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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIn a Minnesota town that went for Trump, a Muslim doctor tries to understand his neighbors
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/in-a-midwestern-town-that-went-for-trump-a-muslim-doctor-tries-to-understand-his-neighbors/2017/07/01/0ada50c4-5c48-11e7-9fc6-c7ef4bc58d13_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_minnesotamuslim-640pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.3ba9512115e8DAWSON, MINN. The doctor was getting ready. Must look respectable, he told himself. Must be calm. He changed into a dark suit, blue shirt and tie and came down the wooden staircase of the stately Victorian house at Seventh and Pine that had always been occupied by the towns most prominent citizens.
That was him: prominent citizen, town doctor, 42-year-old father of three, and as far as anyone knew, the first Muslim to ever live in Dawson, a farming town of 1,400 people in the rural western part of the state.
Does this look okay? Ayaz Virji asked his wife, Musarrat, 36.
In two hours, he was supposed to give his third lecture on Islam, and he was sure it would be his last. A local Lutheran pastor had talked him into giving the first one in Dawson three months before, when people had asked questions such as whether Muslims who kill in the name of the prophet Muhammad are rewarded in death with virgins, which had bothered him a bit. Two months later, he gave a second talk in a neighboring town, which had ended with several men calling him the antichrist.
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In a Minnesota town that went for Trump, a Muslim doctor tries to understand his neighbors (Original Post)
WhiskeyGrinder
Jul 2017
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athena
(4,187 posts)1. A great read.
Thanks for posting it.
MissB
(15,812 posts)2. Thank you. That was a good read.
The questions from his third lecture were good. Gives me some hope.
treestar
(82,383 posts)3. A good read
Just shows how right wingers can be reasonable if they know people. They just have no abstract abilities.