Who: Our J.U.A. group walked through Boston today and visited some Mosque’s
What: There were two different Mosque’s; Roxbury Mosque and the Islamic Society of Boston Mosque. We talked with an Islamic woman who answered all of our questions very thoroughly and taught our group a lot about the Islamic society. We watched a prayer that was neat to see because it is very different from the religion that we are used to, Christianity. She said that she did not “hate” us. They do not look at American’s like we look at Muslims. She told us that there are bad people in every culture and then there are good people in each culture, which was eye opening because Muslims do have a lot of good people that we do not acknowledge.
Where: Roxbury, MA and Cambridge, MA. The Roxbury Mosque is the biggest mosque in the Northeast and it has caused a lot of controversy. Reason being that people are worried about where the funding has come from and when the public thinks of Muslims and Islam, they think terrorists.
Why: To learn and get educated about the Islamic culture and why they practice like they do. We asked many questions that implied the questioning of why the we thought that the Muslims hated us. Again she told us that they do not hate us. There are many people in the Islamic culture that do, but most of them are good people. She also told us that she encounters a lot of discrimination that hurts her feelings. She said, “I would rather have them ignore me and act as if I wasn’t even there, then to say mean some about me.”
When: December 18, 2007; First day of J.U.A., temperature was FREEZING Started out about 11:00 am and got back to the Hostel around 3:30 pm.
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"Reason being that people are worried about where the funding has come from and when the public thinks of Muslims and Islam, they think terrorists."
Unfortunately, the ISB DOES have quite a few links to terrorist and supporters of terrorism, including the ISB's founder, Abdurahman Alamoudi, and several proposed and actual trustees (Sheihk Yusuf Qaradawi, Dr. Walid Fitaihi and Dr. Jamal Badawi). They have brought a number of Islamic fundamentalists to talk at their mosque, including Salah Soltan and Siraj Wahaj. It is not that people are "wrong" or "prejudiced" because they have concerns about this particular mosque. Unfortunately, the record shows that the ISB has demonstrated ties to some unsavory peopple who have said very troubling things.
Hi Kelly, thanks for your engagement with our students. How did you find us?
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