{"id":2699,"date":"2016-05-01T07:33:22","date_gmt":"2016-05-01T07:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/world\/2699-rockford-women-gather-for-11th-annual-women-in-islam-event\/"},"modified":"2016-05-01T07:33:22","modified_gmt":"2016-05-01T07:33:22","slug":"rockford-women-gather-for-11th-annual-women-in-islam-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/world\/2699-rockford-women-gather-for-11th-annual-women-in-islam-event\/","title":{"rendered":"Rockford women gather for 11th annual &#8216;women in Islam&#8217; event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"direction: ltr;\">Women of different faiths in Rockford city, Illinois, have come together during weekend for the 11th annual women in Islam event that is meant to discuss misconceptions about being Muslim.<\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\">\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\">Women of different faiths in Rockford city, Illinois, have come together during weekend for the 11th annual women in Islam event that is meant to discuss misconceptions about being Muslim.<\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\">\u201cThis event primarily is to invite members of the community in, who may have driven by the mosque, may have heard a little bit about Islam, and who are curious,\u201d Muslim Association of Greater Rockford Member Lamis Diab told WREX.com.<\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\">Diab, a Rockford resident, said the event gathered many women driven by curiosity to hear about Islam and how the faith deals with women.<\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\">This event triggered important conversation about topics like attacks wrongly committed in the name of Islam.<\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\">Local Muslim women hope this event brings people together respecting each other\u2019s differences and sharing similarities.<\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Women of different faiths in Rockford city, Illinois, have come together during weekend for the 11th annual women in Islam event that is meant to discuss misconceptions about being Muslim. \u00a0 \u00a0 Women of different faiths in Rockford city, Illinois, have come together during weekend for the 11th annual women in Islam event that is &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":12715,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_108372464460192_245495985553329":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[100,205,227],"class_list":["post-2699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-islam","tag-muslim","tag-women"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Rockford women gather for 11th annual &#039;women in Islam&#039; 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