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Editor-in-Chief: Alex Holcomb Managing Editor: Rob Harvey Chief Copy Editor: Olivia Leftwich Engagement Editor: Alec Apostoaei News Editor: Kylie Hubbard Sports Editor: Tyler Wombles Asst. Sports Editor: Damichael Cole Arts & Culture Editor: Neeley Moore Digital Producer: Leann Daniel Asst. Digital Producer: Natasha Roderick Opinons Editor: Jarrod Nelson Photo Editors: Emily Gowder Design Editors: Laurel Cooper, Lauren Mayo Production Artists: Kelly Alley, Grace Atter, Kyla Johnson, Caroline Littel

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I hope you’re doing well and are excited about this issue like I am.

Now, before you dive deep into this and search to see if every religion ever is in here or not, I want to say two things.

One, we had a religious issue in the fall that included most of the religions that get little to no mention in here. So, if you can’t find whatever religion you are looking for, check out the last issue to see what we did there. Also, if it’s not in the paper copy, it’s online. Two, as you know, there are a lot of religions in the world, and to include all of them would be, dare I say it, impossible.

While we tried to include as many as we can between these two issues, the simple fact is that we could not. (I blame poor funding, a busy

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staff and mostly myself). To mitigate this issue, though, I reached out to religious leaders on campus that I feared wouldn’t get representation in this issue and asked them to write a guest column.

And, to further mitigate this issue, I want to encourage you, if you cannot find your beliefs (religious or not) represented in this issue or the last, to write to us about them. The letter to the editor form is on our site, and I’d be happy to publish whatever you have to say. There are so many different beliefs to represent on this campus, and in an effort of inclusivity and curiosity, I hope you do take a chance to write about it.

I’m interested.

I hate to be cliche, but in the world we live in, understanding tends to be treated as a cheap commodity only affordable by those rich in time.

But, I’d like to argue that it’s a treasure for those rich in intelligence.

Understanding someone else’s beliefs does not cost you your own. In fact, it probably makes

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your beliefs stronger. Let’s say I believe the sky is red, but you believe it’s blue. If you still believe that it’s blue even after I make a strong argument that it is red, you believe more in what you said than before I told you what I thought. If you never question or think critically about what you believe, you’re, well, a sheep.

Of course, the Daily Beacon is not asking you to question your beliefs, but I am asking you to entertain other ones. As Aristotle is often misquoted in saying, “It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”

I hope this content is entertaining, at the least, and if you want to contribute to this conversation, please do. I’m looking forward to hearing from you.

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Worship night connects campus, conference

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News Editor For one night in April, students at fourteen SEC schools will forget their rivalries to band together to worship and spread their beliefs.

“All too often we can let our different universities, organizations, majors, churches, ministries and even what we look like divide us,” Kate Kleinhans, senior studying deaf education, said.“SEC Without Walls is a night where we, within our own campus and the SEC as a whole, come together to worship one God.” Without Walls is designed to connect Christian students on campus and across the conference in a night of prayer and worship.

“The heart behind the name Without Walls”is that students are gathering together with people they haven’t ever before despite the walls that often separate us as believers whether that’s race, denominations, greek/non-greek, etc.” Michael Lewis, SEC Without Walls coordinator, said.

Despite the title, the worship night wasn’t always geared to only SEC schools.

“Last year in the fall, some students from MSU, Ole Miss and Southern Miss wanted to do a worship night uniting all three major campuses in the state of Mississippi in worship and prayer,” Lewis said. “It failed miserably.”

Although Mississippi-wide worship never procured more than just a dream, the idea was

brought back to the table at the start of 2017.

“In late January, the idea was re-birthed, but this time with the ambition of the entire SEC instead of just three schools,” Lewis said. “As you can tell now, this one wasn’t a failure. God did some amazing work and has now brought us to where we are today.”

Lewis oversees the 13 campuses participating in the event on April 15 by providing resources and advice and finding leaders to represent each campus.

