City of Residence: North Minneapolis, MN Occupation: Homemaker, retired daycare provider Excerpt: “I came to Islam under Elijah Muhammad, the Nation of Islam. Eventually when his son Warith Deen took the leadership role in I think it was 1975 and he brought what I call the Orthodox Islam to us at that time. The Qur’an—I always had …
City of Residence: Brooklyn Center, MN Occupation: Vice President of Transportation and Logistics at Wells Fargo Excerpt: “It was a politically dangerous situation at the time because Idi Amin was threatening the Asian community to be treated no different than the Jewish people that were treated in Germany, and so there was a discussion, or a talk, …
City of Residence: Brooklyn Park, MN Occupation: Director of the Islamic University of Minnesota Excerpt: “My first session, I remember, in summer 1989, going to the highest maximum security in state of Minnesota prison, didn’t know what to expect. I went there and I found about probably 10, 12 Muslims waiting for me, and I have to …
City of Residence: Washington D.C. Occupation: National Communications Director for Council on American Islamic Relations Excerpt: “We saw that there was a need for a Muslim civil rights group in the mode of the NAACP, the ADL, even at times the ACLU and that was missing particularly at the national level. The Muslim community was very dispirited and …