American Muslims Fight Stereotype with “Handbook”
The American Muslim Teenager’s Handbook is beginning to gain momentum. It was put together by a mother and her teenage daughter and son in an effort to combat misconceptions about Muslims following 9/11. For more on the book, read this review.
“Partly the onus is on us,” Mrs Hafiz, a native of Pakistan who was educated in the US and the United Kingdom, says of the American Muslim community. “It’s taken years for Muslims to say if we don’t define who we are, we’re letting others define us.”
Yasmine adds: “If you call yourself a Muslim, no one has the right to take that away from you.”
You can order the book on Amazon or directly from the authors’ website. For more recent coverage of this book, click here.
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July 6, 2008 9:17 am
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By DH, July 11, 2008 @ 1:11 pm
Salaams Shawna - thanks for the post! Just to let you know that ‘The American Muslim Teenager’s Handbook’ is now in over 600 libraries in 34 states - so anyone curious about Islam can flip thru the pages to get a glimpse of American Muslims as Boy Scouts, students, activists, dancers etc.