{"id":39021,"date":"2016-04-05T03:18:28","date_gmt":"2016-04-05T07:18:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/utnews.utoledo.edu\/?p=39021"},"modified":"2016-04-05T10:05:46","modified_gmt":"2016-04-05T14:05:46","slug":"isis-islamic-religion-to-be-discussed-at-imam-khattab-lecture-april-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/04_05_2016\/isis-islamic-religion-to-be-discussed-at-imam-khattab-lecture-april-7","title":{"rendered":"ISIS, Islamic religion to be discussed at Imam Khattab Lecture April 7"},"content":{"rendered":"

Less than one month after the Brussels attacks, there are many questions surrounding the terrorist group ISIS. <\/p>\n

\u201cIs ISIS Islamic?\u201d will be the topic of the annual Imam Khattab Lecture on Islamic Thought by Dr. Ovamir Anjum, UT Imam Khattab Endowed Chair of Islamic Studies. The free, public lecture will be Thursday, April 7, at 7 p.m. in the Driscoll Alumni Auditorium. <\/p>\n

\"Islamic<\/a>\u201cIn the face of these terrible terrorist attacks in Brussels, France, Turkey and Pakistan, there is a lot of emotion and fear,\u201d he said. \u201cTo understand the situation better, I think it\u2019s good for us all, especially with the ongoing elections, to have these discussions.\u201d <\/p>\n

Anjum spoke on the topic last fall for the series, \u201cWindows on Contemporary Islamic Issues,\u201d following the Paris attacks, stating that ISIS is not Islamic, but rather Saddam Hussein\u2019s radical legacy. Modern scholars consider ISIS a modern-day Kharijites \u2014 a heretical group known for violence, he said.<\/p>\n

Expanding on his previous talk, Anjum said he plans to reflect on three points: what conditions created ISIS; how everyone in the Islamic tradition condemns the acts of ISIS; and the disturbing phenomenon of young people, especially Westerners, joining ISIS. <\/p>\n

With a larger audience, Anjum said he hopes to spark conversations in the community. <\/p>\n

This lecture is part of the UT Center for Religious Understanding\u2019s annual lecture series, which has been active for more than a decade. The center promotes a deeper understanding of religion on campus and in greater Toledo. <\/p>\n

For more information, visit the Imam Khattab Lecture Series page at\u00a0http:\/\/utole.do\/imamkhattab<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dr. Ovamir Anjum, UT Imam Khattab Endowed Chair of Islamic Studies, will give a talk titled \u201cIs ISIS Islamic?\u201d Thursday, April 7, at 7 p.m. in the Driscoll Alumni Auditorium. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":708,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7,37],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39021"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/708"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39021"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39079,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39021\/revisions\/39079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}