Good sunday morning, start with the breaking knew the deteriorating situation in iraq. This morning there are reports of a Suicide Attack in baghdad and hislamic terrorists are threatening the iraqi capital, though the advance has slowed. The u. S. Aircraft carrier george h. W. Bush, is in the persian gulf. Richard engel has covered the region for almost two decades. He is in irbil in Northern Iraq. Despite this mornings attack in baghdad, the slowing of the terrorist advance has lessened some of that tension there, correct . It has, david, just yesterday, fierce across this country that baghdad could fall, that the sunni extremists could anchor the city and take it, collapsed government. Krit clirks starting to see the shiite militias take to the sweet sweet. The shiites found their the fog it doesnt seem at this stage that baghdad is going to fall imminently, instead, looks like they are heading into a long, sectarian fight. The advance of sunni fanatics from an al qaeda offshoot sta
Good sunday morning, start with the breaking knew the deteriorating situation in iraq. This morning there are reports of a Suicide Attack in baghdad and hislamic terrorists are threatening the iraqi capital, though the advance has slowed. The u. S. Aircraft carrier george h. W. Bush, is in the persian gulf. Richard engel has covered the region for almost two decades. He is in irbil in Northern Iraq. Despite this mornings attack in baghdad, the slowing of the terrorist advance has lessened some of that tension there, correct . It has, david, just yesterday, fierce across this country that baghdad could fall, that the sunni extremists could anchor the city and take it, collapsed government. Krit clirks starting to see the shiite militias take to the sweet sweet. The shiites found their the fog it doesnt seem at this stage that baghdad is going to fall imminently, instead, looks like they are heading into a long, sectarian fight. The advance of sunni fanatics from an al qaeda offshoot sta
Thank you so much, brother ali. So something that kind of ties in to what weve heard so far from the panelists, its great we have all these ideas of whats going on with culture, where he were to go with it, but there seems to be a huge disconnect between the generation thats coming up not as generation y. , a lot of those folks have it known life before the internet. They socialize and interact online. There are lots of selfmade facebook the imams, and then theres this whole new trend know what its like someone gets so many followers and all of a sudden theyre an expert, and authority in people turn to them. So where is the solution is to i dont know if i would call it a crisis but it just seems that there is a huge disconnect and there needs to be some way to resolve it and not ignore it. Getting things right and really doing the rigorous work of that nature and that may, and that pursuit makes us maybe sometimes afraid of, in essence, what i would call the marketplace of artistic ide
Them speak as much as possible and if the conversation dies down, your questions will be feel free o me and to throw anything in there to keep them on their toes. If there is anything you want to know, now is the time to ask that question because i will make sure to read it out loud. How is everyone doing . Good. It took me two hours to get here from the airport which is as long as it took me to fly here. That is generation rise on an american scale. The purpose of tonights conversation is to talk about the issues, dilemmas, opportunities and challenges facing muslim communities going forward. What im going to to is start the conversation off by introducing to my left who many of you may have seen or heard the political director of the huffing on the post and presenter of head to head if you have not seen it, you should. He has published an electronic book on the financial crisis. Matthew wrote the British Muslim Community has had a tortured relationship with politicians in recent year
Justify been watching prime ministers questions. In a few moments, a discussion on the future of islam in america. Then the political ramifications of the israelipalestinian conflict. Later, a look at u. S. Russia relations. The Islamic Society of north america held their recent convention recently in north america. A discussion on challenges in the muslimamerican community. Its an hour and 25 minutes. Be. Welcome to generation rise. I am the moderator or the instigate or the. My job is to get the conversation going. We have a very distinguished panel here. Im going to try to let each of them speak as much as possible and if the conversation dies down, your questions will be feel free o me and to throw anything in there to keep them on their toes. If there is anything you want to know, now is the time to ask that question because i will make sure to read it out loud. How is everyone doing . Good. It took me two hours to get here from the airport which is as long as it took me to fly he