Islamic leader wants to educate area students
This story appeared in the Antelope Valley Press
Wednesday, February 27, 2008.
By JAMES RUFUS KOREN
Valley Press Staff Writer
LANCASTER – In response to a fracas earlier this month outside an Islamic cemetery, local Islamic leader Kamal al-Khatib said he wants to educate local high school students about Islamic burial traditions.
About 150 people, many of them from Quartz Hill High School, on Feb. 1 gathered outside the Islamic Cemetery and Mortuary in Rosamond to protest the burial of Ryan Alamoodi, a 17-year-old Quartz Hill student who died in a car crash earlier that week.