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Ряпа да ядат.
Хамерика и параноята й срещу онази летяща реплика на Кенеди "..и вярвам, че никой днес не би избрал да живее другаде и в друго време"
This is the letter from Ayesha Ahmed, a young Muslim journalist in Maryland.
2003 saw the second anniversary of the 11 September attacks on New York and Washington - an event which profoundly changed the lives of many people, including American Muslims. This is the letter from Ayesha Ahmed, a young Muslim journalist in Maryland.
Life can have its joys and trials, completely independent of anything larger than our own circles of experience.
But that may be just an illusion. If, for example, I and a certain young man had not felt the need of educating ourselves about our religion in light of all the problems our global community faced even before 9/11, we may never have been in the same class, met, and eventually gotten married this year.
That's some of the good news in 2003. The same month we said our vows, in May, I also graduated after three years in a postgraduate journalism programme, and in February I got a job at a local community newspaper - my first full-time newspaper job.
Working for a community newspaper, I don't get much chance to cover such large issues as international politics, foreign policy, or federal domestic policies that I feel strongly about, but the large issues affect even people who live in my small city.
For this year's 11 September issue, for example, I interviewed Muslims in my area about how their community had changed since September 2001.
Their response - that people were afraid of being targeted and arrested unjustly because they were Muslim - encapsulated how the domestic "war on terrorism" affects us as Muslims, creating fear, resentment and suspicion.
For one, the consequences of the Patriot Act, including the expansion of nearly unchecked federal power, has started to feel like a creeping disease slowly overtaking the Muslim-American community.
I am appalled, but no longer shocked, when I hear about things like the Canadian-Syrian citizen deported by the US to Syria, or Florida professor Sami al-Arian being arrested after years of trying to work with the system to end such undemocratic practices as "secret evidence".
The hypocrisy we see makes us question our own integrity paying taxes and living here
I had met Sami as a reporter, and some of his family as well. Since then there have been others I know personally who have been arrested.
I've begun to wonder which of my acquaintances or friends might be next; it feels as though things are quietly falling apart around me.
US foreign policy has the same effect on me - that feeling that nothing can quite stop the succession of bad moves that may doom the whole planet to endless war.
Personally I've had an amazing year. But among both friends and journalistic sources, I've heard people express the sentiment of wanting to leave, to live somewhere else because the hypocrisy we see makes us question our own integrity paying taxes and living here.
But where else would we go? This is our home, too, and it's our responsibility to work to make it better.
My husband and I continue to work towards both deepening our faith and increasing our knowledge of Islam and the world around us, to better our understanding of our responsibilities as Muslims living in America.
Sharing with him both the freedoms and the trials of being Muslim in America gives us both strength.
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