What Influencial American Muslim Scholars and Teachers Are Saying About the Election

I accumulated some responses to the election and candidacy of Obama by influential mainstream American Muslim scholars and teachers. Click on the paragraph headers to visit the sites.

Imam Zaid Shakir
Imam Zaid has been very outspoken throughout the election with deep analysis of Obama and American politics. This is an article written after the election results. After reading this a brother sent Imam Zaid a message criticizing his optimism on an Obama administration and this is Imam Zaid Shakir’s Response.

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi
This is the response from Shaykh Yasir Qadhi of Al-Maghrib institute who is no stranger to well thought out analysis of American Islam.

Shaykh Yaser Birjas
Though Shaykh Yaser Birjas was not born an American, he has since made America his home and has shown great concern for important US social ills.

Imam Anwar al Awlaki
Anwar al Awlaki was a highly active Texan native but has since made his home in Yemen where he still closely follows American politics.

Hamza Yusuf Video at Isna 2008
Shaykh Hamza Yusuf is very active in the US as well as internationally though I could not find anything that he has said regarding Obama directly. This is the closest that I could get to some kind of commentary.

Imam Suhaib Webb
This is Imam Suhaib Webb’s take. He is an American Muslim convert who studied Islam at al-Azhar University in Egypt and has recently joined forces with the al-Maghrib Institute as an instructor (Thanks to HK for this one.)

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