“Basically every campus has only a few things in common for the night that I facilitate the conversation to agree on these things: date, time, opening song and theme,” Lewis said. “Other than that, I just flood the campus leaders with resources and ideas for promotion, ideas for how the night could look, graphics.”

In Knoxville, Kleinhans heads the one night event along with her “home team.” The team started planning for the event this year as soon as it ended last year.

“It really ramped up in the last two months,” Kleinhans said. “Planning the event entails putting all the logistics together, but more importantly building a team of students from every corner of our campus to be all inclusive.”

Sophomore studying construction science Kyle Evans and junior studying psychology and elementary education Frances Higdon lead logistics and production aspects. They meet with the speaker, manage the stage and find a location

for the event.

Kenzie Stovall, sophomore studying marketing, leads worship by organizing a student band from various ministries and churches, choosing songs and planning practices. Junior studying marketing Emily Sparks builds teams and committees within the larger team of 175 people including a prayer, outreach and setup team, while freshman studying public relations Kyle Basila works with online outreach with social media and advertising.

“I delegate, oversee and help make decisions with my home team, as well as coordinating and communicating with the campus organizers for the other 13 campuses,” Kleinhans said.

Members of the prayer team lead prayer nights before the night of the event, but Kleinhans said the team hopes to host biannual Without Walls worship nights.

“It is a true honor to be surrounded by so many hard-working, God-fearing leaders from across the entire SEC,” Lewis said. “I’m continually blown away by how the Lord works through these leaders to impact there campus.

Kleinhans said she hopes the event will stretch across campus and represent everyone on campus.

“The church is one body, united. That’s our mission and our goal.” Kleinhans said. “In a time in which our country feels divided, it’s never been more important to stand together.”

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Interfaith Network supports students of all backgrounds Olivia Leftwich Copy Editor

One of UT’s newest student organizations is named the Interfaith Network, but members just want to call it home.

The group of about 30 banded together when two campus events occurred in close succession: The arrival of Matthew Heimbach and his Traditionalist Workers Party (TWP) on campus in February and a lecture by Eboo Patel, founder of the national Interfaith Youth Core, on having controversial conversations while respecting differing faith backgrounds.

President of the Interfaith Network and sophomore in biochemistry Ryan Fisher explained that the group was created because, “there’s been a lot of anti-Muslim rhetoric (and) Christian ideological privilege on campus.”

Members include people following Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism and both Protestant and Catholic Christianity. However, members need not be religious as “interfaith” includes those without religious beliefs.

The three goals of the Interfaith Network are communication, service and legislation.

Jonathan Thomas, junior in College Scholars and vice-president of the organization, has acted

as the moderator of the dialogues within the group, and he explained that the conversations emphasize personal backgrounds rather than ideologies.

“I think one thing that people expect is that it’s going to be a debate,” Thomas said. “But I always set ground rules, and one is that we aren’t going to argue theology; we’re going to talk about our personal experiences. Second, is that we’re not here as representatives of our entire faith background or ethnic background.

Some of our experiences are very different, … and coming in knowing that you’re not a representative gives you the freedom to express.”

The leaders of the Interfaith Network, including Fisher and Thomas, all bring fresh pairs of eyes to their meetings. Among the leaders are members of the Hillel Jewish Student Organization, the Muslim Student Association (MSA), the Wesley Foundation and the AsianAmerican InterVarsity Christian Fellowship.

“All of (the leaders), especially the non-Christians, have felt a lack of support from the UT administration. Hillel no longer has a house.

They no longer have a faculty coordinator,” Fisher said. “MSA just gets so much flak, not only from the administration but from the general body of students, and they don’t even have a prayer room. They pray five times a day.”

Courtesy of the UT Interfaith Network Because the group has already made clear what they plan to do, Fisher said that one of the hardest challenges the Interfaith Network has faced so far is impatience.

“We are currently working on a service project, which is technically the foundation of the organization,” Fisher said. “That is what the Interfaith Youth Corps promotes, which is a big part of what we’re trying to do, but that’s a little more difficult to do right now because of school.”

