ET: I was born in 1982, in the beautiful American city of San Jose, California. A proud patriotic Muslim American, my dad would decorate our house with lights every Fourth of July.
Fast forward to the year 2001, when I got admitted to one of America’s top medical schools – the Harvard Medical School in Boston. Moving from San Jose was hard. I stayed in the dorm. Every morning, when I went to take a shower, I saw a sticker on one of thebathroom mirrors on my floor that said,
‘Whoever is a friend of the Muslims is a traitor of Christianity and of America’.
In the evenings, sometimes, I would go to the reading room to study. Right on the entrance door, I would find the same sticker. I saw similar messages written on public vans and buses and plastered on walls across Boston. I heard fiery speeches against Islam by Christian clerics in downtown Boston, some calling for my death.
I felt intimidated, unwelcomed and unaccepted.
I often wondered why there was not a single Christian student, out of the thousands at Harvard, who had the moral integrity to tear down the hate stickers on campus – hate stickers that openly attacked me for being Muslim.
Would Christ not preach universal love and peace?
What had happened to those who claimed to follow him?
Categories: Americas
It is a sad story, hard to believe. Ignorance is not the monopoly of Pakistan, it exists all over the world in various forms and severity. New comers in various societies face this dilemma and most of them overcome these trials with patience and being steadfast. It is actually the ignorant mullas in Pakistan who are trying to destroy the beauties of Islam in the eyes of the world but how long? Soon they will meet their Creator and face the punishment in hell.
Not sure why the author would use the “key” to tell the story.
JAB KISI SE KOI GILA RAKHANA,
SAAMNE APNE AAINA RAKHANA.