Saturday, June 12, 2010

Frederick County Muslim Council hopes to assimilate community members

This doctor is trying to bring Muslims in his community into the mainstream, so they and the rest of the residents are working together and have good relationships. - - Donna Poisl

By Nicholas C. Stern, News-Post Staff

After the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, Syed Haque, like many Muslims across the region and the country, began to fear for the safety and the future of his family, friends and community members.

Haque is a local internal medicine physician born, raised and educated in Pakistan. He has lived in Frederick for about 10 years.

Interested in democratic politics since his university days, Haque had already been mulling ways to encourage the greater assimilation of local Muslims in the community and in local politics when terrorists crashed commercial airliners into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
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