The group believes that, if they are able to gain prominence among students and adminis-

trators, that they will be able to advocate for all faiths on campus. To gain the respect they desire and to follow their faith, members plan to give back to their community.

“Smaller organizations don’t have the means to (accomplish goals) like some of the larger campus organizations,” Thomas said. “We want to show that, even though we may disagree theologically on stuff, we have very similar core values of service and caring for community, and we want to show that we’re integral to the Knoxville community and UT community.”

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The history of religion, race and American identity

Dr. David Kline

Lecturer in Religious Studies

Perhaps no two words capture the drama of American history better than “religion” and “race.”

Questions and conflicts over what constitutes proper or authentic American identity have always included claims about religious truth and racial difference. The early English colonial settlers understood their presence in America as commissioned by the Protestant Christian God, and it was in contrast to others that their faithfulness would be evident.

John Winthrop, the founding governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony, imagined America as a “city on a hill” in the midst of a great wilderness, one that would model for the rest of the world the highest standards of Christianity, love and justice. Such a community of piety would forge their identity in contrast to both heretical Christians and non-Christian others. The latter, which were represented by the indigenous peoples of the Americas and the African slaves forcefully imported into the colonies, provided the colonizers the human objects around which religion and race would come together as the most important markers of both “true” and “untrue” American identity.

Though in certain controlled contexts the indigenous peoples of the Americas were treated with generosity, they were typically feared and viewed as religious idolaters who posed a profound threat to the security and sovereignty of the English colonies. African slaves were viewed in similar ways, described as “barbarians” and sub-human animals whose domestication required brutal disciplining by white Christian masters as well as instruction in the Christian faith.

Fear of non-Christian and non-white others was the linchpin of an emerging American identity unable to conceive the inclusion of difference outside the controlled or forced assimilation into white Christian truth. In the early 18th century, Jonathan Edwards described an America filled with indigenous peoples and African slaves as a mission field, one that before

the arrival of the English Christians had been “nothing but the grossest heathen darkness.”

Edwards’s assumption of Protestant Christian supremacy and the corrupted alterity of non-Christian “heathens” and “negroes” was typical of the colonizing imagination of white Christian Europeans.

The boundary lines of identity were clear: Being Christian and white meant being American, while being non-Christian and non-white meant being on the outside.

The religious and racial imagination of Anglo-European Christian colonialism set the stage for the founding of the United States in 1776, as what religious studies scholar Sylvester Johnson calls the U.S. “racial state.” The United States, Johnson notes, “was the product of white settler colonialism” and was “created as an AngloAmerican republic of White-only citizens.”

This racial state of white supremacism was also one of Christian supremacism. Though the constitution separates church and state and not all the founding fathers considered themselves Orthodox Christians, the constituted political order of white supremacy worked in concert with a Christian supremacist culture in which white identity and Christian identity were considered one and the same.

Though centuries of hard fought cultural and political battles against slavery, the legal structure of Jim Crow and civil rights has opened American identity to non-whites and non-Christians, America still has yet to fully reckon with its foundation of Christian and white supremacism.

The ongoing legacy of the settler-colonial imagination is found across contemporary America’s social, political and economic landscape.

In American presidential politics, for example, it is nearly inconceivable to imagine the election of a president that is not either a white male, Christian or at least affirmative of Christianity as normative. To be sure, there is only one definite example of a president who was not all three at once.

The fact remains that white Christianity still disproportionately influences the distribution of political power in the United States.

The racial violence produced through this influence is a definitive feature of the American criminal justice system, economy and social imagination. To name just a few examples, this includes the well-documented See RELIGION IN AMERICA on Page 5

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war on drugs that overwhelmingly targets and disparagingly affects non-white communities, the directly-related mass incarceration of African Americans, the massive disparities in wealth and economic opportunity between white and black American families, draconian and inhumane immigration policies and the accompanying racial profiling of Hispanic communities and the racially and religiously charged stereotyping of Muslim-Americans and/or Americans of Middle Eastern descent as terrorists.

