Celebrating Fourth of July as a Muslim (Christian Science Monitor)
Posted in Op-Eds on Jul 5th, 2011
“That’s my home.” My heart whispered this thought 15 years ago while looking down at the streets of Pakistan. The plane had just left for New York from Lahore and I was glued to the window, teary eyed. If leaving my country was distressing, not knowing if I would ever return was agonizing. And all the agony was due to one single fact: I was an Ahmadi Muslimand Pakistan’s constitution had shunned me as a second-class citizen.
Just two weeks later, I dragged my bones to watch the Fourth of July (1996) fireworks at the New Jersey Shore. Back then it was not “my...
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