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]]>Vendors such as Douglas Pizzeria and Grill, Ibby’s Falafel, Kasra Restaurant, Chinese Mirch and Kabab and Curry Express lined the park while attendees lined up for tasty ethnic food for the all-day event that started at noon and ends at 7 p.m.
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]]>Organized by the Muslim Youth Community Center, the festival’s halal food – prepared according to Islamic guidelines and permissible for Muslims to eat – included cuisine from the Middle East, China, South Asia, Afghanistan and America. Non-food vendors at the event sold clothes, jewelry and books.
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]]>What began nine years ago as a loosely-organized series of pickup games in Flanders, N.J., has grown into a thriving rec league with at least 36 teams at any given time across three divisions. Former NBA star Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf, former Ivy League Player of the Year Ibrahim Jaaber, and former Seton Hall standout Marcus Toney-El are a few of the notables who have made it down to Muslim Basketball’s regular gym in Parsippany, N.J.
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]]>Worn by Muslims and non-Muslims alike, the reversible jerseys are the uniforms for players in a league called Muslim Basketball. What began as ordinary outdoor pick-up games in 2005 has grown into a nonprofit organization with three divisions, 28 teams and roughly 220 players.
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]]>They are high-school students, representatives of the Washington, D.C., region of the Muslim Inter-Scholastic Tournament, informally known as MIST. Many of them are planning to play in a basketball tournament, but they are also poets, actors, artists, filmmakers and web designers. They are waiting on Union Drive for buses that will take them to Toronto to compete in MIST’s national tournament.
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]]>Not long after his prayers, Ibrahim got dressed — long basketball shorts, a white No. 9 uniform top and a pair of Nikes — and headed to his game in the Islamic high school basketball league, which is the first organized sports league for Muslim high schools in New Jersey. It’s also a league Ibrahim, 16, helped form.
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]]>“Sometimes we’d sneak out of prayers to play ball,” recalled Abdelkader, who grew-up attending the Worcester Islamic Center in central Massachusetts. Like a growing number of American mosques, the Worcester Islamic Center has a basketball court — and hence a built-in temptation for younger members.
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