Honoring our Shared Humanity
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We’re Americans of diverse ethnic and religious backgrounds working together towards peace in our country and around the world.
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Our mission is to advance pluralism by educating, engaging, and empowering people and institutions to understand shared histories, bridge cultural and faith differences, confront interconnected forms of bias, and build inclusive, just communities.
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Behind Burqa, Student Gets An Education In Bigotry March 12, 2007, by Tracy Gordon Fox, Courant Staff Writer COLCHESTER — Caitlin Dean was raised not to discriminate against others because of their race or religion. But as a white suburban teen of Italian and Irish descent, she often wondered what it would be like to be the target of such abuse. She found out “behind the burqa.” The 15-year-old freshman volunteered with a few other students to wear traditional Muslim clothing to school for an entire day in February after a Middle Eastern Studies teacher at Bacon Academy announced that she was looking for students to promote her class by wearing the garb. Caitlin covered her slender frame and short brown hair with a periwinkle burqa, which concealed her face. Read MoreNew Speakers Bureau in Columbus, Ohio
ING Initiates Speakers Bureau, Conducts Teacher Training in Ohio, 3/24-3/25/07 ING initiated a new speaker bureau in Columbus this weekend for the Al-Noor Islamic Cultural Center with an all day Speakers Training program on Saturday in Columbus, followed by an advanced speakers training for the Tours and Talks Education Outreach Program at the Islamic Center of Greater Cincinnati on Sunday. The 9-5 sessions, which were attended by 60 the first day and 30 the second covered topics related to becoming an effective speaker in public institutions. The intensive workshops addressed the following presentations which ING speakers are often requested to give: “Teaching About Religion in Public Schools,” “Roots of Islam in America,” “Islamic Contributions to Civilization and Culture,” “Healthcare for the Muslim Patient,” “Orientation on Islam and Interacting Effectively with Muslim Students” for teachers, “Working with the Arab and American Muslim Communities” for police, and “Arab and Muslim Americans in the Workplace” for managers. Read MoreHappy Holidays from ING
(San Jose, 4/3/07) Happy Holidays to all our friends and colleagues! The first week of April this year brings together a remarkable convergence of holidays, including Palm Sunday, Good Friday, and Easter for both Eastern and Western Christians and Passover (Pesach) for Jews. The month continues with Nirvana Day for Buddhists and Vaisakhi Day (solar New Year) for Hindus and Sikhs. Read MoreListening to Those We Serve
The entire experience of planning a series of seminars with ING was inspirational. They did an amazing job. The ING team welcomed input along the way which allowed each session to be even better than the one before it. We will continue to work with ING as I am confident that they will continue to provide value in our work.
City Human Resources Director
I thought the ING seminar, “Preventing and Responding to Anti-Muslim Bigotry,” was an extremely valuable training for law enforcement, especially in today’s day and age with all the misunderstandings and misperceptions of the Muslim community…I feel this training will help my staff and I in developing better relationships and in responding to the needs of our community. I highly recommend this training to others.
Police Captain
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