Our Programs are designed to improve the Salt Lake area quality of life by contributing to the social and cultural activities for and by Muslims in the area.
GOALS
Providing social services – employment, vocational education, refugee assistance, housing, health, legal aid – and acculturation, and cultural programs to primarily populations originating in Muslim countries from Bosnia to Sudan, Morocco to Indonesia.
Fostering mutual understanding and goodwill between Muslim and non-Muslim communities in the greater Salt Lake area.
Also, Ghulam Hasnain is available for presentations through the Utah Humanities Council Public Square program:
Shia and Sunni–Two Faces of Islam
There are over 50 Muslim countries in the world, an estimated 6 million Muslims in the United States, and 15,000 in Utah. And yet, knowledge in the United States about Muslims and understanding of the Sunni and Shia denominations of Islam are limited. Discussing sectarian differences sometimes makes tempers flare, but pretending that the differences between Sunnis and Shias are minor, besides being untrue, does not contribute to a better understanding of either sect or assist them in coming to terms with each other for mutual understanding and peaceful coexistence, if not cooperation. This presentation examines the position of each denomination in an attempt to offer a fuller understanding of the complex faith known as Islam.
Shia and Sunni–Two Faces of Islam