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From: yusef1...@gmail.com <yusef1...@gmail.com>
Subject: American Muslim Leadership Program
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"Shinoa" <telami...@yahoo.com>, "Saeed Al Dhaheri" <sa...@zhic.ae>, "Curtis
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Date: Tuesday, February 24, 2009, 10:39 PM
The American Muslim Leadership Program, was a success.
AL Hajji Yusef Maisonet
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American Muslim Leadership Program
Dr. Raffas , Dr. Bassen , Dr. Bassam Alzain , Director Khalid Marzouki ,
with Khalid Ahmed
Twenty One American Sisters made this historical trip to Al AIN , UAE to
attend this program,of leadership and cultural exchange thanks to Brother
Khalid Ahmed and also to Khalid Marsouki the director of the program, they were
so impress by how the brothers program went so well last year that they wanted
to see how the American sisters would take advantage of this program,we had
sisters from all corners of America and little by little they came to
Washington D.C. ,Abimbola Bishi , Intisar Rashid , Lola Al-Uqdah , Michaela
Elizabeth Corning , Anton Patricia , Shaakira Raheem , Erica Charves , Khadijah
Shareef , Tahanie Aboushi , Vita Milagros Rivera , Zarinah Zakiyyah Shakir ,
Joann Skinner , Angelique Lynn Godley , Loretta Al-Uqdah , Shirley Cooper ,
Shelia Watson , Maryam Rashid Washington , Malika Rushdan , Shinoa Matos ,
Aseelah Rashid and Khadijah Rashid.
We visited while in Washington D.C. with the second Muslim Congressman Andre
Carson of Indianapolis and with members of the ACMY American Congress of Muslim
Youth and were able to share some good points of being involved in the American
Process of changing for the better and getting to know a little about the
Political vision that America is going. Our stay in Washington D.C. was very
short as we got ready to depart to the UAE. We departed Thursday Dec. 11 at
10:00pm we flew Qatar Air Lines , the economy class felt like first class
beautiful Airline its was a 12 hour flight to Doha, Qatar and another 55
minutes to Abu Dhabi, UAE, they were waiting on our arrival and they welcome
the sisters like Queens , no waiting on lines all passports taken care of
baggage everything, they just had to drive to AL AIN about an hour away, on
arrival to AL AIN the sisters just had to decide who was going to be their room
mates in Villas to accommodate 3 sister per
Villa everything that they will need for the next 30 days was
provided. The next morning after an Emirate style breakfast they were taken to
Oasis Hospital for check ups and to issue them insurance cards for any medical
needs that they would experience while attending the School. The United Arab
Emirates was founded in 1971 by the late Shaykh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan(
may his soul rest in peace). The Eastern Arabia peninsula has been
predominately Muslim since the time of the Prophet Muhammed(peace be upon
him)there are over 170 nationalities in the Emirates population.
Zayed House of Islamic Culture was reestablished by presidential decree in
2005 as center for Islamic culture a place for exchange and promotion of the
values and ideas of Islamic culture, Zayed house is an independent government
entity funded by the Crown Prince. And their goal is to teach moderate Islam to
the American Muslims and to have an intercultural exchange with their friends
and brothers and sisters in America.
The visits that they have graciously attended have served to strengthens
the friendship that these two countries share for the world (Peace). The
sisters represented all aspects of Islam in America Latinos , Caucasian ,
Africans and Afro American sisters and myself that attended the Imam Training
Program have to give it up for the sisters , they are learning all the
knowledge they can get , and as Khalid Ahmed says we have to continue to
educate our brothers and sisters in the United States Of America to make this
world a better place for our children.
Imam Yusef Maisonet
