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Islamo-fascism Week prompts students to hold service event
Issue date: 11/29/07
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The Gilman tunnel is not exactly the ideal location for a bakery, scarf factory and artists' meeting spot to coexist.
And yet, for four hours on Friday, Nov. 16, 21 student groups came together in the name of service and changed that.
Hopkins's first collaborative day of service, called "Healing a Fractured World," was organized by the Muslim Student Association (JHUMA) and the Interfaith Community with active involvement by campus service, awareness and religious groups.
The event was meant to create a "commitment to a better tomorrow through community service based on understanding and coexistence," according to the event's publicity.
Seniors Farah Qureshi and Brittany Schriver organized and led the event.
"Originally, 'Healing a Fractured World' was supposed to be a small collaborative event between JHUMA and Habitat for Humanity (HFH), as a reaction to [David Horowitz's] Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week," Schriver said.
The plan was originally for JHUMA and HFH to organize a day of service in which all the campus religious groups would be invited to build a house in Baltimore one afternoon, Qureshi said.
This year, Qureshi is serving as a fellow for the Interfaith Youth Core (IFYC).
The organization based in Chicago that promotes interfaith work and raises awareness about the separation the separation between pluralism and totalitarianism in religion.
It was through the IFYC that she heard about the Horowitz campaign, which spread over 150 U.S. college campuses.
"My role as a fellow at Hopkins is to promote dialogue and religious pluralism on our campus in new and creative ways, and to work with already existing organizations to show the greater Baltimore community that fostering peaceful, meaningful relations between a diverse people of different faiths is not only a fundamental tenant of this country, but also absolutely essential to our progress as a people," Qureshi said.
She explained that the IFYC launched its own series of alternative programming on campuses.
And yet, for four hours on Friday, Nov. 16, 21 student groups came together in the name of service and changed that.
Hopkins's first collaborative day of service, called "Healing a Fractured World," was organized by the Muslim Student Association (JHUMA) and the Interfaith Community with active involvement by campus service, awareness and religious groups.
The event was meant to create a "commitment to a better tomorrow through community service based on understanding and coexistence," according to the event's publicity.
Seniors Farah Qureshi and Brittany Schriver organized and led the event.
"Originally, 'Healing a Fractured World' was supposed to be a small collaborative event between JHUMA and Habitat for Humanity (HFH), as a reaction to [David Horowitz's] Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week," Schriver said.
The plan was originally for JHUMA and HFH to organize a day of service in which all the campus religious groups would be invited to build a house in Baltimore one afternoon, Qureshi said.
This year, Qureshi is serving as a fellow for the Interfaith Youth Core (IFYC).
The organization based in Chicago that promotes interfaith work and raises awareness about the separation the separation between pluralism and totalitarianism in religion.
It was through the IFYC that she heard about the Horowitz campaign, which spread over 150 U.S. college campuses.
"My role as a fellow at Hopkins is to promote dialogue and religious pluralism on our campus in new and creative ways, and to work with already existing organizations to show the greater Baltimore community that fostering peaceful, meaningful relations between a diverse people of different faiths is not only a fundamental tenant of this country, but also absolutely essential to our progress as a people," Qureshi said.
She explained that the IFYC launched its own series of alternative programming on campuses.
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