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| Are people thinking of leaving? |
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| jannah |
| 04/09/03 at 09:35:53 |
| [slm] I read this today and thought of the comments from a number of people recently about leaving the US. Are people seriously thinking of leaving? FAMILY FINDS SAFETY IN THEIR MUSLIM FAITH Bill Marvel, Dallas Morning News, 4/8/03 http://www.dallasnews.com/ Like any other American couple, Muhammad al-Amin and his wife, Afreen, are spending more time in front of the television set these days. But the reality of war was brought home to the couple vividly even before the first shots were fired. Recently, Afreen al-Amin got a phone call from her mother in Bangladesh. "She wanted us to come back," says Afreen al-Amin. The al-Amins, who came from Bangladesh about 10 years ago, became U.S. citizens last year. Muhammad al-Amin founded Ameriss, a Dallas-area telecommunications and software company that last year was listed among Inc magazine's top 500 fastest-growing companies. He is active in the Dallas Central Mosque. His wife, a certified Montessori teacher, takes care of the couple's three children, Shabnam, 8, Yazan, 7, and 13-month-old Yaquin. Muhammad al-Amin says that relatives back home hear about the occasional incidents of hatred directed against American Muslims and worry about the family's safety... "They think that we are always a target," says Afreen al-Amin, "especially if we are wearing the hijab... But the family has experienced nothing but courtesy from its non-Muslim neighbors, Muhammad al-Amin says. Nevertheless, among many Muslims there is a heightened sense of anxiety and even some anger about the war against Iraq... |
| Re: Are people thinking of leaving? |
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| M.F. |
| 04/09/03 at 11:12:12 |
| Assalamu alaikum, Surprisingly enough, working here at the Fulbright office in Morocco, I haven't seen a huge drop in people who want to get a grant to study in the US. After 9-11, there was a slight drop, but people are still very interested, still coming in for applications. At the university where I used to work there are still huge numbers of students who want to go on exchange to the US. And my dad who runs a language school told me that the numbers of people who want to learn English is ever rising, and people are asking about TOEFL prep which is a requirement for getting into American universities.... paradoxical isn't it? Anti American sentiment is fierce! And yet-many-maybe most people still would go there given a chance, and many are trying every way they can.... |
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| ltcorpest2 |
| 04/09/03 at 12:09:02 |
| Jannah, you are not one of those America, love it or leave people are you? |
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