Asalam 'Alaikum
1) Please read about ADAMS Scouting in the Washington Post:
Click here to read.
2) ADAMS in Time Magazine of Nov 21, 2005
Please read the Time Magazine article about Imam Magid and ADAMS Center.
Please see Time Magazine's Online Picture Essay about Imam Magid and ADAMS Community:
http://www.time.com/time/photoessays/imam_america/1.html
MODERATE MUSLIM CLERICS IN THE U.S. TEND TO THEIR FAITHFUL--AND HELP THE FBI FIGHT
TERRORISTS
DOUGLAS WALLER STERLING, Time, 11/21/05
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1129587,00.html
IT WAS ON SEPT. 10, A DAY SHY OF THE fourth anniversary of the attack on the World
Trade Center, that Imam Mohamed Magid met terrorism's victims face to face. He was
presiding at the funeral on Long Island for the daughter and son-in-law of Bangladeshi
Americans from his Sterling, Va., mosque. The children, who were at work in the
North Tower, perished in the Sept. 11 attack, but not until this past August had
medical examiners identified enough of their charred tissue and bone fragments for
the parents to hold a funeral. Staring at the two wooden boxes covered with green
embroidered cloth and surrounded by grieving family members, the Muslim cleric was
gripped by both sadness and rage. "The terrorists who kill in the name of Islam
claim they are the martyrs," Magid told TIME later, the anger still roiling him.
"But the victims are the martyrs. The terrorists are the murderers, and God will
deal with them on Judgment Day."
From his mosque in Virginia, Magid, like many of the some 600 full-time imams across
the country, is fighting his own war against radicals trying to hijack his religion.
For Magid that has meant not only condemning terrorism but also working closely
with the FBI in battling it. He regularly opens doors for agents trying to cultivate
contacts in his Muslim community, and he alerts the bureau when suspicious persons
approach his congregation. That puts him in a precarious position: How does he maintain
credibility as a spiritual adviser while, in effect, he is informing on fellow Muslims?
To understand that balancing act, TIME spent two weeks following Magid as he raced
from prayer to prayer, meeting to meeting, in the strange new world of American
Muslim ministry.
Please read the rest of the article on:
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1129587,00.html
Wa'Salam 'Alaikum
Rizwan Jaka
President, All Dulles Area Muslim Society(ADAMS)
www.adamscenter.org
Board Member,
Interfaith Conference of Metropolitan Washington
www.ifcmw.org
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