Burquas, Baseball, and Apple Pie: Being Muslim in America

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American, Muslim, and Proud - One's Family's Story

For many Americans, the words "American" and "Muslim" simply do not marry well. For many, the combination is an anathema, a contradiction in values, loyalties, and identities. This is the story of how, through the lives, their schools, their friends, and their neighbours, one American Muslim family ended up living the challenges, myths, fears, hopes, and dreams of all Americans.

In this moving memoir, Ranya Tabari Idliby explores what it means to be Muslim in America today and reveals the obstacles she faces as she tries to raise her children and teach them about their heritage and religious legacy. She discusses life in a world where hostility toward Muslims runs rampant, where there is an entire industry of anti-Muslim sentiment financed and supported by think tanks, authors, film makers, and individual vigilantes whose sole purpose is to vilify and spread fear about all things Muslim - a world where her son is called a terrorist and her daughter wonders if she could one day marry a Jewish boy.

Her story is quintessentially American, a story of the struggle to assimilate and find acceptance in a harsh climate of confusion and prejudice - a story for anyone who has experienced being an outsider inside their own country.