XVIII anra: for a kid raised in a motley family of
VERVOLG ASLAN REZA
LUKEWARM MUSLIMS AND EXUBERANT ATHEISTS,
this was truly the greatest story ever told. Never before
Reza felt so intimately the pull of G d. In Iran, the place of his birth,
he was Muslim in much the same way he was Persian! His religion and ethnicity
were mutual & linked? Like most people born into a religious tradition, his faith was
as familiar to him as his skin, & just as disregardable! After the Iranian revolution forced
his family to flee their home, religion in general, & Islam in particular, became taboo in their household.
Islam was shorthand for everything we had lost to the mullahs
who now ruled Iran.
RA:
"My mother
still prayed when no one was looking,
and you could still find a stray Quran or two
hidden in a closet or a drawer some-
where. But, for the most part,
our lives were scrubbed
of all traces
of God."
LUKEWARM MUSLIMS AND EXUBERANT ATHEISTS,
this was truly the greatest story ever told. Never before
Reza felt so intimately the pull of G d. In Iran, the place of his birth,
he was Muslim in much the same way he was Persian! His religion and ethnicity
were mutual & linked? Like most people born into a religious tradition, his faith was
as familiar to him as his skin, & just as disregardable! After the Iranian revolution forced
his family to flee their home, religion in general, & Islam in particular, became taboo in their household.
Islam was shorthand for everything we had lost to the mullahs
who now ruled Iran.
RA:
"My mother
still prayed when no one was looking,
and you could still find a stray Quran or two
hidden in a closet or a drawer some-
where. But, for the most part,
our lives were scrubbed
of all traces
of God."
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