The origins of the DC Green Muslims lie in an organic vegetarian potluck of 15 people, held in October of 2007. They had gathered to celebrate a "green Iftar," putting an environmental spin on the meal that breaks the fast during the holy month of Ramadan. "We wanted to have a catalyst to get people thinking," explains Nadia Janjua, an architect who helped launch the group. "We wanted to talk about where do we get our meat from and where do we get our produce from."
Article has interesting stuff on the history of ecology in American Islamic orgs too.
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