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A growing number of young Muslim girls are joining Girl Scout troops in southeast Michigan, forming new friendships based on faith and aspiring for taking new leadership roles when they get older.
"We want them to be strong and take on leadership roles in the future," Rana Alaouie, who's a volunteer and has two daughters in the group, told Arab American News on Thursday, March 21.
Offering girls role models, the group volunteers teach them to face bullying with love. "We teach them that bullying is wrong and Islam teaches us to love one another," she said. Considered as the biggest Muslim scout group in the US, the Muslim Girl Scouts troop of southeast Michigan has about 250 members.