Displaying Posts Tagged ‘Islam’

Crying Fire in a Crowded Theater

Connie K. Duckworth / September 10th, 2010 / posted in events / 1 comment

This past week felt like the world was living out the 1983 movie War Games where Matthew Broderick as a hacker unknowingly starts playing Global Thermonuclear War as the Soviet Union. While the military tries to defuse the situation, the computer just keeps playing to win the game, pushing them into raising the DEFCON level that would set off World War III.

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Our Shared Experience

Connie K. Duckworth / August 30th, 2010 / posted in events, people / no comments

We are now halfway through Ramadan, which began this year on August 11 and ends on September 10 with the festival of Eid ul-Fitr. If you are like me and grew up as a non-Muslim American with virtually no exposure to Islam, chances are you may be unfamiliar with this important religious faith tradition.

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