There's a young man who works at a convenience store near me.

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21. It's getting scary out there. I read this hopeful article today in my local paper:

I was totally unaware that there was a Muslim community around here. I'm thinking I should go, apparently it's a weekly gathering.


Muslims reaching out in local gatherings
http://poststar.com/news/local/muslims-reaching-out-in-local-gatherings/article_78b88502-908c-5a80-98c2-d56c423d121d.html


GLENS FALLS — It only took a few minutes of sharing coffee, sweets like dense chocolate brownies or tiny vanilla cakes, and stories about everyday things like where their children go to school, workouts and husbands who cook dinner or clean the bathroom, for the common discomfort among strangers to disappear.

“When we meet face to face, we find there are more similarities,” said Noah Ahmad Quick of Glens Falls, the director of public affairs for the Albany Chapter of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community. “When the conversation is not hidden behind the anonymity of social media, it is less confrontational.”

And finding a common thread is exactly what Quick and other area Muslims were hoping for when they planned their first Glens Falls “Coffee, Cake and True Islam” open dialogue event at Spot Coffee on Glen Street on Tuesday night.

“Some people have never even met a Muslim,” Quick said. “We are saying, ‘I’m a Muslim, ask me a question.’”