{"id":101,"date":"2014-01-21T00:12:17","date_gmt":"2014-01-21T00:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/irgmn.org\/muslimexperience\/?p=101"},"modified":"2014-01-21T00:12:17","modified_gmt":"2014-01-21T00:12:17","slug":"episode-29-audrey-williams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/irgmn.org\/muslimexperience\/episode-29-audrey-williams\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode 29 – Audrey Williams"},"content":{"rendered":"

City of Residence:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Fridley, MN<\/p>\n

Occupation:<\/strong><\/p>\n

School Principal<\/p>\n

Excerpt:<\/strong><\/p>\n

“When I had finished my teaching degree at Macalester College, I worked at a school\u00a0called Muslim Community School and a year after I started there it had some\u00a0financial issues and it stopped being a school. My two younger sons were little, one\u00a0was coming up to about pre-school and my husband and I were talking, you know,\u00a0what could we do?. We lived in Saint Paul, West side; and we had a big house, so we\u00a0started with twelve students; and my husband taught Arabic and Islamic studies and\u00a0I taught the English subjects, and we did that for that year. The next year there were\u00a029 students and there is no way that I could do that myself; so there were a couple\u00a0of mothers who are now both in education; one was a principal in Morocco, and the\u00a0other one is a leading speaker in Houston, Texas. We got it together and we taught\u00a029 children in our house; the house was full, the only place that was left that was not\u00a0school, and blackboards and desks, was our bedrooms.<\/p>\n

The next year we had fifty-four and that was just way too much; and it was\u00a0infringing on our privacy too much; so, we came to the Islamic Center and we\u00a0begged them. We said, \u201cYou have this beautiful school throughout the week empty,\u00a0completely empty. We would really like it if you could rent us rooms\u201d on the old\u00a0building side on the right and on the left, that first hallway; and alhamdulillah we\u00a0convinced them and the school\u2019s been here ever since.<\/p>\n

What I\u2019m proud of at school is that it has continued and become a very good school;\u00a0a new building, so the community has come together and supported it.<\/p>\n

One of the things that I\u2019ve learned through my experience in life is that faith-based\u00a0institutions are extremely the same. We\u2019re teaching values to our kids; and if we get\u00a0into relationships with those faith-based communities, we\u2019ll make a bigger\u00a0community. Whether it\u2019s a Christian issue, or a Jewish issue, or a Muslim issue, it\u2019s\u00a0really when we stick together we have more power.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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City of Residence: Fridley, MN Occupation: School Principal Excerpt: “When I had finished my teaching degree at Macalester College, I worked at a school\u00a0called Muslim Community School and a year after I started there it had some\u00a0financial issues and it stopped being a school. My two younger sons were little, one\u00a0was coming up to about …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":104,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ep","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/irgmn.org\/muslimexperience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/irgmn.org\/muslimexperience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/irgmn.org\/muslimexperience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/irgmn.org\/muslimexperience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/irgmn.org\/muslimexperience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/irgmn.org\/muslimexperience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105,"href":"http:\/\/irgmn.org\/muslimexperience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions\/105"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/irgmn.org\/muslimexperience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/irgmn.org\/muslimexperience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/irgmn.org\/muslimexperience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/irgmn.org\/muslimexperience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}