Thursday, January 3, 2013
The Chicagoland organization helps Muslims integrate into the fabric of American life in their communities.
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Thursday, January 3
Morton Grove Mayor Dan Staackmann is scheduled to speak Friday at the monthly meeting of an organization called Community Builders. All are welcome to hear his topic, "Civic Engagement: Local Perspective" at the dinner event, to be held from 7 to 10 p.m. Jan. 4 at the American Legion Civic Center, 6140 W. Dempster St., Morton Grove. The meeting itself is free, and there is a $10 cost for dinner. Registration, networking and dinner take place from 7 to 8 p.m., and the mayor's address is scheduled to start at 8 p.m., followed by a question and answer session. Rizwan Kadir, a former Muslim Community Center Full-Time School Council Chair, will serve as moderator.
Thursday, September 8, 2011
Muslims now called upon to be experts and ambassadors in the community.
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Thursday, September 8, 2011
This story is part of a Patch series examining the Muslim experience 10 years after the Sept. 11 attacks. Read other stories in the series here. When Rizwan Kadir would leave his downtown office during lunch on Fridays to pray at a nearby mosque, he told very few coworkers where he was going. He wasn’t deliberatively secretive about his Muslim faith with his fellow investment bankers. He just considered religion a private issue. That was before September 11. In the 10 years since the attacks, Kadir and other area Muslims have been compelled to go from quietly practicing their faith to becoming public ambassadors of Islam, giving presentations to religious, educational and civic groups in the area. “We Muslims came out of our comfort zones…
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
Patch examines what it means to be Muslim in our communities in the aftermath of 9/11.
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Tuesday, September 6, 2011
The attacks of Sept. 11 affected everyone in this country deeply — whether it was the loss of a loved one or an omnipresent sense of anxiety, a desire to connect with community or improve a social condition.
Muslims, like all Americans, grappled with these feelings. But they also had the unique, unwelcome experience of being regarded by some with scorn and fear. This month, the Patch sites in our region are looking at how the experience of being Muslim in our communities has changed in the 10 years since 9/11. From Oak Park to Highland Park, we'll offer stories about what it means to be Muslim in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks, and what some in our communities are doing to bridge the gap between Muslims and non-Muslims. We'll …
Monday, June 13, 2011
Parents, Students Gather For Summer Celebration
Carnival games, inflatables, pony rides, face painting, and food were all part of MCC Full Time School's community picnic Saturday afternoon on the school's grounds. The school has been putting on the celebration for a handful of years now. Although most in attendance at the event were current and former students of MCC and their parents, the event was open to the general public and is meant to bring neighbors together. "We continue to try and build relationships with the community, who has been very supportive of us in the past," stated MCC Principal Habeeb Quadri. "The best way for people to get to know each other is through experience and interaction."
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Iftikhar Ahmad
2:51 pm on Monday, June 13, 2011
Bilingual Muslims children have a right, as much as any other faith group, to be taught their culture, languages and faith alongside a mainstream curriculum. More faith schools will be opened under sweeping reforms of the education system in England. There is a dire need for the growth of state funded Muslim schools to meet the growing needs and demands of the Muslim parents and children. Now the… more ›