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 …