Thursday, November 15, 2012
No subject was off-limits as three Muslim educators good-naturedly handled questions on Islam from a large audience in Morton Grove. All had ties to the Morton Grove mosque, and wanted to help neighbors understand Islam better.
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Thursday, November 15, 2012
About 70 people filled the Morton Grove Library's Baxter room Wednesday to hear three Muslim educators, with ties to Morton Grove's Muslim Community Center, give a lively question and answer session about their faith. Habeeb Qadri, the principal of the MCC's Full Time School and a former staff member and student at Harvard University's Principals' Center, started the evening off with a brief introduction to Islam. Then he joined two others at a panel. They were Omer Mozaffer, who teaches at the University of Chicago's Graham School and is an adjunct professor of theology at Loyola University, and Abeer Saleh, who teaches science at the MCC's Full Time School. Earlier: Muslims invite neighbors to Global Fest at Morton Grove mosque Qadri'…
Thursday, September 29, 2011
“Fordson” opened to big crowds on the weekend of 9/11's 10th anniversary.
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. Director Rashid Ghazi doesn’t expect Fordson: Faith, Fasting, Football to make any money. The Glenview resident just thinks the documentary about the post-Sept. 11, 2001 Muslim-American experience needed to be made. Read more: A Review of Fordson: Faith, Fasting, Football Set in the Detroit suburb of Dearborn, Fordson tells the story of the football team at a predominantly Muslim-American high school. The high school students go through grueling practices leading up to a big rivalry game during Ramadan, a holy month where Muslims do not eat or drink from sunrise to sunset. Through interviews with …
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
How suspicion and curiosity shaped a Northwestern student's life.
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Tuesday, September 20, 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. Like most 9-year-olds, Aatifa Shareef didn’t really understand what was happening when terrorists attacked on Sept. 11, 2001. But as the country reeled from the destruction of the World Trade Center, Shareef, then a fifth grader in Columbus, Ohio, began to experience treatment she had never encountered before. “This one girl in my class … asked me, ‘Oh, is [Osama Bin Laden] your relative or something?’” said Shareef, who is of Indian descent. “I was so taken aback.” Muslim at Northwestern Shareef, 19, is now the co-president of the Muslim-cultural Students Association (McSA) at Northwestern …
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Thursday, September 15, 2011
School functions as a world hub.
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 Ayah Allam walks through the busy hallways of Maine East High School wearing an Islamic headscarf, she doesn't stand out from the crowd. The school, which draws students from Niles, Glenview, Morton Grove and Park Ridge, functions as a world hub, with students from 50 nationalities. Many arrive every year from foreign countries, and more than 70 percent speak a language other than English at home, according to teacher Barbara Englebert. As the United States commemorates the 10-year anniversary of 9/11, this tremendous diversity tends to create tolerance towards all groups, including Muslims, …
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
'Fordson' examines life and football in a predominantly Muslim city.
Many of the stories told in the documentary Fordson: Faith, Fasting, Football could come from any number of small towns across America. The film is set in a blue collar community with a passion for high school football. Caring coaches motivate their students. Teens dream of playing college ball and talk about the family members that inspired them to join the team. Small children play with footballs during potluck dinners on the patio, while their dads watch the game on TV. It’s a profoundly American story. It just happens to be one set in a town predominantly populated by Muslims of Arab descent. In the wake of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2011, many writers and filmmakers tried to address how the country was coming to terms with the…
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
Local Muslims discuss experiences since the September 11 attacks.
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. Ten years after 9/11, Mohammed Saiduzzaman is still getting used to the looks some non-Muslims give him -- the raised eyebrows, the suspicious stares. "[It's] like we have done something wrong," he explained. Saiduzzaman and Mir Shamsuddin, two prominent local Muslims, sat down recently at a roundtable with Patch to discuss their experiences since the September 11 attacks. Read more: Acclaimed Muslim Playright Returns to Hometown for Debut Skokie resident Mir Shamsuddin, a retired professor of medicine at Northwestern University, was accompanied by Saiduzzaman, president of the Dar-us-Sunnah …
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
A roundup of the region's major developments for Tuesday March 15.
Here's what's going on in Patch sites around you: Investor Wins $2 Million And Auto Dealership in Fraud Suit. New Trier Removes Teacher From School Pending Misconduct Investigation. Muslim School Eyes Leasing Deal With Catholic Church Local Musher Wins Russian Dogsled Race.
Saturday, November 6, 2010
Members of St. Andrew's Parish held a vigil in Glenview Friday night to pray for victims and survivors of an Oct. 31 massacre. Thousands will gather Nov. 8 at a rally in downtown Chicago.
Additional reporting by Jack Cupples, Pam DeFiglio and George Slefo. An attack that killed more than 60 people at a Catholic church in Baghdad Sunday has triggered a movement by Assyrian Christians in Glenview and surrounding areas. Iraq is home to a small number of Christians (many identifying with Assyrian, Chaldean or Syrian faiths), comprising less than 3 percent of the country's total population— Estimated at around 29 million. Approximately 66 percent of Iraq's Christian population has fled the country since 2003. Many of these Assyrian Christians have made their way to the U.S. Currently, Chicago is home to one of the largest concentrations of Assyrians in the country, according to Vasili Shoumanov, author of Assyrians in Chicago…
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Kelly
10:58 pm on Sunday, November 18, 2012
b garrett- every nation, and city, sadly has bigots that want to oppress people unlike them. Bigotry against Muslims un the U.S. is underreported in the U.S. while bigotry against non-Muslims in Muslim dominant countries is overreported. They are allowed to practice- that just isn't big news. more ›