<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/90aab22a-8629-4d6d-b1c0-14361b518700/3BE6A312-ED5C-4A08-85DF-324E6F440C80/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://media.www.signal-online.net/media/storage/paper771/news/2008/02/20/News/Lecturer.Touts.African.Islams.Progressivism-3219682.shtml" href="http://media.www.signal-online.net/media/storage/paper771/news/2008/02/20/News/Lecturer.Touts.African.Islams.Progressivism-3219682.shtml" style="font-size: 11px;">media.www.signal-online.net</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://media.www.signal-online.net/media/storage/paper771/news/2008/02/20/News/Lecturer.Touts.African.Islams.Progressivism-3219682.shtml">Guest speaker Souleymane Bachir Diagne, professor of philosophy at Northwestern University</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://media.www.signal-online.net/media/storage/paper771/news/2008/02/20/News/Lecturer.Touts.African.Islams.Progressivism-3219682.shtml"><DIV>"Islam in Senegal," Diagne said, "seems to me to be a good vantage point towards a larger and more connected issue," which was whether Islam and modernity could coexist. </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://media.www.signal-online.net/media/storage/paper771/news/2008/02/20/News/Lecturer.Touts.African.Islams.Progressivism-3219682.shtml"><DIV>The speech focused on Senegal's first president, philosopher and poet Leopold Sedar Senghor. Though Senghor was Catholic with Anglo-Saxon ideals, he had much invested in Islamic pluralism.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://media.www.signal-online.net/media/storage/paper771/news/2008/02/20/News/Lecturer.Touts.African.Islams.Progressivism-3219682.shtml"><DIV>Diagne also spoke about Islamic mysticism, called Sufism, which is practiced in Senegal and other parts of sub-Saharan Africa. </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://media.www.signal-online.net/media/storage/paper771/news/2008/02/20/News/Lecturer.Touts.African.Islams.Progressivism-3219682.shtml"><DIV>Sufism is commonly associated with pluralism and peacefulness, and Diagne stressed this was due to the followers' tolerance for others. </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://media.www.signal-online.net/media/storage/paper771/news/2008/02/20/News/Lecturer.Touts.African.Islams.Progressivism-3219682.shtml">"Women can have positions of leadership in Sufi orders."</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://media.www.signal-online.net/media/storage/paper771/news/2008/02/20/News/Lecturer.Touts.African.Islams.Progressivism-3219682.shtml">"When it comes to pluralism and tolerance, the fact that sub-Saharan Islam is mainly Sufism makes it particularly immune from the most extremist forms of Islam that we have seen,"</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/3BE6A312-ED5C-4A08-85DF-324E6F440C80/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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