http://clipmarks.com/clipper/arifsali/date/2008/4/18/http://rss.clipmarks.com/clipper/arifsali/date/2008/4/18/15Clip, tag and save information that's important to you. Bookmarks save entire pages...Clipmarks save the specific content that matters to you!en-ushttp://clipmarks.com/clipmark/8D8AE86A-54A1-44BE-9624-209C513D1EA2/<b>clipped by:</b> <a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/arifsali/">arifsali</a><br><b>clipper's remarks:</b> Reza Aslan<br/>Author, “No god but God” <br><div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"><div style="background-color:"><div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"><span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;">Clip Source: <a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2008/04/18/the-other-global-religious-leader-visiting-america/" title="http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2008/04/18/the-other-global-religious-leader-visiting-america/">ac360.blogs.cnn.com</a></span></div><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">The media spotlight on Pope Benedict’s first trip to the United States seems to have completely overshadowed the American tour of another global religious leader, the Aga Khan.</div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">The Aga Khan is the spiritual leader of some 20 million Ismaili Muslims.</div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><img src="http://clipmarks.com/image_cache/arifsali/512/BC5F9D63-60F6-410C-BFEA-709C742E95A5.jpg" alt="" /><br /></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P>But don’t let the clothes and the fabulous riches fool you. The Aga Khan is not only a devout and transcendent man of deep religious faith, he is also one of the most generous philanthropists in the world.</P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P><SPAN id="more-712"></SPAN>His Aga Khan Development Network is a massive charitable fund dedicated almost entirely to caring for the poor. He runs nearly 200 hospitals. He funds thousands of schools, charities, arts programs, museums, and theaters.</P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">For those of us who are sick and tired of media pundits always asking, “where are the moderate Muslim leaders,”</div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">why there are no “Muslim Mandela’s” out there, the Aga Khan, and the millions of modernist, democratically minded, reformist, and pluralist Muslims who follow him, are the perfect answer.</div></div></div></div><br><div style="margin-bottom: 40px;">Tags: <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/religion/" rel="tag">religion</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/leadership/" rel="tag">leadership</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/islam/" rel="tag">islam</a></div>http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2008/04/18/the-other-global-religious-leader-visiting-america/Sat, 19 Apr 2008 00:07:57 GMT