Islam and Global Affairs Simulation Day III

Islam and Global Affairs Simulation Day III

3.35-3:50: Media Reports

Each media outlet will take no more than 4-5 minutes each to report on the conferences in Iraq, Afghanistan and the USA.

Participants: CNN, BBC, Al Jazeera.

3:50 - 4:20 US Presidential Debates

This is an integrated Presidential primary and national election debate simulation. Each Presidential candidate will make a 2-3 minute opening statement on his/her foreign policy on the subject of democracy promotion in the Middle East and political Islam. They will then answer questions from the house.

4:20 - 4:45 Debriefing Session

Islam and Global Affairs: Simulation Day II

3.40 - 3: 55: The Media reports on the conference of scholars on the compatibility of Islam and Democracy.

Participants: BBC, CNN, Al Jazeera

3:55 – 4:40: V. President Cheney hosts a conference to discuss the viability and the pros and cons for the US and the region if the US were to make democracy promotion the primary goal of US foreign policy in the Middle East.

Participants: C. Rice, D. Cheney, Irving Kristol, and R. Guiliani, T. Ramadan, M. Khan, O. Bakar, A. Tamimi, J. Esposito, B. Lewis, N. Feldman, R. Guiliani, H. Clinton, M. Romney, B. Obama [Chair: Cheney]

3:55 – 4:40: The Iraq group meets discuss the limits and problems in the Iraq constitution which seeks to give equal credence to both Islam and democracy. If the two are compatible there should be no problem but if there are irreconcilable differences then the constitution will lead to legal and political chaos.

The group shall determine if (a) the constitution is fine as is, or (b) it needs to be amended with the following amendments ----------------- and (c) it needs to completely scrapped and rewritten from scratch.

Participants: A. Sistani, Iyad Alawi, Iraqi Arab Bathist, Sheikh Baha al-Din, Muqtada Sadr, President Iraqi National Association of Women, Syed Qutb, Mohsen Abdul Hamid, Ayatollah Khomeini, and President Iraqi National Association of Minorities. [Chair: A. Sistani].

3:55 – 4:40: The Afghanistan group group meets discuss the limits and problems in the Iraq constitution which seeks to give equal credence to both Islam and democracy. If the two are compatible there should be no problem but if there are irreconcilable differences then the constitution will lead to legal and political chaos.

The group shall determine if (a) the constitution is fine as is, or (b) it needs to be amended with the following amendments ----------------- and (c) it needs to completely scrapped and rewritten from scratch.

Participants: Hamid Karzai, Pro-Taliban, President Afghan National Association of Hinds and Sikhs, President Afghan National Association of women, Maulana Maududi, Al-Nabhani, Abdul Wahhab, and Sir Syed Ahmed Khan. [Chair: Hamid Karzai].

Syed Qutb and M. Maududi

Please read this article on Syed Qutb and then comment on it and the two essays that you read by Maududi and Qutb.