Pamela K. Taylor

Pamela K. Taylor

co-founder, Muslims for Progressive Values

"On Faith" panelist Pamela K. Taylor is co-founder of Muslims for Progressive Values and director of the Islamic Writers Alliance. She is a member of the national board of advisors to the Network of Spiritual Progressives, and served as co-chair of the Progressive Muslim Union for two years. Taylor is a strong supporter of the woman imam movement, which seeks the full participation of Muslim women in every aspect of life, including the pulpit. In July 2005, she became the first woman in centuries to officiate Friday prayers in a mosque when the United Muslim Association of Toronto and the Muslim Canadian Congress invited her to serve as guest imam. (This event followed a number of services, sermons and prayer sessions led by women held in private venues because no mosque agreed to host them.) In February 2006, when the former Grand Mufti of Marseilles visited Toronto, he requested that Taylor lead him in congregational prayer as an unequivocal demonstration of his support for female imams. Taylor has also been active in interfaith dialogue for 20 years, both in local initiatives and speaking at numerous conferences, universities, and churches. She received her MTS from Harvard Divinity School, and writes regularly on spiritual matters and the Islamic faith. She has essays in Nurturing Child and Adolescent Spirituality: Perspectives from the World's Religious Traditions (2006) and the forthcoming The Veil: Women Writers on Its History, Lore, and Politics (2007). She has written hundreds of articles and opinion pieces for newspapers, magazines, and journals, and is an award winning poet. Close.

Pamela K. Taylor

co-founder, Muslims for Progressive Values

"On Faith" panelist Pamela K. Taylor is co-founder of Muslims for Progressive Values and director of the Islamic Writers Alliance. She is a member of the national board of advisors to the Network of Spiritual Progressives, and served as co-chair of the Progressive Muslim Union for two years. Taylor is a strong supporter of the woman imam movement, which seeks the full participation of Muslim women in every aspect of life, including the pulpit. more »

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Implementing the First Amendment

In the case of prayers at public, governmental gatherings, I believe religion really has no place.

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lepidopteryx:

Ryan:

Your unconventional syntax is giving me some difficulty understanding your meaning.

Who or what is quartered in my pockets?

Are you attempting to justify the war we started in Iraq by principles of Native American spirituality?

RyanOfColumbiaSC:

Leipedoptryx

We are a nation of Freedom of Religion, bound by One Creator albeit Quartered in your pockets and beyond my application of just First Amendment power, although in following, I believe just so, in One God, We Are - and Spiritous Believing - such as those first -The Natice Americans believe that Wars are fought to preserve Land's Sanctification, and the Endowement of God's Own Sanctification that Peace from: Our Standing Homelands Safety from insurrection reverberates from History WITHOUT DOUBT, That the Cause of History Finds a Way FOR WAR FOR SECURITY and PEACE FOR INSURITOUS Necessity of cause for Overall National and Human Values - Truie to All Religions, and Such the CALLED FOR Resilience to LEARN FROM HISTORY. Look up the writing s of Jerome Reel Jr. I quote his Historical need for American Brotherhood for Statemenship, Capital Value absorption through Trust in Nation, Assembly to deem what is Just for Our Nation and Global Community, and Safety and Security Assured through the planned Metamorphisis of keeping Our Nation a True World Leader, and Protector of Sacred Human Kindred Spiritous Status, and Indivisible from Terrors amongst the Realm of All Present Dangers.
-Ryan Michael Roberts, Columbia, SC

lepidopteryx:

Ryan:
**First things First - We are a Christian Nation; Under One God binding Us in Faith. Are We not from Quakers, SHakers, Delta Catholics fighting for Saintly Faith and Pilgrims breaking bread with a Compact of Corn Grain in the newest days of the know that natural grains are sowed in Faith that some higher spirit was passed down in Holy Land from many, many years passed?**

First things first - we are NOT a Christian nation. We are a nation, some individuals of which are Christian. Big difference.

Christianity is not the mandated official religion. Americans walk every spiritual path imaginable.

If you want to go with longevity as the basis for official religion , then the national religion should reflect Native American beliefs. After all, they were here first.

RyanofColumbiaSC:

First things First - We are a Christian Nation; Under One God binding Us in Faith. Are We not from Quakers, SHakers, Delta Catholics fighting for Saintly Faith and Pilgrims breaking bread with a Compact of Corn Grain in the newest days of the know that natural grains are sowed in Faith that some higher spirit was passed down in Holy Land from many, many years passed? I quote Ezekiel 16:47 " Yet hast though not walked after their ways, nor done after their abominations, but as if that were a very little thing... thou hast corrupted more than they in all thy ways?" From the Oxford press, and Separation from a Church-State-Of England, have We Founding Fathers Of US not set forth a riddle to speak in parable the House of the Holy Land (Ezekiel 17:2). We separate from the beginningst of this nation to form One Nation under God, "No omissions, nor evasions, would answer the end" (Federalist 16) ...Wherest "We would be obliged to act, and in such a manner, as would leave no doubt that, (implied) they had encroached on National Rights.... and (foot forward) of a people enlightened (granted) enough to distinguish between a legal exercise (Our use of the Word of the Bible, Our ability to speak in just, and gather in Assembly to pronounce Justice as Granted by resource of Legaliti Apperandi)... and (the Constituions defense; to deny) and illegal Usurpation of authority. And given that the Usurpers of Old Europe, masked proudly yet in defeat of Our Protestant ways, and the Worldy United Standing of Justice in the Freest of The Three Holy Land Religions passed down word of The Same One God, would we not denoue to reason that no usurpers may deny OUR JUSTICE for safe Assembly by Quartered of Guantanemo, as it would we "idle to not take stand against terror precautionary amongst Our Government" and Stand with Render Our Nation Godly in Just of Sight with need for Security amongst all Worldy Citizne Parameters, and Belief that the Fisrst Amendment "Is Safely affirmed at the Extravagant Appetite Of Nations Founding Council" Personally I believe threeforth: 1. God granted us freedom speach, and protection 2. Usurpers of Justice take heed to the Call of All necessary refractions of Biblical and Contituational Call regarding all personal interests involved --> and third, Publickly Speaking --> Revelry of Democracy, God, and the Right to live safely amongst your peers, is a stand against both State factions of Injustice on a Global scale, and Religious Terror, Obliging Us to attach ourselves to what Patriotic and Neighbourly call demands, One God's Justice and Freedom as American. I quoth upon self, "American Civil Liberties calls upon the Freedom of the World, We speak as We Protect, and One God's Oversight!"
Call me Thomas J. Hamilton

