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funds and support for admission To Know Each Other ways in which the notion of freedom
to top universities.The association that they had discovered after their
tries to help young Muslims gain Al-Kashmiri concluded that they migration can be used and abused.
admittance to advanced degrees have a project by the name of ‘To However he told us that Islam
so that may serve their religion and Know Each Other’. It is one of has put forward many solutions,
community. the association's most important and if these are applied, Muslim
The association emphasises projects, and one that aims citizens will not encounter many
peaceful coexistence and respect to achieve multiple goals on a serious problems that they cannot
for the laws of the land in which one grassroots level. It is based on visits overcome.
resides, or of which one is a citizen, and meetings of two types: those Al-Ameen added that the
and the Prophet's edict dictates with the general public and those foundation tries as far as possible
that it is religiously impermissible with specialists and entrepreneurs. to overcome these problems and
to break the law of the land. The project seeks to encourage solve them in the safest possible
Moreover, this is an issue of good people to follow their religious ways, through the magnanimity of
citizenship and integration, with the leadership and to exchange their Islam, through its divine teachings,
condition that one maintains his ideas, vision, and experience with and through the plan as designated
or her religious identity and noble knowledgeable and experienced by Ahl al-Bayt. ‘As every Muslim
traditions. individuals. who lives in a Western country
knows,’ he continued, ‘there are
Obstacles facing Islamic many difficulties, like maintaining
society Eastern traditions, especially for
second-generation immigrants who
Our second stop was with Sayyed have never grown up in an Eastern
Mehdi al-Ameen, the representative society. So we remain mindful of
of the Islamic Shia Council in the the importance of these parts of
United States, who told us about our society, because they suffer
the main difficulties that face from these problems of integration,
the Muslim citizen, saying that and are often caught between
differences in culture, customs, and Western traditions and those of their
traditions have resulted in a number parents.’
of challenges. He spoke of how Al-Ameen explained the various
Sayyed Mehdi al-Ameen some take offence at some of the departments included in IMAM. The

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