We’re thinking about constructing religious infrastructure and not thinking about the community outside of our, of our box
We’ve created, uh, a lot of programming where we, um, educate the media about Islamophobia. We educate community AR title loans leaders, even, uh, police officers on when they attend on call to the mosque on how to deal with, uh, Muslim individuals. And if you recall, we had, uh, the New Zealand shootings that happened a couple years ago, and mind you, us, our family being from Fiji –New Zealand and Fiji are neighbors — so we actually knew one or two people that perished in that mosque during those shootings from, uh, being priests in the local cities in Fiji.
And yeah, we’re, we’re bad about it
This is the, this is something that I learned, uh, when dealing in, during my IVLP Program, it’s okay to be mad. It’s okay to be sad, because having those feelings inside is what’s gonna break you, but we need to have interaction. We need to communicate to understand each other’s feelings.Continue reading