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Lecture Title:  Islamophobia

Presenter: Tahira Amatul-Wadud

Wednesday October 11th  12:00-1:00

C208 Community Room

Greenfield Community College

Attorney Tahirah Amatul-Wadud of Springfield discusses the state of affairs for Muslims in America in light of policies being made in the current political climate.

Ms. Amatul-Wadud is an attorney with a practice in domestic relations law and civil rights. She is a graduate of Elms College in Chicopee and Western New England University School of Law, in Springfield where she resides. She’s a volunteer commissioner on the Mass. Commission on the Status of Women and a board member for the Massachusetts chapter for the Council on American Islamic Relations. She has recently been chosen to serve on the Family Advisory Council for Boston Children’s Hospital. Ms. Amatul-Wadud was named a Top Woman of Law for 2016 by Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly.

 Did you know:  Mosque Bombing Aug 5th, Bloomington, MN

"Every Other American Should Be Insulted by This" said worshiper Dar Al-Farooq in a newspaper interview with the Minneapolis Tribune.  This moving image of four Moslem girls praying outside the mosque (see yellow police tape in the background) should move each of us to outrage.  While I had seen the image at a lecture, when I tried to find it online, I had to go to a news site in the UK.  It was lost in the noise of the Charleston race riots.   Invisibility is a means of oppression.  Let's not forget.