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Date of TFUSA Lecture/Discussion Changed To Sunday, November 29, 2015

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Thinkers’ Forum USA Affiliates!

You are cordially invited to the next monthly Lecture of TF USA.

Speaker:     Noor Salik

          Topic: “Critical analysis of Allama Iqbal’s Lectures ( 1st or 1st and 2nd) on RECONSTRUCTION OF RELIGIOUS THOUGHT IN ISLAM”

Moderator:   Dr. Fayyaz Sheikh

When:

Sunday, November 29, 2015

Duration:

Start Time:          11;30 AM

End Time:            1;30 PM

Lunch Served After Lecture

Location:

Karavelli Regional Cuisine of India

416 Nanuet Mall S, Nanuet, NY 10954
(845) 215-9794

Directions

From Upstate NY and NJ Garden State  Pkwy

Take 87 South Towards NYC. Take Exit 13 S ( Palisades Pkwy South).  Take Exit 8W ( Route 59 W ).  At 4th traffic light take Left on S. Middletown Road. Then at 2nd traffic light make right on Nanuet Mall south. The restaurant is on the left in a small mall strip. There is a board sign of Market Street on the mall strip.

From Tappan Zee Bridge. Take 87 North , then Exit 13 S and follow upstate directions.

From NYC, NJ- Take Palisades Pkwy  North , then exit  8W ( Route 59 W ) and follow the directions above.

TF USA Lecture/Discussion November 29, 2015

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Thinkers’ Forum USA Affiliates!

You are cordially invited to the next monthly Lecture of TF USA.

Speaker:     Noor Salik

          Topic: “Critical analysis of Allama Iqbal’s Lectures ( 1st or 1st and 2nd) on RECONSTRUCTION OF RELIGIOUS THOUGHT IN ISLAM”

Moderator:   Dr. Fayyaz Sheikh

When:

Sunday, November 29, 2015

Duration:

Start Time:          11;30 AM

End Time:            1;30 PM

Brunch Served After Lecture

Location:

Karavelli Regional Cuisine of India

( Halal Meat except chicken)

416 Nanuet Mall S, Nanuet, NY 10954
(845) 215-9794

Directions

From Upstate NY and NJ Garden State  Pkwy

Take 87 South Towards NYC. Take Exit 13 S ( Palisades Pkwy South).  Take Exit 8W ( Route 59 W ).  At 4th traffic light take Left on S. Middletown Road. Then at 2nd traffic light make right on Nanuet Mall south. The restaurant is on the left in a small mall strip. There is a board sign of Market Street on the mall strip.

From Tappan Zee Bridge. Take 87 North , then Exit 13 S and follow upstate directions.

From NYC, NJ- Take Palisades Pkwy  North , then exit  8W ( Route 59 W ) and follow the directions above.

Why Asian Americans Are Such Loyal Democrats?

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“In just two decades, Asian-American support for the Democratic presidential candidate more than doubled, from the 31 percent Bill Clinton got in 1992 to the 73 percent cast for President Obama in 2012, according to exit polls.”

Asian-Americans, according to the Pew Research Center, “are the best-educated, highest-income, fastest-growing race group in the country.”

In 2014, median household income for Asian-Americans was $74,297; for whites, $60,256; for Hispanics, $42,491; and for African-Americans, $35,398.

 

Three out of five in the Asian-American work force have a college degree, compared with 37 percent of whites, 27 percent of African-Americans and 18 percent of Hispanics. Fifty percent of Asian-Americans have managerial or professional jobs, compared with 39 percent of whites, 29 percent of African-Americans and 20 percent of Hispanics.

Asian-Americans also stand apart from other Americans of all races and ethnicities in family structure. The percent of out-of-wedlock births among Asian-Americas in 2013 was 17 percent, just over half the 29.3 percent rate for whites and far below the 53.2 rate for Hispanics and the 71.5 percent rate for African-Americans.

The work ethic is robust among Asian-Americans, who believe by 42 points (69-27) that “most people can get ahead if they’re willing to work hard.” Among all American adults, it’s a much smaller 18 points (58-40).”

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/04/opinion/why-are-asian-americans-such-loyal-democrats.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=opinion-c-col-left-region®ion=opinion-c-col-left-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-left-region

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Religious Arbitration In Business Contracts Replacing USA Laws

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“Businesses and organizations can compel their customers and employees to resolve disputes in arbitration proceedings bound not by state or federal law, but by religious edict.”

“Customers who buy bamboo floors from Higuera Hardwoods in Washington State must take any dispute before a Christian arbitrator, according to the company’s website. Carolina Cabin Rentals, which rents high-end vacation properties in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina, tells its customers that disputes may be resolved according to biblical principles. The same goes for contestants in a fishing tournament in Hawaii.”

“Pamela Prescott battled for years to prove that she had been unjustly fired from a private school in Louisiana. The crux of her case — which wound through arbitration, a federal appeals court and state court — was references in her employment contract to verses from the Bible.

In legal circles, those cases, along with the Ellison suit, are considered seminal examples of how judges have consistently upheld religious arbitrations over secular objections. They also reflect a battle in the United States over religious freedom, a series of skirmishes that include a Kentucky clerk’s refusal to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples and a Muslim woman’s being passed over for a job at Abercrombie & Fitch because she wore a head scarf.”

“More than anything, the cases show the power of arbitration clauses. An investigation by The New York Times found that companies have used the clauses to create an alternate system of justice. Americans are being forced out of court and into arbitration for everything from botched home renovations to medical malpractice.

By adding a religious component, companies are taking the privatization of justice a step further. Proponents of religious arbitration said the process allowed people of faith to work out problems using shared values, achieving not just a settlement but often reconciliation.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/03/business/dealbook/in-religious-arbitration-scripture-is-the-rule-of-law.html?emc=eta1

posted by f. Sheikh