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Future Leaders Safaa Zarzour (secretary general, ISNA), who keynoted the annual fundraising dinner of Lexington’s Universal Academy on 11 Apr., shared his personal and professional experience on how the country’s Islamic schools are forming future Muslim leaders: “In Chicago alone, only 0.5% of Muslim high school graduates come from Islamic schools, yet 60% of the Muslim student leadership at Chicago universities are graduates of Islamic schools.� At a fundraiser for the Minaret Academy in Anaheim on 7 Mar., he emphasized the importance of Islamic education. Pointing out that America’s Jews and Catholics were able to establish successful educational institutions despite religious discrimination, he suggested that Muslims could learn from them. He also met with the region’s community leaders and discussed ISNA’s role and support for Islamic schools, youth programs, leadership training, and community cooperation. On 22 Apr., this self-identified Chicagoan joined more than 1,000 Muslims from across Illinois in Springfield, the state capital, for the second annual Muslim ACTION! Day. In addition, he was part of a delegation that met with legislators to discuss better opportunities for public school students, healthy food choices for inner city residents, preventing foreclosures for struggling families, empowering immigrants, and thwarting deportations by the local police. This event was coordinated by the Council of Islamic Organizations of Greater Chicago.
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IMAM NEEDED The Islamic Association of Mid-Cities located in Colleyville, Texas is seeking a qualified Imam to lead this community.
ISNA Sponsors US-Gulf Interfaith
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SNA organized a high-level interfaith roundtable discussion and luncheon in Washington, DC, on 26 Apr. The event, “To Each a Key: Unlocking the Door to Interfaith Harmony,� which welcomed the Doha International Center for Interfaith Dialogue (DICID), was attended by religious figures from across the nation. Imam Mohamed Magid (vice president, ISNA-US) addressed the opening session. A roundtable discussion of thirty national interfaith leaders was moderated by Dr. Sayyid M. Syeed (national director, ISNA Office of Interfaith Alliances and Community Initiatives). During it, Dr. Khalid Bin Nasser Al-Khater and Dr. Hamed Abdulaziz AlMarwani, both DICID board members, familiarized the audience with the DICID, the Gulf
region’s largest and most respected interfaith entity. Reports about its projects and activities in America were also given. Safaa Zarzour (secretary general, ISNA) and Cardinal Theodore McCarrick (Archdiocese of Washington) discussed ongoing efforts to promote such dialogue. Dr. Al-Marwani expounded upon the center’s mission and achievements. Mara Vanderslice (deputy director, White House Office of Faith Based and Neighborhood Partnerships) expressed the Obama administration’s positive outlook and goals regarding interfaith work. Rashad Hussain (U.S. Special Envoy to the OIC) reaffirmed the administration’s commitment to the primacy of dialogue and trust building between America and Muslim communities around the world.
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