While there are certainly white Christians devoted to resisting and fighting such injustices, there is much sociological data supporting the idea that white Christians in America are largely indifferent to these realities.

“Christianity and Race” (REST/AMST 355) and “American Religious History” (REST/AMST/HIUS 359), we have critically thought through the history of colonialism in the Americas, the emergence of the category of race in modernity, the relationship between Christian theology and the construction of racial hierarchies, the landscape of religious and racial difference and various forms of resistance to white and Christian supremacy throughout U.S. history.

By critically engaging these themes and issues, and by connecting them to our own life experiences, we are confronted with knowledge of how very complex histories, concepts of human difference, religious beliefs, economic realities, political imaginations and other structures of power construct, shape and inform our own senses of identity.

Getting to such a place of self-knowledge requires much fortitude. For many people, understanding that all identities—national,

“ For many people,understanding that all identities- national, racial, religious, political, gendered and so on- are human constructions which are therefore deconstructable can be a disorienting expierience.

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For example, sociologist Michael O. Emerson’s study on race and white evangelical Christians, Divided by Faith, shows that the theological and cultural worldviews of white evangelicalism, which makes up a very powerful political demographic, largely support and help preserve the reality of a racially segregated American society rather than mitigate it.

All of this elicits the question of what it would mean to construct a different imagination of American identity not tied to the colonizing logic of the racial state. Though there is no simple answer to this question, one important place to begin is study. This is particularly important - although by no means exclusively so - for those of us fortunate enough to be part of a university community.

This semester I have been privileged to engage in such study with some excellent UTK students. In my classes

racial, religious, political, gendered and so on—are human constructions which are therefore deconstructable can be a disorienting experience.

Disorientation, however, is often the very thing that enables us to see how our own senses of identity have closed us off from a whole world of potentially surprising and enriching relationships. By accepting this we open ourselves to the knowledge that a different reality is possible in which the constructed lines that separate one human being from another can be crossed without fear.

David Kline is a lecturer in the Department of Religious Studies and can be reached at dkline@utk.edu

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Local pastor leaves life-long impact on Tennessee student-athletes Damichael Cole

Asst. Sports Editor Fifteen years ago, a local pastor determined that college students had to make the biggest decisions of their lives during that time frame, and he wanted to help. The decision centered around three main points: Determining their master, mission and mate.

Tim Miller, a pastor at Sevier Heights Baptist Church for the past 20 years decided to add a more focused college ministry around fifteen years ago.

“I think that’s what’s drawn me to college students; I want to encourage them as they make three of the most important decisions of their life,” Miller said. “It’ll define the rest of their life.”

In no way did he expect the ministry to take off the way it has with collegiate students.

And in no way did Miller ever want the attention.

That’s one of the main things that has drawn the athletes to Miller. When he meets with them, the conversation is never about sports.

“A lot of people can want things from a student-athlete, but Tim was a guy that we had identified that didn’t care about who we were, but he cared just to be around us as people,” former football captain Chris Walker said.

Now, Miller’s ministry involves hundreds of college students who attend services on Sundays, and many of those are athletes.

Players like Chris Lofton, Curt Maggitt and Josh Dobbs are some of the players who attended Miller’s services.

While a lot of athletes had always been attending, it was around five years ago when Miller’s impact on the athletes reached new heights.

Maggitt, one of the leaders on the football team, decided to make a life-changing decision by receiving baptism. A vocal and outspoken player, Maggit helped pushed the envelope that led to even more athletes attending the church and other events.

“Curt vocalized in an official way to (the) football (game) and said, ‘Hey, I think it would be great if Tim started doing bible studies with us,’” Miller said.

This decision created a North Campus Sevier Heights Baptist Church, roughly three miles from Neyland stadium.

Now, there are athletes all over campus involved in a variety of sports that attend the ‘The Walk’— the service’s name.

Miller has developed a relationship with countless numbers of athletes not just during the services but outside of them as well. He still has a relationship with former

athletes who come back and help out at the church, and he also goes out to hospitals to offer prayers whenever he’s asked.

Among the athletes that notably attend are members of the Tennessee basketball team.

