Labor Day Breakfast

Labor Day Breakfast 

8/25/2013

Assalam Alaikum

Re: Invitation to Labor Day Breakfast 10 AM-Noon, Monday, September 2, 2013

You are cordially invited to a special Labour Day Breakfast at Malton Islamic Centre which is bringing the leaders from all across the GTA area.

Because of your critical work in the Muslim community and active participation in the Interfaith movement I'm inviting you to meet our Chief Guest Imam Malik Mujahid, Chair of Parliament of World Religions, visiting from Chicago. The Parliament is the largest interfaith body in the world. He would like to hear from your interfaith experience. Imam Mujahid will also make a presentation about the Muslim community and the challenges of participation in the interfaith movement.

You are most welcome to bring your respected spouse at this specially hosted breakfast by friends of Interfaith in the Muslim community of Toronto.

What: Breakfast Presentation: Working Together for a Better World When: 10 AM-Noon, Monday, September 2, 2013 Where: Malton Islamic Centre, 6836 Professional Court Mississauga ON.

RSVP hab2u@hotmail.com 

Please invite someone you may think is appropriate for this event.

Thanks
Habeeb Alli

Please see a bio for Imam Mujahid below:

Imam Mujahid was selected as one the 500 most influential Muslims in the world in 2011 & 2012. He is an Imam at the Down Town Islamic Center of Chicago and President of Sound Vision Foundation.

Imam Mujahid serves as Chairman of the Parliament of the World's Religions. He was elected three times to this position. Previously he served as vice chair twice. Previously he served on the Council of Religious Leaders of Metropolitan Chicago which is composed of chief leaders of the Greater Chicago faith communities.

He is active with think tanks in the US. He served as a member of the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations’ Task Force on The Civic and Political Integration of Muslim Americans, in 2007. He also has served on the Independent Task Force on Civil Liberties and National Security by the Council on Foreign Relations in New York from 2006-2009.

Imam has played a leading role in bringing Universal health coverage for children under 18 in the state of Illinois.

As the national coordinator of the Bosnia Task Force, USA, in the ’90s, he successfully led efforts in collaboration with the National Organization of Women (NOW) to declare rape as a war crime.

Imam Mujahid has authored more than 400 articles on Islamic living and public policy. He is a blogger at HuffingtonPost. His book on political sociology was the winner of an Outstanding Academic Book of the Year Award by American Library Association in 1990.