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Boston mosque looks to build youth program<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/strong><\/span> New England’s largest mosque is trying to serve a burgeoning contingent of young members. But recruiting the right person to work with them proved a challenge, given the dearth of professionally trained Muslim youth educators who are conversant in American culture.<\/span> “It’s an opportunity for us to learn more about youth work he’s done and begin to build a fabulous youth program here,” said Yusufi Vali, the Boston mosque’s executive director.<\/span><\/p>\n References :alukah<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Boston mosque looks to build youth program While serving as youth director for a Knoxville mosque, AbdelRahman Murphy took a group of teens to a University of Tennessee football game.… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2115,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-muslims-news"],"yoast_head":"\n
While serving as youth director for a Knoxville mosque, AbdelRahman Murphy took a group of teens to a University of Tennessee football game. At sunset, Murphy tapped them on the shoulder: Time to pray. As his bashful charges watched, he asked a security guard whether the group could have a little space inside the stadium.<\/span>
“On one condition,” the guard replied, as Murphy tells the story. “Just make sure you pray for the Volunteers.”<\/span>
The teens got it, Murphy said in an interview this month: Don’t be shy about practicing your faith. And know that you can build bridges in surprising places.<\/span>
The Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center in Roxbury has recruited Murphy, a 27-year-old mental health counselor and aspiring cleric based in Dallas, to work with teens and college students in Boston for three days each month over the next year.<\/span><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/localhost\/rs\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/03\/boston_map.jpg\")
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Murphy, who helped develop a youth curriculum in Dallas and Knoxville called Roots, made such an impression among Boston teens and young adults on a previous visit that mosque leaders decided to bring him back regularly.<\/span><\/p>\n