Nikhat Dharani: Abrahamic Program for Young Adults creates safe environment for interfaith dialogue, questions

APYA creates safe environment for interfaith dialogue, questions | The Chautauquan Daily-Excerpt: Dharani, an Ismaili Muslim and junior at Harvard University, was born in India but moved to the United States at a young age. When she was a child, Dharani’s family lived far from an Ismaili mosque. She said this distance from a house of worship helped her understand that “going to mosque” did not have to mean physically going there. As she grew older, this molded her understanding of God.

Mary Desmond | Staff Writer

Last summer, during an open community dialogue, a man approached Ali Karjoo-Ravary and asked: “Why is Islam a religion of such hatred and evil?”

Though Karjoo-Ravary, the former Muslim coordinator for the Abrahamic Program for Young Adults, remembers the incident clearly, he carries with him a different moment from his summer at Chautauqua. The moment he holds onto occurred just five days later, when the same man approached again but with a different message.

“He had done a complete one-eighty and said he wished he had several months to study with us,” Karjoo-Ravary said.

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  1. there is so much of commonality with all the 3 Abraham faith which is obvious as God will never direct his children differently it is the man who has created the hatred and differences that have plagued the world for centuries and centuries so much of this has been said all thru the time but the man still continues his follies

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