City of Residence: Burnsville, MN Occupation: Small Business Owners Excerpt: Enes: “It doesn’t matter what color you are, where you are from, what religion you are; it’s bringing the community together, we’re all here so we’re all “something” American, so, I think it’s important to bring the community like that, not just say, “I’m this”, and pull to …
City of Residence: Albert Lea, MN Occupation: Pediatrician & Assoc Prof of Islamic Law Excerpt: “Well, the word ‘shariah’ itself in the language, linguistically, means a path and it more so means a path to a water body, or it means the water body itself. And the resemblance here between the path to a water body and …
City of Residence: Minneapolis, MN Occupation: Restaurateur Excerpt: “Well, I am an Iraqi-American who feels that as I am Iraqi 100% and American 100%, that makes me 200% human being. And that goes beyond all the labels. Because I am an American, an Iraqi equally and because I am a human being above everything, when the war …
City of Residence: Duluth, MN Occupation: Management Information Systems professor at University of Minnesota-Duluth / Homemaker Excerpt: “I do not doubt that there are elements within the Muslim community that have decided that they are the only ones that have the monopoly for the truth, they are the only ones that have monopoly for what is right and …
City of Residence: Northfield, MN Occupation: Student at Carleton College Excerpt: “It’s a lot more private here at Carleton than it’s—I don’t know if private is the right word, personal. It’s a lot more having to motivate myself because there isn’t a Masjid in town. I was really lucky about was I had a fantastic, very, very …
City of Residence: Minneapolis, MN Occupation: Student at North Dakota State University Excerpt: “In general, the Muslim youth have a very distinctive challenge, and this is probably very similar to a lot of the immigrant communities, but it has a different connotation when it comes to religious difference, and that is the double identities: the fact that you …
City of Residence: Rochester, MN Occupation: Physician of General Internal Medicine, Women‘s Health Excerpt: “I think the kids understand how much it took for us to come from where we were, you know, back in Kashmir, and where we are now. I think they respect us for that, and realize that it was not a simple task, it …
City of Residence: Fridley, MN Occupation: Nursing Assistant Excerpt: “And New York actually had a pretty big impact on me because I went to Catholic schools, I was put in Catholic schools; I had a little stint every now and then in public schools, but I always wound up getting put back into Catholic schools. I think …
City of Residence: South Minneapolis, MN Occupation: Vice President of Special Assets Group of US Bank Excerpt: “My grandparents on both sides actually are American… have American citizenships. They had come to this country, you know many, many years ago. My grandfather on my father’s side was an orphan and came here when he was a teenager. …
City of Residence: Fridley, MN Occupation: School Principal Excerpt: “When I had finished my teaching degree at Macalester College, I worked at a school called Muslim Community School and a year after I started there it had some financial issues and it stopped being a school. My two younger sons were little, one was coming up to about …