{"id":4077,"date":"2017-04-15T07:45:06","date_gmt":"2017-04-15T07:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/world\/4077-muslim-student-association-organizes-weeklong-cultural-event-at-rutgers\/"},"modified":"2017-04-15T07:45:06","modified_gmt":"2017-04-15T07:45:06","slug":"muslim-student-association-organizes-weeklong-cultural-event-at-rutgers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/world\/4077-muslim-student-association-organizes-weeklong-cultural-event-at-rutgers\/","title":{"rendered":"Muslim Student Association organizes weeklong cultural event at Rutgers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every spring at Rutgers University in New Jersey, the Muslim Student Association (MSA) hosts Islam Awareness week to engage with the larger Rutgers community and educate people about the Islamic religion and culture.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h4>Every spring at Rutgers University in New Jersey, the Muslim Student Association (MSA) hosts Islam Awareness week to engage with the larger Rutgers community and educate people about the Islamic religion and culture.\u00a0<\/h4>\n<h4>The event is held this week in a large tent outside of Brower Commons on the College Avenue campus and will continue until Friday.Arts and Sciences seniors HadearSeliman and Reshma Vohra, and School of Arts and Sciences junior Habibah Arshad.<\/h4>\n<h4>\u201cThere are so many misconceptions, especially nowadays, in the media or anywhere else, about Islam and what it&#8217;s portrayed as,\u201d Seliman said. \u201cThis tent is a forum to have discussions with other people about this religion \u2014 what we follow, who we follow, what we do in terms of worship. 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