The WSU Inclusion and Diversity Office, WSU International Services Office, Dr. Tammy Swenson Lepper’s CMST 291 Class, Southeast Technical College, Anoka Ramsey Community College, and the WSU Muslim Student Association present Everything You Wanted to Know About Jihad but Were Too Afraid to Ask with guest speaker Sheikh Odeh Muhawesh. Further details are available below.

• Topic: Everything You Wanted to Know About Jihad but Were Too Afraid to Ask
• Date: Tuesday, October 18, 2011
• Location & Time: Winona State University, East Hall – 7:00 p.m.
• Co-Sponsored by: WSU Inclusion and Diversity Office, WSU International Services Office, Dr. Tammy Swenson Lepper’s CMST 291 Class, Southeast Technical College, Anoka Ramsey Community College, and the WSU Muslim Student Association
• Free and Open to the Public
• Guest Speaker: Sheikh Odeh Muhawesh

About Sheikh Odeh Muhawesh

Sheikh Odeh A. Muhawesh is a well-known theologian and successful business leader. Mr. Muhawesh founded several very successful businesses over the course of 26 years, establishing a strong record of growing revenue and developing competitive products for software and professional services companies. As a specialist in theology and modern Middle East history, Mr. Muhawesh teaches these subjects at the University of St. Thomas, where he is an associate of the Muslim-Christian Dialogue Center. He is the author of several books and studies that are published in several languages around the world. Mr. Muhawesh is an accomplished speaker, and is frequently interviewed by global media to speak about the above subjects. Mr. Muhawesh hails from the highly reputable tribe of Daaja of Jordan, which traces its roots to Prince Mahdawi.

A Note from Sheikh Odeh Muhawesh

Owing to uninformed people not taking care to educate themselves, the term “jihad” has become a dirty word in the U.S. The reality is that any person struggling to better themselves as a result of their love for God is engaging in jihad—this is the greater jihad (struggle). When I admit that the lesser form of jihad, war, is a definition of “jihad” too, you may want to tell me, “I told you so.” But the fact is, it’s just about 100% certain that you would not be able to tell me even one true statement about the war jihad. Jihad in the media and jihad in the hands of uninformed Muslims is so far removed from the terms of true jihad that you would be flabbergasted upon hearing the truth.