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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More UpdatesING Parent-Child Workshops
In consideration of an impending war with Iraq, ING began its campaign to prevent and respond to hate incidents by providing workshops to local masajid and Islamic schools. The first workshop was held at the SBIA in San Jose. The program description is as follows: Read MoreING Statement Regarding Danish Cartoons
(2/3/06) In late September last year, a Danish newspaper, Morgenavisen Jyllands-Posten published 12 different cartoonists’ idea of what the Prophet Muhammed might have looked like as part of an ongoing public debate on the topic of freedom of expression in Denmark. The cartoons included demeaning depictions of the Prophet Muhammad, including one with a bomb in his turban and another with him leaving paradise saying it had run out of virgins. In response to these and other unpublished drawings that began circulating in the Middle East, and after months of mild complaining, Muslims across the world began to protest and boycott Danish products, while some governments, such as Libya and Saudi Arabia withdrew their ambassadors from Denmark. While the editors of the Danish paper recently apologized for any upset they may have caused, the furor threatens to escalate with the new publication of the Danish caricatures and other religiously denigrating cartoons by other European dailies, including French and British papers. Read MoreCommemorating Dr. Martin Luther King Day
(1/16/06) Today commemorates the anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King’s birthday. We often overlook the importance of this commemoration, or don’t feel connected to it, yet Muslim Americans today reap the benefits of the struggle that he and others in the civil rights movement strived and sacrificed for. All people of color – and all Americans owe these pioneers a debt of gratitude for reasserting the values that this nation was founded on, values such as “liberty, freedom and justice for all” that have not always been applied to all people. 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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