If you watched the Tennessee basketball team this season, it wasn’t hard to see how much they leaned on their faith to help guide them through tough situations.

During the SEC Tournament, a Mississippi State player went down with an injury that silenced the entire Scottrade Center in St. Louis as he laid on the floor.

The Tennessee players on the court rushed over to check on him and then huddled in a circle like always. This time, they bowed their heads and said a prayer for the injured Bulldog.

It is moments like those that are very special to Miller.

“They know there’s more to life than basketball,” Miller said. “God’s given them that platform of basketball to use well.”

A key role in Miller’s life is discipleship and building disciples, or mentees, in his journey. That happened earlier in his tenure when he met Walker.

Walker attended The Walk faithfully on Sunday’s while on campus, and developed a personal relationship with Miller.

“Tim and I, when I was in college got very close,” Miller said. “I got close with Tim, his family and his children.”

Walker now plays a large role in the impact on basketball players as well and travels with the team as a chaplain, often offering prayer and guidance.

Rick Barnes wanted him around the team as much as possible when he saw the impact that he could leave on the players.

“I had a meeting with Coach Barnes before the school year, and he liked what I wanted to do with the team,” Walker said.

This season, the basketball team had one of their most successful seasons in program history.

Their team chemistry was very evident.

Whether it was several players interrupting each other’s interviews making funny faces or players dancing together with the latest dance moves, there was plenty of fun to go around.

But, it wasn’t just the fun. The prayers, time, sweat and tears also played a role.

“It was a really cool year, but what people didn’t see was how much they grew spiritually,” Walker said.

Miller made it clear that he didn’t think it was simply because of their beliefs that they were successful, but it was much more contributing to their walk.

“I believe God has put a bright light on that team, and it’s special,” Miller said.

(Top) Tim Miller and Josh Dobbs, former UT quarterback, pose for a photo.

(Bottom) Tim Miller spends time with members of the UT Football team.

All photos courtesy of Tim Miller

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The Daily Beacon • Thursday, April 5, 2018

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Muslim Student Association dispels myths, builds bridges Annie Tieu

Former News Editor In a post-9/11 America, the Islamic world continues to be scrutinized, and a group of UT students is seeking to dispel misconceptions about Islam through connecting with the UT community.

Abdalla Husain, junior in linguistics and executive board member of the Muslim Student Alliance (MSA), helps create events for Muslim and non-Muslim students as a part of outreach efforts to make MSA a resource for students with questions about the religion.

“A few of our goals are to give Muslim students that are here a place where they can pray together, where they can just hang out, spend time with each other, so they can get familiar with the Muslim community in Knoxville and grow spiritually,” Husain said. “We also try to MSA chapters gather for a group photo during their annual MSA Showdown retreat, hosted by UT MSA collaborate with other groups on campus and try Courtesy of Khaled Nurhssein to get to know other groups.”

“It is kind of weird because as a college stu- things are things you don’t always hear in the Amany Alshibli, senior in chemical engineer- as a Muslim ... I’ve always had to prepare myself ing and vice president of MSA, said she was to answer questions or to hear certain com- dent … It’s confusing for everyone,” Alshibli said. media.”

“It is an added layer of identity crisis, because pleased with the increase in visibility MSA has ments about Islam.”

Husain said that since Islam is not a common According to surveys performed by the Pew (Islam) is such a politicized topic, and people religion in the U.S., some people do not underachieved through their events.

“I was really happy that last year we had Research Center in 2014, about 81 percent of put you in the context of events that have noth- stand that Islam is just a religion in the same interfaith events, or discussion panels, where we adults in Tennessee identify as Christian, and ing to do with you.” sense that Christianity is just a religion.

