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1. IMPACTboston
www.impactboston.org/pages/eve - [Cached]Published on: 3/7/2004 Last Visited: 1/5/2006
IMPACTboston members were in attendance for an event featuring Boston Police Commissioner Paul Evans; John Robertson, Executive Director, Boston Chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union; Aamir Rehman, Director of Outreach, Islamic Society of Boston; and Michael Hogan, President, MassDevelopment. -
2. Portsmouth Herald Mass News: Anti-Arab incidents hikes number of hate crimes in Mass.
www.yorkweekly.com/news/092520 - [Cached]Published on: 9/26/2002 Last Visited: 9/26/2002
"Unfortunately, the victimization did not end on Sept. 11 (with the murder of civilians," said Aamir Rehman of the Islamic Society of Boston. "There are some who sought to divide our country ... and scapegoat innocent people."
Among the total number of hate crimes in 2001, 133 were motivated by religious bias, up 43 percent over 2000. There was a tenfold increase in anti-Islamic incidents.
In the two weeks after Sept. 11, the Arab American Institute counted more than 300 acts of vandalism or violence including three killings aimed at Arabs, Muslims, Hindus and Sikhs in 23 states. -
3. Boston Globe Online / Metro | Region / Muslim teens spread word on Islam
search.boston.com/dailyglobe2/ - [Cached]Published on: 8/31/2002 Last Visited: 8/31/2002
Aamir Rehman, 24, left his consultant job to take a position as director of outreach for the Islamic Society of Boston in Cambridge because he wanted to be part of a movement that is promoting awareness of Islam.
"I think they are taking leadership in this effort to present Islam as an American way of life," Rehman said. "We feel more invested in America than immigrants might. The idea is to feel we belong here, the idea we need to make our lives here."
For the most part, younger Muslims are taking more activist roles than their parents. Older generations of Muslim immigrants faced language barriers and were apprehensive about asserting their religious identity outside their community.
