Hayko Bagdat In a tweet fired off earlier this month, Turkish sociologist Yahya Mustafa Keskin from Abant Izzet Baysal University took aim at journalist Hayko Bagdat — who has Armenian roots — by mockingly referring to him as the “remains Read More …
Category: Speaker Series
Ismail Akbulut: Greece – a cradle of Western civilization
Greece – a cradle of Western civilization, home of the first democracy, and birthplace of Socrates, one of the founders of Western Philosophy. I’d always wanted to visit Greece, but as someone with Turkish heritage, the word “Greek” contained a Read More …
PRESS RELEASE: Response to threatening messages.
AURORA, COLORADO August 30th 2018. Multicultural Mosaic Foundation (MMF) is a Colorado based non-profit, dedicated to understanding, dialog and peace. Since 2016 our foundation has received several direct or indirect threatening messages. An example can be seen in the attached Read More …
OP-ED: Does the Gülen (Hizmet) Movement Deny the Armenian Genocide? by Ismail Akbulut
In the past, certain individuals affiliated with the Gülen Movement, and sometimes the movement as a whole, have often been accused of supporting lobbying efforts to circumvent the passing of resolutions that commemorate the Armenian genocide. Members of the Armenian Read More …
Shalom-Salaam facilitates women-to-women interfaith dialogue for Jews, Muslims, Christians
By ANDREA JACOBS. Intermountain Jewish News. December 8th, 2017 On the surface, Bobbi Furer and Gulsum Ciftci Katmer are worlds apart. Furer, 87, is Jewish. Katmer,31, is Muslim. But they are joined at the hip by their shared gender, humanity Read More …
OP-ED: ‘You Will Burn in Hell’ by Ismail Akbulut
President of Multicultural Mosaic Foundation’s opinion piece in the Armenian Mirror-Spectator: ‘You Will Burn in Hell’ “You will burn in hell! Since you’ve committed treason, you’re no longer worthy to carry out God’s mission!” That’s a curse recently hurled at Read More …
OP-ED: Why I Am Grateful to Erdogan, the Dictator of Turkey by Ismail Akbulut
President of Multicultural Mosaic Foundation’s opinion piece in the Armenian Mirror-Spectator: Why I Am Grateful to Erdogan, the Dictator of Turkey November 2nd, 2017 I am sure that the very title I chose for this article will enrage some of Read More …
PRESS RELEASE by Colorado Muslim Leadership: Statement on Charlottesville – VA, Barcelona – Spain and Turku Finland
Press Release CONTACT: Imam Shakir Muhammad, Colorado Imam Council Coordinator Email: coimamco@gmail.com Statement on Charlottesville – VA, Barcelona – Spain and Turku Finland. August 18, 2017, Denver, Colorado – The Colorado Muslim Leadership and Colorado Imam Council express their sadness, Read More …
Support Mosaic’s fundraiser program to help high school students graduate from South High School
Mosaic’s fundraiser program to help high school students graduate from South High School Immigrant students are three times more likely than native-born Americans to drop out of high school. While immigrants in the United States comprise only about one-tenth of Read More …
Statement of Solidarity with the Fort Collins Muslim community
Multicultural Mosaic Foundation is deeply concerned about the incidents of vandalism against mosques, the latest of which took place on March 26 in Fort Collins, Colorado. The Islamic Center of Fort Collins was attacked by a person who threw rocks Read More …