Similar to Rob Goldman's "I Matter" project, my local Muslim community instills that same sense of purpose among Muslim youth by hosting "Muslims For Life" blood drives each year around Sept. 11.
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By Rizwan Alladin | September 12, 2014
As a Long Island-born Muslim, it disturbed me greatly to read that a convert to the faith I love and practice joined Islam for the purpose of creating violence and chaos -- a philosophy so diametrically opposite to the religion.
I'm grateful to my greater Long Island community that it has made me feel as though I matter, such that these radical thoughts never entered my mind in my 40 years of life. Similar to Rob Goldman's "I Matter" project, my local Muslim community instills that same sense of purpose among Muslim youth by hosting "Muslims For Life" blood drives each year around Sept. 11.
In the end, as Anne Michaud so accurately pointed out, community leaders must work collectively to let all of our youth know that they do, indeed, matter. I can tell you that our mosque's doors are open to Long Island.
Rizwan Alladin, Amityville
Editor's note: The writer is the vice president of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community of Long Island.
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