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Article: Fighting fear with information; The Islamic Resource Group has found its mission intensified since Sept. 11, and Twin Cities students seem receptive to the message: Please don't fear all Muslims.(NEWS)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
- Article date:
- September 29, 2001
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Byline: Allie Shah; Staff Writer
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Zafar Siddiqui wants people to see his face - a brown, bearded face with kind eyes and a peaceful smile.
It's the face of Islam, not of terrorism, he says.
Siddiqui began taking his face and his case to Twin Cities classrooms this week as a member of the newly formed Islamic Resource Group's speakers bureau. His first stop: Hopkins High School in Minnetonka, a place with very few faces like his.
What began this summer as a program to educate Minnesotans about Muslims and to combat prejudice took on a greater urgency after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. U.S. officials have said ...