ISBN : 9782296065321
THE SALIENT ROLE OF CIVIC SOCIETY IN PROMOTING INTERFAITH DIALOGUE
Mohamed Brahimi
I have thought long and hard about an appropriate way to lead into my topic and decided to open up with an anecdote that is cute, poignant, and heartwarming. As an American Muslim of Eight years of age, my son Malik has already been in the public school system for about 3 years. Malik and his Brothers were the only Muslim kids in a school that was ranked pretty high in the state of Massachusetts. And that was mainly why my wife and I decided to live an hour outside of Boston and afford our kids the opportunity to be in a good school. The alternative was to move a half hour north of Boston and put the kids in an Islamic school that had just opened up and was in a sense running a pilot program in terms of curriculum and pedagogy. Needless to say, this school had a lot to prove to the parents in order to remain open. Parents gave that school rave...