American Muslims must embrace challenges – Imam Zaid Shakir
The National, an English newspaper based in Abu Dhabi, has published an opinion piece by Rasha Elass, which quotes Imam Zaid’s recent lecture in New York.
Here are some highlights:
“This is our time. This is our place,” Imam Zaid Shakir told his enthusiastic young Muslim audience in New York. “As a community we’re not invisible, but some of us have chosen to pretend that we are.”
“Yes, there are challenges in this post-9/11 America: the Patriot Act… right-wing elements and their surrogates. But we should embrace the challenges,” he said.
And a quote from Dave Chappelle:
“You’re not playing around, America, because you just put a black man with a brown name in the White House.”
Read the full article here: http://www.thenational.ae/article/20090114/OPINION/778135416/-1/NEWS

Mikael Pittam













