How close is Afghanistan to San Francisco?

Afghan American Muslim Outreach Conference, 2/17/08

ING speaker, Ameena Jandali addressed an audience of around eight hundred Afghani Americans at a first of its kind gathering in Fremont on Sunday, February 17. The Afghan community in the Bay Area is one of the largest outside of Afghanistan, numbering around 60,000. The conference was attended by families and included all ages , including many elderly Afghans. The half day conference about family included a diverse array of speakers, including Imam Sadullah Khan from the Islamic Center of Irvine and Imam Zaid Shakir from Zaytuna Institute addressing topics relating to youth, parent-child relations, and other issues of importance to the community. Ameena spoke about the challenge for women of balancing faith, family, and community, in which she emphasized the need for giving each realm of one’s life its proper due, without ignoring one aspect for the other. She encouraged attendees to contribute in any way they can to improving this world, no matter how small the effort.

[ING is a South Bay area organization, one of several with highly talented Muslim young women, helping the rest of us to understand and appreciate Islam, and to learn how to be part of the world's and SF Bay area's nature as a multi-faith community. You can learn more about ING by going to: www.ing.org
Two other similar, outstanding groups are: CAIR.org and WAH.org --Bob F.