Faiza Beshir, 12, makes her way up the stairs for prayer at the First Hijrah Community Center in Washington, D.C. on August 10, 2007. The Foundation of the First Hijrah is a non-profit, non-political, humanitarian Islamic organization established by a community of Ethiopian Muslims in North America in order to advance and protect the Islamic way of life as well as safeguard the interests of Ethiopian Muslims around the world.(Photo by Ivan Pierre Aguirre/washingtonpost.com) (taken 08/10/07)