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Freedom Foundation
Overview
America has witnessed the expansion of Islam from a few mosques in urban
cities to today's rural south and the Midwestern heartland, or as one poet
put it, 'from sea to shining sea. ' Muslim schools, businesses, political
organizations, associations, and institutions, inundate the landscape of America.
Despite Islam's growth in America, there are certain groups in and outside of
America that have long used bigoted distortions of Islam; portraying Muslims
in America as seditious, dangerous, and totally incompatible with American
life. Since the Sept. 11th tragedy, these same forces have intensified this
vile propaganda with reckless abandonment. It is important that Muslims in
America not be viewed as a 'fifth column.' Muslims must continue to build a
grassroots movement that supports an all-encompassing approach of total
integration into American Society for the express purpose of fulfilling the
mandate of Allah (SWT) 'to enjoin that which is good and forbid that which is
bad,' in a quest to make a better America for ourselves, our children, and all
Americas.
Our Mission
To build an integrated empowerment process for the American Muslim community
through civic education, participation, community outreach, and coalition
building; to forge positive relationships with other institutions outside of
our community, that will ensure and facilitate the protection of civil rights
and liberties for American Muslims and all Americans.
Methodology
Masjid-based grassroots education, local leadership training, youth training,
coalition building and networking, and special events towards positively
impacting mainstream America.
Focus
Engagement of the following American institutions and organizations in order
to build a broad based coalition that will enhance the religious political
and social viability of the American Muslim Community:
- Voter Registration & Education Organizations
- Local civic groups
- Municipal & state officials
- Congress
- Civil rights and progressive political groups: NAACP, ACLU, ANSWER,
SCLC, CRLC
- Organized labor
- The Media
- College campuses
- Immigrant groups, Black, Hispanic, & Asian churches, & other non-Muslim
religious institutions
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IQAMAH TIMES AT
MAS YOUTH CENTER
(As of 05/18/08) |
Fajr: 4:45 am
Zuhr: 1:05 pm
Asr: 5:15 pm
Maghreb: 10 min after sunset
Isha: 9:15 pm
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EVENT CALENDAR
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Second Saturday of every month -
'MAS Family Night'
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