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MET's Annual Book Fair
&
MCCP Fundraiser with Imam Siraj Wahhaj

Saturday, March 8th 2014
4:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Portland State University's Hoffman Hall 
1833 SW 11th Avenue, Portland, OR 97201

 

 Visit our Unique Book Fair and Sample Exquisite, Hard-to-find Items that include: Books, DVDs, CDs, Gifts, Posters, Quran Pen Readers, Full Quran CD Sets and Juz' Booklets, Children's Toys, Board Games, Arabic Language Puzzles & Resources, Ornaments, Islamic Wall Clocks, and more... 

  

The Muslim Educational Trust would like to invite you to its Annual Book Fair which will be held on Saturday, March 8th, 2014 from 4:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. at Portland State University's Hoffman Hall. MET will also host the Muslim Community Center of Portland's Fundraising Dinner to rebuild the masjid that was lost in a fire last fall. The MCCP facility leased for over two decades located at 3801 NE MLK was assessed as a complete loss from the fire in October 2013. MCCP is Portland's 1st Muslim Community and is now without a home.

 

Our keynote speaker will be Imam Siraj Wahhaj, Imam of Al-Taqwa mosque in Brooklyn, New York. Imam Wahhaj was born as Jeffrey Kearse and raised in Brooklyn, New York. In 1969 he ended his schooling and joined the Nation of Islam. When Elijah Muhammed died in 1975, "His teachings began to unravel in Imam Wahhaj's mind, and he became a Sunni Muslim with the encouragement of Muhammad's son Warith Deen Mohammed. Kearse changed his name to Siraj Wahhaj, which means "bright light" in Arabic. He was chosen to study Islam at the Umm al-Qura University of Mecca for a period of four months in 1978. In 1991 Wahhaj offered an invocation (opening prayer) to the United States House of Representatives.He was the first Muslim to do so. In 1981 Wahhaj started his own mosque, Masijd Al-Taqwa, in a friend's apartment in Brooklyn. Later they bought an abandoned clothing store which is where Masjid At-Taqwa still resides today. He has been vice president of the Islamic Society of North America since 1997 and has served on the Majlis al Shura, a consultative council of Islamic scholars, since 1987. He is a member of the Board of Advisors for the American Muslim Council and has also served on the national board of the Council on American-Islamic Relations.
 Join us for an evening filled with fun activities
  • Unique Book Fair
  • Award Distributions for MET's Annual Science Fair, Speech Tournament, and Arabic & Islamic Studies Fair
  • Keynote Speech by Imam Siraj Wahhaj
  • Dinner will be served
  • Free Children's Activities