[Peace] WD Muhammad, 7pm, This Tuesday (fwd)

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Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 01:08:36 -0600
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                      COMING TO THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

				IMAM W.D. MOHAMMED
			      Muslim American Leader

"The Role of Islam in the African American Community, Past
                                  & Future"

			      MARCH 30, 2004 @ 7:00PM
				  112 Gregory Hall


				   FREE ADMISSION
			        Doors open at 6:00PM

		     Sponsored by Muslim Students Association

				     Co-Sponsors:
	South Asian and the Middle Eastern Studies Program
		African American Cultural Program
				Global CrossRoads
	                Nation of Islam Students Association
			      Justice for Palestine
			     Students for Palestine
			World Human Rights Organization
				Penguin Revolution
		      	Muslim Law Students Association
                            Council of Muslim Graduates
                                  Alpha Phi Alpha
                       Intercultural Friendship Foundation

Some info on Imam W.D. Mohameed:

Given the name at birth Wallace D. Mohammed, Imam W. Deen
Mohammed was born October 30, 1933 to the builder and leader
of the Nation of Islam, the late Elijah (Poole) Muhammad and
the late Clara (Evans) Muhammad.  He is the leader of the
largest identifiable constituency of Muslim Americans and is
recognized world wide as a Muslim scholar.  A few of his
accomplishments are listed below.

>From the day after his father's passing in 1975, Imam
Mohammed succeeded his father as the leader of the Nation of
Islam with unanimous support of its followers and began its
transformation to "Islam proper" as practiced by over 1
billion Muslims worldwide.  In 1976, he encouraged Muslim
Americans to register to vote in the American political
process, put emphasis on Legacy of African American Freedom
Fighters and U.S. Citizenship as a major resources, opened
Nation of Islam membership to all races of Muslims,
celebrated Malcolm X (Shabazz) by naming the largest
mosque in New York City in his honor.

Imam Mohammed was part of a delegation that traveled to
Saudi Arabia in a consultative role to discuss the concerns
of Muslims over the Gulf War in 1990.  In 1992 he delivered
the Invocation opening the U.S. Senate in Washington, D.C.,
the first ever given by a Muslim.  One year later, he
participated in the Inaugural Interfaith Prayer Service for
President Clinton.  In 1995 Imam Mohammed delivered the
keynote address at the Muslim-Jewish convocation, the first
serious public dialogue between top leaders of Islam and
Reformed Judaism, in Glencoe, Ill.  In May of the same year,
Forbes Magazine officials hosted an address given by Imam
Mohammed in Naples, Fla., on the topic "How Do We Save Our
Youth?"

In 2001 Imam Mohammed attended the Contributions of
Religions in Peace Conference in Assisi, Italy, at the
invitation of Pope John Paul II, for religious leaders to
gather to pray for world peace.  Other leaders that
have met with Imam Mohammed include the Dalai Lama, King
Fahad of Saudi Arabia, President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt,
King Hassan II of Morocco, King
Hussein of Jordan, President Yassar Arafat of Palestine,
Bishop Samuel Ruiz Garcia, Mufti Abdullah Mukhtar, Rabbi
Joseph H. Ehrenkranz, and Minister Louis Farrakhan.

He was ceremoniously inducted into the Martin Luther King
Jr. International Board of Preachers at Morehouse College,
in Atlanta, Ga., where his portrait hangs in the
International Chapel of Non-Violent Religious Leaders at
Morehouse in 2002.  In 2003 the prestigious Sojourner-
Douglas College, in Baltimore, Md., bestowed upon Imam
Mohammed an Honorary Doctorate in Human Letters.

Jazak'Allah khair

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