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Excerpt from My War At Home
Masuda Sultan
AfghanistanGALLERYCONVERSATION
Arguing with myself, and all the while afraid I’d get caught, I walked up to a corner where a row of tables had been set up, packed with...
When I was much younger, I had once watched a bus fail to stop for my mother and me because she was wearing a hijab. Now there was a tangible proof that people had good reason to fear Muslims. I feared misdirected anger toward my Muslim-American community.
Now I was the person behind the volunteer stand – the last point to which any civilians could go. As I handed a peanut butter sandwich to a man in an orange hard hat whose face was powdered with white dust, he smiled, and it felt strange having him accept me. I fought the impulse to confess that I was an Afghan. Part of me felt that I could not say who I was and part of me wanted to say, “Here is a Muslim woman, an Afghan woman who feels this pain too.” But I said nothing.
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