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The tone was distinctively light at Friday night’s Muslim Students Association dinner, where music and comedy were the main entertainment of an evening meant to ring in
the Islamic New Year.

It was the kind of event that reminded Imam Syed Z. Sayeed how old he is.

“Islamofascism Awareness Week”—and the invitation of David Horowitz, CC ’59 to Columbia—has conservative, liberal, and religious groups braced for debate.

More than 200 students, family members, and area residents gathered in prayer as darkness fell Saturday to celebrate the breaking of a day of fasting, called an Iftar, beginning the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.