Talk:Zaid Shakir

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[edit] POV

Some quotes:

• Shakir is amongst the most respected and influential Muslim scholars in the West[citation needed],
• widely regarded as an articulate voice on Islam and African-American issues and as a visionary leader in the emergence of an Islamic community and tradition that is indigenous to America.
• accepted Islam (should be converted to Islam)
• continued his tireless community activism

That's an eulogy, not NPOV. {{wikify}}{{sources}} goes without saying. --tickle me 00:40, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

Not really--it can't be a eulogy if he's not dead! In any event, there's an articne in the 6/18/2006 New York TImes that essentially confirms all of this. [1] and which seems to provide enough info to serve as a citation for most of what's said in the Wikipedia article.Andrewjnyc 02:39, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

You may want to refer to eulogy - all hail to Mr. Shakir, may he live long and prosper. As for the sources: if there are, they should be added using the <ref> syntax, so readers can evaluate the paragraph's factuality. --tickle me 07:59, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

The cite they add to this quote 'Shakir is amongst the most respected and influential Muslim scholars in the West' is from his own institute!Opiner 15:52, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

I noticed that too, Opiner. For the time being, i'm going to remove that as his own site is obviously not going to be an objective source. If anyone else has a third party source then please use that. MezzoMezzo 15:02, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for doing that MezzoMezzo. I'll remove the POV tag... Alcarillo 23:27, 10 May 2007 (UTC)