Library patrons check out a diverse group of ‘human books’ in Baltimore County

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A woman in an Islamic headscarf sat in Baltimore County’s Owings Mills branch library on Saturday trying to dispel misconceptions about Muslims.

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Zainab Chaudry, the Muslim woman from Howard County, was assigned 297.092, a category that includes books about people associated with Islam.

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“I feel like we can benefit from talking to one another,” said Chaudry, who is the Maryland outreach director for the Council on American-Islamic Relations, a nonprofit group. “We live in a society where everything is on social media and everybody is talking at each other behind screens and we lose so much context of what we’re trying to say.”

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