At a Middlesex County meeting, a staff member presented a resolution recognizing January as Muslim Heritage Month and urged awareness of the Muslim community’s contributions to the county.

The staff member said the resolution was intended to “mak[e] awareness that the Muslim community has made significant achievements that have directly contributed to the positive growth and diversity in Middlesex County, in as far as, education, music, government, medicine, philosophy, mathematics, literature, culinary culture, architecture, arts, and and and so much more.”

The presenter also stated that “Muslims are the world's 2nd largest religious population with approximately 2,000,000,000 followers and 3% of them reside right here in New Brunswick,” and added that the resolution seeks to “combat injustice, anti Muslim hate, and Islamophobia.” Those numerical assertions were made by the presenter and are quoted here as stated in the transcript; the transcript does not verify those figures.

The presenter closed by offering congratulations and thanks to attendees. The transcript provided does not record a formal vote or further action on the resolution.

Details recorded in the meeting transcript indicate the presentation occurred during an agenda item introducing the resolution; the excerpted discussion in the provided transcript covered roughly two minutes and included a single speaker presenting the measure.