By \u00a0Dave Cortese<\/p>\n
Santa Clara County Supervisor<\/p>\n
As a County, we frequently highlight and commemorate the many contributions made by our diverse residents. Today was no exception as my Board colleagues and I adopted a proclamation declaring August as Muslim Appreciation and Awareness Month.<\/span><\/p>\n The proclamation is a gesture of our continued support and solidarity with the Muslim community as anti-Muslim rhetoric and attitudes have spiked during this year\u2019s presidential election.<\/span><\/p>\n I want to thank our County\u2019s Office of Immigrant Relations for helping my office put forth the proclamation and for reaching out to our diverse Muslim community to attend today\u2019s declaration.<\/span><\/p>\n Special thanks to:<\/span><\/p>\n Athar Siddique and Adnan Rashid from the South Bay Islamic Association<\/span><\/p>\n Sabuhi Siddiquee from the Muslim Community of Silicon Valley Chapter<\/span><\/p>\n Rania El-Sioufi from the Granada Islamic School<\/span><\/p>\n Moina Shaiq<\/span><\/p>\n Farha Andrabi navaid from the Mountain View Palo Alto Musalla<\/span><\/p>\n Sameena Usman and Zahra Billoo from Council on American-Islamic Relations<\/span><\/p>\n Samina Sundas from American Muslim Voice<\/span><\/p>\n Mahmut Altun from the Pacifica Institute<\/span><\/p>\n Osmun Ergene from the Hidaya Foundation<\/span><\/p>\n Vic Zikoor from the Arab American Cultural Center<\/span><\/p>\n Nahid Alinazee from the Muslim Advocates<\/span><\/p>\n Mylene Madrid from the Refugee Clinic<\/span><\/p>\n NhuHahn Tonnu from the Refugee Forum<\/span><\/p>\n Richard Konda from the Asian Law Alliance<\/span><\/p>\n Tamika N. van den Akker our County\u2019s Refugee Coordinator<\/span><\/p>\n Ammal Elhaddad<\/span><\/p>\n Teresa Castellanos from our County’s Office of Immigrant Relations<\/span><\/p>\n Stephanie Jayne from the City of San Jose\u2019s Office of Immigrant Affairs<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By \u00a0Dave Cortese Santa Clara County Supervisor As a County, we frequently highlight and commemorate the many contributions made by our diverse residents. Today was no exception as my Board colleagues and I adopted a proclamation declaring August as Muslim Appreciation and Awareness Month. The proclamation is a gesture of our continued support and solidarity […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":4759,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[277,278],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-recent-events","category-slideshow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacificainstitute.org\/bay-area\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacificainstitute.org\/bay-area\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacificainstitute.org\/bay-area\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacificainstitute.org\/bay-area\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacificainstitute.org\/bay-area\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pacificainstitute.org\/bay-area\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacificainstitute.org\/bay-area\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacificainstitute.org\/bay-area\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacificainstitute.org\/bay-area\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacificainstitute.org\/bay-area\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}