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Because we have a division of our guide to. Tell me about your story. Where it you come from . Guest i am also told you to do look like a muslims so it is a double whammy. I thought there is rob tiberius a at the left around the 1948 and came to the states in the 50s with the 60 yearold graduate from the university of illinois my. Had been a brother was very young and the 1948 and her father was a civil digit year employe aig two freight. By background as my father, back to the oilrich gulf states cj a job at the age of 26 fall league above with my brother id to wait started their family. I also corrupted to buy grew up id to buy it you 80. A region where it . We back no. Actually he would work the next to her home and watched her go we id and out of the house and fell in love with her. Favor eventually introduced by mutual friends. Lot was school here with your whole churchy to be palestinian living in america . Guest at the age of 16 prior to that my father had bought a small homes so i grew up watching reruns of by trayvon of gdp and father knows best. I was familiar with the American Experience with the cultural aspect. When i finally ended up bad georgetown i fell in love with our Founding Fathers you the American Dream. I never did it jury these security so we were at the whim of working permits so i very but she took it to heart the values of the American Dream period protection and it affords the immigrants. Host you fell in love with your husband because you very. But you were daughter reached . Guest no. Nobody has sped arranged. That is not a tradition. Good of the web and i can identify. Even my grandmother grayback wind. We come from a long glide of progressive with red with big. Host i try to see how you go from a typical cub to this country, but falling in love, live in manhattan, two beautiful children did you write books . What happened . Back ive was more political than interesting and by interest fell in that field but the poor by 11 thiokol us accidental muslims because midi of us was of a certain religion in of the accident at birth but i feat with her beloved it i am not to load it forces you to grapple with what it needs to be american muslim after everybody was on trial. Every talky point. On tv was an expert in tubes to be told you can be a world food and abuzz love you to be liberated and the violence was apparent to the theologies so there was a lot cubby at to be. My daughter was starting kindergarten i very but torrey about the future of my children indite fought if that is just a label that we are as a family because of the ancestral loyalty then why put them through that challenge . Since the beginning of this juror be. Host so then to the terrorists blow up to beautiful buildings in our state, city, a country. What is the impact of a person like you that lives comfortably in bet hadnt . What do you fake . Civic or that audiences never gets to viscid from people like you. How do you think they affected your life . They affected the life that they took away so savagely that day. My perspective personally the paid the paid of those lost that day the board aid that we were all doing is compounded by and other challenge that we were killed by association. That was part ridgy lead difficulty of even the more so as the mother as you grapple with trying to make since seven 04 two very innocent children. Host your son did . Guest she was three you to my daughter was just beginning the kindergarten. I remember sadly her first day at school was somebody of 9 11. First official day of kindergarten. I write about this in the book that i packed a tidy car ron in her backpack it is spiritual to protect my daughter. Host like the Christians Carol Braun dash wearing a cross. As i watched the images that day with the building in a disco rigged up a and cheeky that barry save bichir book that i packed with love would be used to free the havoc it hates in destruction is that juxtaposition of the two realities was my age the began and critical at a parity level. So the jury has bad to owed by religion and power by children we can teach them to disassociate and ive also told that we have stereotypes out there aided the you try to develop your identity you can say i am not quite muslim. People are changing the names right now or from doing ramadan they are closing up. Is a very natural reaction but one that i hope , i do feel that by taking my children along on this journey to insist they benefit but i take them long as they learn together, they have chosen to self identify. So that they can hold both america accountable for the ideals as they can hold islam higher that if they become the the the new body bit of what it needs to be Truly American as agents of change. It is profound that you choose to do this with your life. Because there are two types of people, those to take it upon themselves to make change but even with your prior book called the faith club i remember every time ive lectured there is a little lady who comes out the faith club by taking you were bid. That was one book about three with a bid country to get their data you have written this new book that is self examining. Id love the title. I said what is she trying to say . What are you trying to convey . Guest some people took issue because they thought somehow the gurkha the pork out led the the stereotypes but i feat is catchy the way that it sounds the coz it had all the elements period it did say before for what people may associate with islam. Is the issue i deal with you are right to say my charity started back with the face club it was a blessing because a check be all over the country from idaho 02 jacksonville, florida and i fell in love with america all over again it was a face faith club all over. Wheel me have the headlines or we dont have the neighbor. It is just such a gift. Book number two, this one is the jerky journey i have taken a lowkey and the beazer unit have taken on the issues that would be challenging to be sure that they self identify all of the just to be ones that was parkland or part to this is a continuation of the journey i had started. Host i saw it to take back is log but also the abetted states because some profound faith have happened that you talk about, but experiences with your children that propelled them to take action and. We will talk about that later. But there is some vague you rich and that you suffer from what . I am a very curious. Guest that is difficult. At the time when i made that statement i dont feel it today of course, i had members of their respective temples they used churches in with times of paid in distress they had a place to worship, a committee, have their children introduced to come together as a key broody to confirm their identity as a part of a community as a spiritual people. There are losses exceeded new york city but to understand why in the understand we are definitely secular we are progressive. I needed a place of worship where predid not stick out as a source of. We are first and foremost, americans. Host that is to share the values your faith with a cultural expression. Guest that is my experience