{"id":148,"date":"2014-01-21T01:56:31","date_gmt":"2014-01-21T01:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/irgmn.org\/muslimexperience\/?p=148"},"modified":"2014-01-21T01:56:31","modified_gmt":"2014-01-21T01:56:31","slug":"episode-19-mohamed-elakkad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/irgmn.org\/muslimexperience\/episode-19-mohamed-elakkad\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode 19 – Mohamed Elakkad"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Roseville, MN<\/p>\n

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Retired Agronomist at the University of Minnesota<\/p>\n

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“Well, the greatest achievement we have I believe, from my heart, that we have too\u00a0many mosques, but we don\u2019t have unity among all this communities. But this is\u00a0achievement that everyone can go to pray in his place, which is about like, one mile\u00a0or two miles away from his place. I think this is a great achievement because the\u00a0rules in Minnesota here, you have to have a church every two miles. This is the rules.\u00a0And nowadays when I see that we have 56 mosques in Minneapolis and St. Paul\u00a0alone, OK, I think this is a great achievement.<\/p>\n

There are people fighting for one big place in Minnesota. I said, well, this one big\u00a0place probably if we are in these good-weather state, that would be more\u00a0meaningful. But because we have bad weather and people want to pray in close to\u00a0their homes, then I feel like this number of mosques, it will benefit the community\u00a0more than if we have centrally located one mosque.<\/p>\n

If you want to serve Muslim community, I would recommend you education,\u00a0education, and education. Don\u2019t stop because education never stops, even if you\u00a0finish your PhD degree. Try to educate yourself more and more and more because\u00a0this is the only\u2014make the Muslim people prosper in this country would be\u00a0education. And also, because if you are a very well educated, then you be worship\u00a0God more intensely and more faithfully because you understand the power and\u00a0make you believe more in God.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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