An article in today's New York Times

[kerewin21 2]

Check it out:

An Imam in America

[tnh9479 1]

What an interesting article! Thanks a lot...I enjoyed reading it!

Twila

[karotte 0]

It looks like it's a series - there's a new article about the same imam on nytimes.com today.

[UmmSqueakster 54]

Very interesting. It's nice to see our community portrayed as normal people dealing with real issues, as opposed to the stereotypes.

I forwarded it on to my DH. It will be interesting to see what he thinks, since egyptian farmers don't tend to be highly regarded by the rest of egyptian society.

[kerewin21 2]

Very interesting. It's nice to see our community portrayed as normal people dealing with real issues, as opposed to the stereotypes.

I forwarded it on to my DH. It will be interesting to see what he thinks, since egyptian farmers don't tend to be highly regarded by the rest of egyptian society.

Rahma, I'd love to hear what your husband thinks about it, I didn't know about the status of egyptian farmers. Something I thought interesting was that he didn't really bother to learn English, and also that he felt he had to wear "street" clothes to take the subway.

[UmmSqueakster 54]

Rahma, I'd love to hear what your husband thinks about it, I didn't know about the status of egyptian farmers. Something I thought interesting was that he didn't really bother to learn English, and also that he felt he had to wear "street" clothes to take the subway.

Apparently farmers are the egyptian equivilent of a hillbilly here, not too bright or sophisticated. Every time I ask my husband to wear a galabiya or a thobe out, he refuses on the grounds that only farmers wear them outside However, he can't explain why his best friend here wears one all the time and he's an egyptian-american and clearly not a farmer. Silly husband

I dunno if he hasn't bothered to learn english or just that he doesn't speak it well enough to give a decent interview to the New York Times. Most of the religious leaders in my area speak half way decent english, but it would be nice to have access to scholars locally who speak fluent english. Oh well, thats what Sunnipath and Hamza Yusuf lectures are for, I guess.

[tnh9479 1]

Something I thought interesting was that he didn't really bother to learn English, and also that he felt he had to wear "street" clothes to take the subway.

That is what I found interesting as well when I was talking to Hicham about it this morning.

Twila

[daisy16 0]

Very interesting. Thanks for the post