The following interview was conducted at 10:30 AM on November 3, 2013 with Imtiaz Mastan, at John F. Kennedy High School in Fremont, CA:
- When was your site founded?
- Who was/were the founder(s)?
- Any people of importance?
Mufti Mudassir Owais – teacher and resident scholar
Shaykh Tameem Ahmadi – locally based shaykh and scholar
- How did the mosque derive its name?
- What demographic do they serve? (a mix of different backgrounds, primarily ethnic such as Arab/Pakistani/Fijian, African-American, convert, youth?)
- What size is the community, how active is it? What is unique about the community? (Is it immigrant, new, established, refugee, alternative?)
- Is your site affiliated or partners with any other mosques?
- Are there any articles or press from outside sources regarding yourmosque, hyperlink out to those articles as you speak about them. You can ask your mosque directly, but you should also search online as the mosque may not be aware. Maybe an event was covered in the news, a grand opening with the mayor, maybe and incident of hate etc.
- What kind of structure is your mosque (a storefront, converted house or building, corporate space, strip mall, former church, built from the ground up)? Is their any information they can offer about the location and prior occupants? Is their historical information you can research on the address? What is the area like (residential, commercial. etc?)
- Find out about any projects your mosque is involved in (feeding the homeless, literacy, women's shelter, voting poll site etc)
- What events do they have or have participated in?
- What services do they offer? (is their an onsite Islamic school, do they offer health, legal, marriage,death, services, counseling, Boy Scouts, youth programs etc?)
- Have their been any significant milestones (purchase of a bigger building, zoning permit anything else?)
- Have they published any materials? Find out title, obtain some.
http://www.theilmacademy.com/images/ilmavoice/ilmavoicevol1.pdf
We could put the ICF by-laws - http://www.icfbayarea.com/documents/ICF-ByLaws.pdf
None
- Have they as a mosque/community experience discrimination? Hate crimes?
- What kind of community engagement do they have? (Interfaith, community outreach, open house?)