Monday, January 3, 2011

Faith and Loyalty: Young U.S. Muslims for peace

Our mission is not merely to prevent our Muslims kids from becoming a liability to society. It is to make them true servants of God by serving humanity and their nation. I believe that all Muslim youth organizations today can wage the same jihad against terror by shaping our next generation into ambassadors for peace.

Ahmadiyya Times | News Watch | US Desk
Source/Credit: The Providence Journal
By Sohail Husain | December 31, 2010

There has been a recent deluge of debate about “homegrown terror.” The term refers mostly to young Muslims growing up in America who succumb to extremist ideology, thereby becoming domestic enemies of the state.

I am a member of the U.S. Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Community. In contrast to the extremists, we train our Muslim-American youth to love their fellow man, to be loyal citizens and to serve as Muslims for peace. We even placed a pricey ad on the New York Times Square billboard this holiday season with a similar message to all youth.

Our mission is not merely to prevent our Muslims kids from becoming a liability to society. It is to make them true servants of God by serving humanity and their nation. I believe that all Muslim youth organizations today can wage the same jihad against terror by shaping our next generation into ambassadors for peace.


Sohail Husain, M.D., New Haven

The writer is vice president of the Connecticut Chapter of SA Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Youth Organization and an assistant professor of pediatricgastroenterology at the Yale Medical School.


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  1. AnonymousJanuary 3, 2011 at 4:57 PM

    COMMENT: No, we are not going to be frightened http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2011%5C01%5C03%5Cstory_3-1-2011_pg3_5

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