How to pronounce “imam” in English

Imam Husayn ibn Ali.

- You write about Imam Shamil, that he's an important figure for this region and a hero as well.

and whether it's Imam that came out of North Africa.

There's a Muslim imam and a priest hugging each other.

And the imam at the mosque was quite taken with him and said, you have a real gift for speech.

And he's an imam at a mosque in San Diego.

priest every Muslim every Imam every um Pastor usually tells people marry somebody of your same

So there are imams who have privately told us that they are open and welcoming, but there isn't anyone who is ready to take that mantle,

You see the imams.

They've gotten several imams to support them, which is critical to the kind of longer term cultural change you're talking about, imams who now say, it is not true that this

--which translates into "the fainting imam."

And you can't call this imam biyaldi.

But then you just go to the imam, and you have two witnesses, male witnesses, ordinarily your friends.

And he starts a blog called Imam Anwar's Blog.

I gave talks on stage with imams and stuff like that, and I was worried, physically worried because of what I was going to say.

The FBI was putting pressure on imams to become informants for the government.

- Well, Imam Shamil, he was known for resisting an empire as huge as Russia.

So some of you might have heard of the dish called imam biyildi--

So another-- so a modern take on this imam bayildi that he's recently seen--

And in that very early battle what happens is Imam Ali and others expel them from within Islam.

So he uses an allegory of the death of Imam Husayn to represent the death of the intellectuals of Iraq.

And I said, imam, I have a man here who is a Christian.

the event that day when they invite an imam to come and speak at the Pentagon and serve bacon sandwiches, one of

country was not following the line of the Imam, was taken over, largely, by the Oman's group and carried through.

The imams, rabbis, preachers, they might say some shit, might put some people , they might do anything.

So if you're not Muslim, Imam Husayn basically was the grandson of the prophet.

And I knocked on the door, and the imam answered.

And every Friday, he and the imam go out for falafel.

Are there LGBT people working to interpret scripture at sort of an imam level to create a gay-friendly mosque or a gay-friendly safe zone

but that he wanted to study Islam and that he wanted to become an imam.

And so he began a course of Islamic scholarship and ultimately did become an imam.

So they took up arms and wanted to kill the fourth Caliph, Imam Ali.

And there's a, let's say, an imam there, and the imam is saying to him, you'll get the virgins when we find your penis.

And when 9/11 happened, Anwar Al-Aulaqi was the imam at a large Islamic center in Falls Church, Virginia called the Dar Al-Hijrah Mosque.

So just to give you another example of a concrete campaign that we've been working on over the last few weeks, there is a self-declared female imam in Berlin

Because Kadhim Haidar is saying, oh, I'm painting a painting about the martyrdom of Imam Husayn ibn Ali.

Because he cannot paint an Iraqi intellectual who was killed, he says, I'm just painting the deaths of-- the death of Imam Husayn--

Well, I've been hired by the Turkish government to deal with the situation of Mr. Gulen, who is an Imam living in Saylorsburg, Pennsylvania, who

or some other thousand dollars, and then rebate that money-- a percentage of that money, 15% or 20%, to the Imam.

Bad reasons for believing are tradition, authority, I believe it because the priest or the pope or the imam or the rabbi told me to believe it.

Most religions prescribe a moral way that you try to follow, and you have teachers, gurus, imams, all

Uh imams and priests get

But again, I think it's only a matter of time, and it's probably in the next five years that I'll see mainstream, at least some imams

So I kind of shy away from all that, even though I'm the chairman of the Foundation for Ethnic Understanding, and I have imams and rabbis