From roughly 3 to 6 p.m. every Friday at the Hillsboro Civic Center Plaza, 150 E. Main Street, Zafar and two fellow Muslims – Arman Butt and Rafael Vacahoping – hang out, inviting people talk, hoping to bridge the divide between Muslims and non-Muslims
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By Geoff Pursinger | July 8, 2017
They want to start an open dialogue with people who may not know any Muslims
Six months after his talk at Pacific University, Harris Zafar and friends bring ‘Ask a Muslim’ to Hillsboro plaza
As anti-Muslim comments and attacks increase across the country, so does Harris Zafar’s counterattack: friendly conversations.
Zafar, who came to the Portland area 30 years ago, is the national spokesman for the Ahmadi Muslim community and regularly appears in magazine articles and on television.
Last December, he came to Pacific University to try to dispel negative stereotypes many Americans hold about Islam.
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