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 …
City of Residence: St. Paul, MN Occupation: Retired City of Residence: St. Paul, MN Occupation: Former President of the St Paul NAACP Excerpt: Abdulkhaliq: “When I think back to the civil rights struggle and how we were treated and stereotyped and we’re still going through this to a certain extent; but how now post 9/11, a …
City of Residence: Woodbury, MN Occupation: Civil Engineer Excerpt: “The diversity I found in my youth was simply astonishing. I mean, to be honest with you, when I was growing up in East Africa, I was in a very closed and very Indian environment. But when I went to the UK, as well as later on as …
City of Residence: Maple Grove, MN Occupation: Pharmacist Excerpt: I think we have to realize that [when] we do the Sunday schools, the Islamic schools, the weekend schools, that we are not in Kabul anymore. We are not in Karachi anymore. We are not in Cairo anymore. We are not in Mogadishu anymore. We’re in America and we …
City of Residence: New Brighton, MN Occupation: Tailor Excerpt: “For me my challenge was myself, otherwise I have no challenge, because life is the way you live. Life is challenge always but if you try to be good to your community wherever you live the community you live into and also if you greet people even no …