{"id":8648,"date":"2025-10-17T17:02:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T17:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/8648\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T17:02:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T17:02:07","slug":"dallas-morning-news-to-host-nov-7-listening-session-for-muslim-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/8648\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas Morning News to host Nov. 7 listening session for Muslim community"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Dallas Morning News is partnering with the Islamic Association of Collin County to host a Nov. 7 listening session at the Plano mosque for Dallas-Fort Worth\u2019s Muslim community. <\/p>\n

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Journalists from The News will gather at the mosque to talk with Muslim community members who want to share their feedback, insights, concerns and story ideas. <\/p>\n

Those who are interested in attending the listening session can RSVP here<\/a>. Advance registration is not required to attend. <\/p>\n

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D-FW is home to a growing Muslim community, and Muslims make up about 1% of the region\u2019s population. Some Muslim people and houses of worship have been the subject<\/a> of controversy<\/a> in recent years or have faced acts<\/a> of violence<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Akram Syed, president of the Islamic Association of Collin County, said the media has an important role to play in fostering intercommunity understanding among Muslim people and their neighbors. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe want to be understood; we want to be represented,\u201d he said. \u201cWe are hoping that this listening session will help us do that.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said he hopes to remind others in D-FW of \u201chow normal we are as human beings.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cThe commonality \u2014 this is what we want everyone to understand,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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Friday, Nov. 7 from 6-8 p.m. at Islamic Association of Collin County, 6401 Independence Parkway, Plano.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Dallas Morning News is partnering with the Islamic Association of Collin County to host a Nov. 7…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8649,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[960,102,1881,1526,160,162,161],"class_list":{"0":"post-8648","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-plano","8":"tag-collin-county","9":"tag-dallas","10":"tag-faith","11":"tag-media","12":"tag-plano","13":"tag-plano-headlines","14":"tag-plano-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8648\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}