Article: COLORADO MUSLIMS ASPIRE TO BECOME A POLITICAL FORCE.(News)

Byline: Jean Torkelson, Rocky Mountain News

Next year, Anwar Ahmed hopes his cheerfully cluttered travel agency will also be a base for a part-time job he'd like to get: city councilman of Centennial.

Ahmed, who is president of the Aurora Muslim Society, is among a growing number of Muslims who are becoming involved in American public life. Their positions vary, from the police chief in Philadelphia, to Senate candidate Abdul Akbar, a Democrat who aspired to be "the highest-ranking Muslim in Georgia state history" before being defeated in Tuesday's primary.

Win, lose, but always participate. That could be the slogan for political hopefuls such as the effervescent ...

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