E.C. Fish, a former ICON contributor and founding Little Village columnist, wrote this opinion piece for the 10th issue of Little Village, published December 2001 — less than three months after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. The news from Afghanistan has been good. The Taliban — who will do as an enemy since […]
Muslims in Iowa
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Peak Iowa: 100 years ago, central Iowans embraced gender-nonconforming immigrant and fortune teller Heroda Kaiji
Heroda Kaiji, when he sensed that he was dying, asked his friends to take him from his rooming house apartment in Stuart to a shady hill beside the South Raccoon River near Dexter. He wanted to spend his final moments looking out across Dexfield Park, the amusement park where he had performed as a palmist […]
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Founders of Elkader, Iowa named their town after an Algerian freedom fighter, forging a 175-year tie to the Muslim nation
By all accounts, it’s the only U.S. city named after a Muslim hero. And it’s right here in Iowa. More than 100 years before the Geneva Convention codified in international law the rights of prisoners of war and civilians to humane treatment, 19th century Algerian freedom fighter Abd al-Qadir ibn Muhyi al-Din, the leader of […]
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Wearing your identity: Ala Mohamed and Jocelyn Pai
University of Iowa students and Walk it Out Multicultural Fashion Show leaders Ala Mohamed and Jocelyn Pai combine East Asian style with their own fashion sensibilities to present a confident but culturally-rich look.
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Photos: Large turnout to support Muslims at the Mother Mosque of America
A large crowd gathered on Sunday, March 26 at the Mother Mosque of America to show support for Muslims in Iowa and throughout the United States. The Mother Mosque was the first Mosque built in North America and now acts as cultural center, with the mission, according to their website, to “preserve, present and share the history of Islam in America.”
