He rummaged through my bag, looked at a smelly pair of shoes, my banana, hesitated on my copy of The Autobiography of Malcolm X…
The article highlights an oft-ignored part of the greater discussion rampant today in the United States, specifically New York, regarding the role of Muslim Americans in American society at large and within the individual communities.
To be of the South Asian persuasion means there are several cultural observations you must oblige to, ideally without much verbal protest: spicy foods, medical degree, a severe lack of emphasis on the virtue of the outdoors, engineering, being felt up and checked out by very investigative mothers of single young men at dinner parties