By Laura Blasey and Matthew Chayes
Source: http://www.newsday.com/long-island/national-meetamuslim-day-comes-to-long-island-new-york-city-1.13245338
Despite the cold, Saturday, March 11, 2017, Muslims from Long Island got out on a street in Amityville to introduce themselves to the community. Said one, 62 percent of Americans have never met a Muslim and many fear what they don’t know. This group was with the Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Association. There were similar encounters across the nation. (Credit: Newsday / Steven Pfost)
Tourist Grayson Davidson had never met a Muslim before, and the 18-year-old nursing student was wondering about Islam’s stance on jihad and terrorism.
She got answers about the religion of 1.6 billion from two of its adherents on Saturday afternoon, when she and her mother walked past the New York City chapter of National #MeetaMuslim Day, a nationwide outreach effort meant to encourage people to ask anything about Islam…. read more at source.