Town Hall addresses future of U.S.-Muslim relations

Thursday, November 2, 2006

On Nov. 2, 2006, Oklahoma State University will commemorate five years since the Sept. 11 attacks with a town hall meeting on the future of U.S.-Muslim World Relations.

Hope not Hate is coming to Stillwater as part of Arts and Sciences Week. The OSU Hope not Hate town hall will occur at 7 p.m. at the Wes Watkins Center International Exhibit Hall.

The event will feature Dr. Vincent Cornell, Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Middle East and Islamic Studies; Sarwat Husain, executive director of C.A.I.R. (Council on American-Islamic Relations); Dr. Raymond Habiby, Professor Emeritus OSU Political Science Department; and Dr. Seth Ward, research associate of the Institute for the Study of Israel in the Middle East.

Co-sponsoring organizations include the Arts and Sciences Student Council, Student Government Association, OSU Office of Student Affairs, Muslim Student Association, and the Political Science Department. The event is free and open to all. Students across America have joined together with many 9/11 family members to carry out this task with the hope of inspiring a new generation of U.S.-Muslim relations based on understanding and mutual respect.

Hope Not Hate is an annual fall series of town hall meetings and international videoconference dialogues on the future of U.S.-Muslim World relations hosted by Americans for Informed Democracy. 

A coalition of nonprofit organizations, including Americans for Informed Democracy, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, and the United Nations Foundation, supports the town hall series as part of a broader initiative called The People Speak.