shared principles of justice, mercy, and love for all humanity. Grounding his message in a key hadith on universal mercy, Imam Zaid affirms that those who live by principled faith will ultimately prevail.

Imam Zaid Shakir is an American scholar and co-founder of Zaytuna College in Berkeley, California, the first accredited Muslim liberal arts college in the United States. Born in Berkeley and raised in housing projects in Georgia and Connecticut, he embraced Islam in 1977 while serving in the United States Air Force. He earned degrees in international relations and political science, then studied Arabic and the Islamic sciences for years in Egypt, Syria, and Morocco. A former imam of Masjid Al-Islam in New Haven, he teaches at Zaytuna and lectures nationally on Islamic spirituality, social justice, and the Black American Muslim experience. He is regularly listed among the most influential Muslims in the world.

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