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Coinciding with the Democratic National Convention, ISNA and the National Religious Campaign Against Torture (NRCAT) co-sponsored a breakfast in
Philadelphia on July 27 for fellowship and to talk about issues of concern to Muslims during this election year. The event highlighted how ISNA has
2016-17 MYNA OFFICERS TAKE CHARGE MYNA welcomed its new officers for 2016-17. The incoming Executive Committee and Regional Executive Committee will begin their training and take office at the ISNA Convention during Labor Day weekend. President: Alaa Abdeldaeim (Crown Point, Ind.), Vice President: Sana Khan (Carbondale, Ill.), Program Chair: Zeba Kokan (Carmel, Ind.), Outreach Chair: Hadeel Abdallah (Lexington, Ky.), Treasurer: Sana Baban (Gainesville, Fla.), Secretary: Sarah Siddiqui (Dayton, Ohio) and Public Relations Chair: Yaseen Najeeb (Milwaukee, Wis.) Chair: Mariam Soliman (Cincinnati, Ohio) is chair of the Midwest Regional Executive Committee; Program Chair: Ozair Hasan (Dayton, Ohio), Secretary: Izza Ghani (Flint, Mich.), Finance Chair: Nabiha Mushtaq (Louisville, Ky.) and Public Relations Chair: Hoda Shalash (Lexington, Ky.). Yousef Abdeldaiem (Crown Point, Ind.) is chair of the North Central Regional Executive Committee; Program Chair: Ameer Qadri (Naperville, Ill.), Secretary: Nabila Qadri (Naperville, Ill.), Finance
Chair: Haroon Khan (Lindenhurst, Ill.) and Public Relations Chair: Dina Hussein (Crown Point, Ind.). Mouadh Ayachi (Dallas, Texas) is chair of the South Central Regional Executive Committee; Program Chair: Aisha Ahmed (Dallas, Texas), Secretary: Dalia El-Giar (West Monroe, La.), Finance Chair: Aseel Atalla (Phoenix, Ariz.) and Public Relations Chair: Hammad Husain (Wichita, Kan.). All officers of the Midatlantic Regional Executive Committee are from Washington, D.C. Ameenah Habib is chair; Program Chair: Duha Salem, Secretary: Hasib Zaman, Finance Chair: Abduelwahab Hussein and Public Relations Chair: Amani Hagmagid. Juveriyah Salat (Fremont, Calif.) is California Regional Executive Committee Chair; Program Chair: Aliyah Rasheed (Fremont, Calif.), Secretary: Azza Abid (Fremont. Calif.), Finance Chair: Zainab Khan (Fremont, Calif.) and Public Relations Chair: Shayan Bawaney (Dublin, Calif.). MYNA inaugurated it newest chapter, MYNA Milwaukee, which has been meeting and planning for local MYNA events since Feb. 20, 2016. On June 24 its members hosted their first event, a MYNA Qiyam. Nearly 40
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fostered inter-religious partnerships to address domestic and international issues that are critical to our country’s future. The danger of proposals advocating the exclusion of Muslims is palpable and leads the nation away from achieving the “common good.” It was reiterated that anti-Muslim rhetoric makes America less, not more, safe. Speakers included Rabbi Nancy Fuchs-Kreimer, Director, Department of Multifaith Studies and Initiatives and Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, Wyncote, Pa., Catherine Orsborn, Shoulderto-Shoulder, Patricia Anton, graduate student, Hartford Seminary, Sayyid M. Syeed, Rev. Ron Stief, executive director of NRCAT, Rev. Richard Cizik, president of the New Evangelical Partnership for the Common Good, and Dr. Christopher Bail, assistant professor of Sociology at Duke University. NRCAT, based in Washington, D.C., is a decade-old national interfaith coalition of over 300 mainline Protestant, Evangelical, Catholic, Muslim, Sikh, and other faith organizations. youth turned out, including some from out of state, and the feedback was overwhelmingly positive. Among the featured sessions were a workshop on using your time wisely, some exciting icebreaker games to get to know each other and a talk about youth activism by Qari Noman Hussain, imam/religious director at Masjid-Al-Huda in Greenfield, Wisc. and founder of Ilm Oasis. In July, this new chapter hosted a community service outing at St. Vincent de Paul’s Soup Kitchen in downtown Milwaukee.
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