Ayesha Eemaan-Sayles, a Minnetonka retiree who has worked at the ICM for five years as a bookkeeper and administrative assistant, said, “When there’s a disaster in the world somewhere, we (ICM) are right there with fundraisers and donations to give our help. That’s what we’re in the world for because we should be concerned with all humanity. That’s the reason why I became Muslim.” Sayles, a native Minnesotan whose family migrated to the state from the south after the civil war, reverted to Islam in 1992 and remembers her initial search for community. “I had finally found an Islamic center with an open door,” she says, speaking of the ICM.
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