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  • Events push mosque leader into spotlight, (Portland, Or. again)

    05/10/2004 11:35:33 AM PDT · by Grampa Dave · 35 replies · 180+ views
    Oregon Live ^ | 10 May 2003 | Jill Smith
    Events push mosque leader into spotlight Whether bumped from a prayer breakfast or fielding concerns about a detention, Shahriar Ahmed broadens views of Islam Monday, May 10, 2004 JILL SMITH BEAVERTON -- The question took Shahriar Ahmed by surprise. The president of Bilal Mosque in Beaverton was looking for an elevator at Providence St. Vincent Medical Center when a security guard approached him: "Aren't you the guy who was disinvited from the prayer breakfast?" A week earlier, organizers of the Mayors' Prayer Breakfast of Washington County had pulled Ahmed from the program because he is Muslim. Most mayors bowed out...