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BUENA
PARK, Calif., May 6 - First Southern Baptist Church in
Buena Park, CA will host the first Christian/Muslim
Dialogue event. The event is scheduled for 6 PM Pacific
time, Sunday May 24th and is open to the public.
Reverend Wiley Drake of FSBC, will share the podium with
prominent Christian and Muslim leaders.
Slated to speak are Imam Muhammad Siddeeq and Reverend
Howie Gardner.
Imam Muhammad Siddeeq is a graduate of the University of
Pennsylvania and has done graduate studies at Howard
University, the University of Indiana, Butler
University, Union College and Martin University. He has
served as professor of Biology at the Hebrew Academy of
Washington D. C., as Director of Education at Muhammad
University of Islam in New York City and at Florida
State University and Florida A&M. He is a former
assistant to Minister Louis Farrakhan in the Nation of
Islam and is the successor to Imam Wallace Deen
Muhammad; founder of the Islamic Society of North
America and recognized as one of the 100 most
influential people in the world by Ebony Magazine. He
and his wife Fareedah have been married for 44 years and
have 8 daughters and 7 sons.
Rev. Howie Gardner is pastor of Bel Air Assembly of God
in Bel Air, Maryland. He is a graduate of Oral Roberts
University and has done graduate studies at, Trinity
Evangelical Divinity School, United Theological Seminary
and ORU's Graduate School of Theology. He is author of
two books: "The Church & Terri Schiavo" and "Oral Exam"
(originally titled "Oral Roberts in the Eyes of One of
His Students"). He and his wife Angie have three
children live in Bel Air, MD.
Topics up for dialogue are; "What in your religion would
justify and sanction a nation going to war or
retaliating against an attack?" "What is the proper role
for women within your religion?" and "How can we be
assured of justification before God?" Much of the
dialogue will center around Gardner's 2006 letter to the
Muslim leadership found at www.cmdialogue.com.
The group hopes to establish a rapport between Christian
and Muslim leaders and clerics. A main goal is to see
the Muslim leadership at Mecca declare a fatwa against
school literature promoting terrorist acts and against
terrorism in general.
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