Press Releases View PDF Activists from the Poor People’s Water Board coalition went today to the State Capitol, Lansing, to lobby for a new set of bills centered around water rights. State Senator Stephanie Chang, a key legislative leader for water justice, co-sponsored many of the bills. State Senator Paul Wonjo, from Warren, also helped…
Conferences Qur’an Conferences 14th Annual Qur’an Conference: Ramadan The Month of al-Qur’an 13th Annual Qur’an Conference : Truth, Guidance and Light 6th Annual Qur’an Conference: The Qur’an – An Argument Either For Or Against You! Sirah Conferences 14th Annual Sirah Conference: Loving the Prophet 15th Annual Sirah Conference: The Hijrah and the Return to Mecca…
IONA in the News The students are studying social justice at Marygrove.Steve Mustapha Elturk is getting his Master of Arts in Social Justice at Marygrove College, a small Catholic liberal arts school located in Detroit. During a class break, he walks down a hallway to a sparse room with a chalk board on the wall.“This…
Press Releases View PDF On a sad and gloomy day, people from across the United States converged at the National Mall in Washington DC to share the conditions and misery citizens of the richest country in the world suffer from. The Poor People’s Campaign’s (PPC) peaceful march in DC is the culmination of a 40-day…
IONA in the News DETROIT — Marygrove College in Detroit began a new chapter Jan. 4 with the official commemoration of the school’s transition to a graduate-studies-only institution.Marygrove announced in August that, due to declining enrollment, it would be cutting its undergraduate courses and would be focusing on its graduate programs.“The college is still open;…
Conferences Qur’an Conferences 14th Annual Qur’an Conference: Ramadan The Month of al-Qur’an 13th Annual Qur’an Conference : Truth, Guidance and Light 6th Annual Qur’an Conference: The Qur’an – An Argument Either For Or Against You! Sirah Conferences 14th Annual Sirah Conference: Loving the Prophet 15th Annual Sirah Conference: The Hijrah and the Return to Mecca…
Conferences Qur’an Conferences 14th Annual Qur’an Conference: Ramadan The Month of al-Qur’an 13th Annual Qur’an Conference : Truth, Guidance and Light 6th Annual Qur’an Conference: The Qur’an – An Argument Either For Or Against You! Sirah Conferences 14th Annual Sirah Conference: Loving the Prophet 15th Annual Sirah Conference: The Hijrah and the Return to Mecca…
Press Releases View PDF The Islamic Organization of North America (IONA) co-hosted an event with Emgage titled Stand in Unity against Hate, Xenophobia and Islamophobia at the IONA banquet facility the evening of November 8. The purpose of the event is to show support and unity for marginalized communities.The meeting was organized in response to…
Press Releases View PDF Imam Mustapha Elturk and William Antoun, the IONA Center Outreach Director, attended a conference on “Interfaith Religious Freedom,” held on November 7 at the University of Detroit Law School in Detroit, Michigan.The new interfaith coalition was formed to defend the religious freedom enshrined in the constitution of the United States. The…
IONA in the News As the holy month of Ramadan begins for him and other Metro Detroit Muslims, Babar Qadri has noted among followers the same devotion but different begins. Amid extremist violence abroad and nationwide spikes in anti-Islam sentiment, some have urged the Warren resident to exercise caution while pursuing the prayers and gatherings…