lepidopteryx:

Peacetroll(Operative half of the handle being Troll):

**No one shoves Christianity down anyone's throat.**

Tell that to the campus evengelists who grab folks in front of the student union, and the JW's and Mormons who come knocking at my door on Saturday morning, interrupting my morning devotional to tell me that I'm worhipping the wrong deities.

**Only pornography, lewdenss and rudeness is taught to our children without regard.**

Funny, this will be my daughter's twelfth year in the public school system, and she has yet to bring home a copy of Hustler from school.

**But if you seek to speak of Christ**

You can speak all you want of Christ, but your right to speak does not guarantee you a captive audience.

**or expose the fraud of the Holocaust,**

The Holocaust was a fraud? Tell that to my elderly Jewish friend with the numbers tattooed on his arm...

**or speak about the fact that Hitler was part Jewish,**

I've never heard that he was, but even if he was, it doesn't make the Holocaust a fraud perpetrated by the Jews.

Hitler the Co-founder of Israel:

Adolf Hitler the Co-Founder of Israel
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"The reader might look unsuccessfully FOR A BOOK THAT LONG AGO DISAPPEARED FROM THE MARKET . (now who would have done that??!!) It was an extraordinary and instructive investigation conducted by a German Jew Dietrich Bronder, a high school teacher. Its title is: “Before Hitler Came”. It was printed in 1964 and is about who was who in the Hitler’s apparatus: “Of Jewish descent, or being related to Jewish families were:

• The Leader and Reichschancelor Adolf Hitler;
• His representatives the Reichsminister Rudolf Hess
• Reichsmarshall Hermann Goering
• Reichsleader of the NSDAP Gregory Strasser
• Dr. Josef Goebbels
• Alfred Rosenberg
• Hans Frank
• Heinrich Himmler
• Reichsminister Von Ribbentrop (who pledged close friendship with the famous Zionist Chaim Weizmann, the first head of State of Israel who died in 1952)
• Von Keudell
• Field commanders Globocnik (The Jewish Destructor), Jordan and Wilhelm Hube
• The great SS-Leaders Reinhard Heydrich, Erich von Dem Back-Zelewski and Von Keudell II.

Next came Hitler’s bankers and before 1933 supporters:

• Ritter Von Stauss (Vice President of the NS-Parliament)
• Von Stein
• The General Field Marshall and Secretary of State: Milch
• Under Secretary of State Gauss
• The physicist and old Party members Philipp von Lenhard and Abraham Esau
• The very old party member Hanffstaengel
• NSDAP’s newspaper Chief of Foreign Department (Later an advisor to President D. Roosevelt)
• Professor Haushofer

(Inset: all of them were members of the secret Thule Order/Society).
This list is NOT COMPLETE. IF YOU DEVOTE A LITTLE TIME TO THESE FINDINGS OF THE RELATION BETWEEN HITLER’s SICK HATRED TOWARDS HIS KINSMEN, WITH HIS HENCHMEN ON ONE SIDE, AND THE CREATION OF THE STATE OF ISRAEL ON THE OTHER, THEN YOU SHOULD SATISFY YOUR CURIOSITY.”

Please read full article: Hitler the Founder of Israel

So. Not only was the Communist (Bolshevik), movement completely devised and executed by Jewish master-minds (or partly Jewish like Lenin, to full Jewish like so many of the Secret Police Chiefs, all the way to Marx *Jew & Trosky *Jew), but the whole damn Nazi movement was Jew or 1/2 Jew too. Talk about a world empire these folks have. THEY MONOPOLIZE WAR.

Peacetroll's Blog:

No one shoves Christianity down anyone's throat.

Only pornography, lewdenss and rudeness is taught to our children without regard.

But if you seek to speak of Christ or expose the fraud of the Holocaust, or speak about the fact that Hitler was part Jewish,

Or that Hitlers regime was made of of Jews and part-Jews,

Or that the USSR (Bolshevik's), and their movement (communism), was nearly completely orchestrated by Jews (see Holodomor in which a Jew by the name of Kaganovich was primarily responsible for the deaths of 7 million slavic Kuraks of Ukrain), we are labeled an Anti-Semite.

Just because we bring to the light FACTS, does not make one an Anti-Semite.

In fact we who believe in Jesus are from Abraham, and we are Semites.

Wake up now.

http://ellhn.e-e-e.gr/books/assets/founder_of_Israel.pdf

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