Minnesota Public Radio — They are students, activists, welders and artists. They’ve grown up in Egypt and Yemen and north Minneapolis. They are daughters and brothers and fathers and mothers.
Jaylani Hussein, 33, is the first Somali president of the Minnesota chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, a post he holds today.
Hussein, of Roseville, was born in Somalia and arrived in Minnesota by way of Egypt in 1993. He is a community advocate and graduate of St. Cloud State University.
Hafsa Abdi, 18, is a senior at St. Cloud Technical High School. Abdi will graduate in May 2016 and plans to attend St. Cloud State University in the fall to study nursing.
Read more:http://www.mprnews.org/story/2016/02/02/being-muslim-in-minnesota
