High-Fructose Mosque

“O humankind! Eat of that which is lawful and good on the earth…”

– Qur’an, Translation of 2:128

While driving to Worcester, Massachusetts this past weekend, I spontaneously decided to stop at the “Islamic Society of Central Jersey”:http://iscj.org to pray. It had been years since the the last time I took the time to explore ISCJ.

Back then, the Sunday school curriculum consisted of memorization as well as reading through various Islamic stories. Unfortunately, none of those ideas were applicable to my [then] current reality as a pubescent Muslim kid growing up in America. The lessons certainly didn’t contain anything about eating right, for instance. The closest they came to engaging my life outside the mosque was the oft-repeated slogan, “Islam isn’t a religion; it is a way of life.”
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