Comments on: “Facing Race: Muslims and Islam” Series: Breaking Matzah, Growing up Muslim Amongst Jews

By: Zeba Khan

Zeba Khan — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 18:29:53 +0000

Laura, now that I’m reading your comment, I do recall my mother mentioning another Muslim family enrolling their child for a year around the time my siblings were in the school. Thank you for the correction.

By: Laura Kassem

Laura Kassem — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 22:02:00 +0000

I too share this weird commonality of growing Muslim amongst Jews. In fact Zeba forgot, but I too also attended Hebrew Academy but not as long as her and her siblings. I was the only Arab in this school. I moved on to a regular inner city public school amongst mainly Christians and then to an affluent public school for junior high and high school that had a large Jewish population who taught me to shalom rav al yisreal (grant peace over Isreal).

By: Naif Al-Mutawa

Naif Al-Mutawa — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 18:46:55 +0000

Very interesting read Zeba.

By: KwJ

KwJ — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 15:09:48 +0000

Great read! Look forward to more from this author…

By: Zeba Iqbal

Zeba Iqbal — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 14:07:51 +0000

Zeba –

My parents came in the 60s too and that is exactly their experience – being Muslim-American for them meant having a diverse group of Muslim friends and community members from all ethnic backgrounds – and being American meant serving in American society with fellow Americans.

Now mosques are enclaves of Muslims of various ethnic communities and one can grow up in America – being South Asian Muslim and never meet non-Muslims or non-South Asian Muslims. Its sad that all Muslims (much less all Americans) don’t always know of the diversity and pluralism of Islam and Muslims.

Your Hebrew school experience is amazing – your parents were very wise.

Zeba