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AMWA’S Interfaith Movie-Enemy of the Reich
AMWA’s Chairperson:Dr. Mahjabeen Hassan
AMWA’s Summer Interfaith Luncheon,2009
AMWA Marks Anniversary with Dinner
By Brian J. Howard The Journal News • November 3, 2008 CORTLANDT - That some Americans believe Barack Obama is a Muslim dismays Zakia Mahasa, but not so much as the implication behind the misperception. "And if he were, so what?" asked Mahasa, the first Muslim woman...
AMWA Hosts White Plains talk by Faith Club
By GARY STERN THE JOURNAL NEWS (Original publication: June 7, 2007) WHITE PLAINS - The Faith Club started small, uncertain, frightened. Its three members - one Jew, one Christian, one Muslim - had shaky holds on their own faiths (and mostly apprehension about the...
Spiritually Speaking
God's October Surprise (Source: White Plains Watch) In a series of events, Westchester faith communities are noting the rare confluence of religious events during October and November. It has been named "God's October Surprise," which refers to the proximity on the...
Making their voices heard
BY MARY VOBORIL STAFF WRITER October 6, 2005 Daisy Khan isn't surprised to find that Islamic women began organizing in the days after 9/11, even in such far-flung states as South Dakota and Minnesota. But she is surprised that, given the ever-more-public concerns they...
Westchester Muslims to pay tribute to leaders
By GARY STERN gstern@thejournalnews.com THE JOURNAL NEWS (Original publication: June 15, 2005) For the first time, Westchester's Muslim community will honor its top leaders and student volunteers. A ceremony will be held at 5:30 p.m. Friday at the Scarsdale Public...
Seeking common ground for faith
By GARY STERN gstern@thejournalnews.com THE JOURNAL NEWS (Original publication: June 3, 2005) The very idea of what constitutes an Islamic society has become so convoluted that Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf hopes to devise a quirky, almost subversive way of measuring true...
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