Umar Nayyar was born in Pakistan and grew up in New Jersey. He studied for 7 years at Jamaica Ahmadiyya School of Theology in Canada and reviewed his Shahid degree in 2018. He was posted to the U.S. in Silverspring, MD later that year and has served as a missionary since then.
LVSA is collaborating with Cornell’s Pakistani Student Association in holding a discussion on the persecution of religious minorities in Pakistan. Click on this thread to see our speakers!
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Zunair Waseem is an 18 year old full time student. He’s a Shia Muslim who enjoys talking about his religion and has a great passion and drive for learning about Islam in general. He believes in standing up against oppression no matter who is oppressed or who the oppressor is.
Brown Activists was founded by Hersh Pareek, a sophomore at UW-Madison majoring in global health & health promotion/health equality with a minor in environmental studies. This organisation aims to spread awareness about current issues within the South Asian community and globally
Join our event next Friday, September 25th at 5PM EST on Anti-Blackness within the South Asian community! We will be collaborating with the Pakistani Students Associations from the University of Virginia and the Virginia Commonwealth University.
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Our panelist’s include individuals from South Asians for Black Lives and Brown Activists! South Asians for Black Lives is a program of Malikah, a non-profit, building safety and power for all women, aimed at calling the south asian community to dismantle anti-blackness.