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The Student Voice of Fordham Lincoln Center

The Observer

The Student Voice of Fordham Lincoln Center

The Observer

AREEG ABDELHAMID, Opinions Editor Emerita

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Muslim communities would be far better off if more attention was paid to mental health issues. (PHOTO COURTESY OF MARYAM SHOUBIR)

Muslim Communities Must Address Mental Health

May 8, 2016
In this sensitive time, our masjids are told to focus on finding “radicalized” youth. But it is even more important to acknowledge that our communities need to create safe spaces, without the FBI and without cultural baggage.
New Yorker prays in Central Park. (Mariam Moustafa/ The Observer)

Keeping Faith after Chapel Hill Shooting

March 29, 2015
All we want is to feel equal, to be accepted and to be heard. But when the media ignores several Muslims who have been murdered in the same month and calls the incidents “random” then how can we feel like we actually belong?
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