Warming Up To The Process
A new conversation is beginning in the Muslim community. We are slowly moving away from the old thinking of isolation and beginning to take the opportunity to engage the community and respond to the massive challenges facing our communities. Initially there was a lot of resistance to this (still is), but the good news is that more and Muslims are showing this new (old) attitude of engagement rather than sitting on the sidelines and essentially tolerating the destruction of the lives of an entire generation of young people …Here is an article about the Germantown Community’s warming to the process (Thanks to Taahir for sending this)
It’s not often that a white guy walks through the front door of the Islamic books and tapes shop in East Germantown. Even less frequently does that white guy ask questions about whom members of the nearby Masjid, or mosque, might be thinking about voting for in the upcoming primary election. Imagine a needle skipping off a record and everyone’s head turning.
Yes, there was an air of suspicion among the men gathered in the shop
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[...] that the leadership of the Germantown Masjid is working on changing things as Tariq talks about in this post. Credit where credit’s [...]