Alshibli shared that she is still learning about really were just trying to engage in a conversa- only one percent identify as Muslim. Alshibli “Growing up in East Tennessee you inherently tion,” Alshibli said. “And we find that there are and Husain said that this small population of herself and her religion, which can be difficult have at least some understanding of Christianity a lot of people that are really, really interested in Muslims means there is a general lack of knowl- when others put her in a spokesperson position … There’s this influence of Christianity there, for her religion, being visibly Muslim. knowing … About our experiences, about our edge about the religion. present just from the people, from being in this “It becomes where you become the spokes- area,” Husain said. “There’s that understanding “I think most of them are out of ignorance or perspectives. I really appreciate that people are people not knowing, just because the Muslim person for a whole group of people; I’m just a of Christianity, or at least a little bit of knowlgiving us a voice.”

While many recent national events have been population is so small here,” Alshibli said. “It’s college student,” said Alsibli. “I’m still learning, edge, that at least it’s something normal. But difficult for Muslims, Alshibli said their mem- very common for a person to not know a I’m still learning about my faith, I’m still learning because Islam is so new and so rare in America, bers have noticed more support from the cam- Muslim personally, so I definitely see that as about everything.” there’s not yet this understanding that it’s just During Hurricane Harvey, The Islamic a religion. It’s a faith that people practice, and the reason for a lot of the misunderstandings. ... pus community.

“I know last year was rickety because of the There’s just this general lack of knowledge, and Society of Greater Houston (ISGH) opened that’s something that I’m hoping that we can election, but I know there were a lot of groups because of that lack of knowledge, people jump up four of their properties as 24-hour shelters. achieve with MSA in the far future.” that anonymously donated donuts to us for to all these conclusions. They hear these things They also helped with fundraising efforts for the Other hopes that both Alshibli and Husain finals. SGA met with us individually to hear in the media that make them think a certain way Houston area. Using this as an example, Husain have for the future of MSA is further becoming said some of the misconceptions of Muslims an integral part of campus and continuing to colabout how they could best support us,” Alshibli about Muslims.”

Media coverage of Islam is often focused on begin with the lack of coverage of the positive laborate with other student organizations. said. “I think the efforts of people reaching out to support us have far exceeded those that have radical terrorism, and Husain said that the fear- work Muslims do.

“I definitely do see us already moving in the “You don’t see a lot of news coverage of that direction of becoming more a part of the cammongering coverage has created an association been causing misunderstandings.” (volunteer work) … You see a lot of people say- pus conversation and the campus community,” Husain also said that, despite the fact that between the religion and terrorism.

“The worst cause of (ignorance) is fear-mon- ing Muslims are trying to make little Muslim- Alshibli said. “I think that’s partly been because negative feedback is prominent, the majority of the campus community supports their organiza- gering in the media,” Husain said. “People just only communities and teach their extremism of the leadership that’s come before me but also throw out the name ISIS as if every Muslim is and creeping Sharia,” Husain said. “When in been, on the other end, people reaching out to tion.

“It seems that with every person that attacks somehow associated with them. It’s unfortunate fact, the Muslims that are out there serving us, wanting to do collaborative events with us, us, attacks Muslims on campus, there seem to to have that kind of association, and it’s nothing the community and helping the community – wanting to host interfaith panels, collaborate on be 10 or 20 people supporting us,” Husain said. to do with the religion or my experience with they’re not getting shown.” events for the campus community. I’m excited to Understanding begins when others realize see how that will go.”

“The negatives don’t outweigh the positives, in the religion. It’s solely due to the portrayal of Islam is like any other religion and that Muslims Muslims in the media. terms of support.”

Husain said one of his goals is to improve the “And it makes you think that they’re this big are normal people, Husain and Alshibli added.

Husain, who has always been a practicing idea of Muslims as Americans and let people “Islam is just like any religion. It takes a lot know that the two identities are not separate.

Muslim, said he has not known a time when he threat that’s facing our country, that’s facing us. did not feel like he had to defend his religious When in reality, we are just trying to get through to learn about it, but I think knowing a Muslim “Honestly, I see my life as committed to this personally can change that because then you outreach, to going to different groups, to helping beliefs, especially in consideration of the Sept. college and go to work.”

Alshibli echoed this sentiment and said that, realize that,” Alshibli said. “You know, I’m a people understand — both Muslims and people 11 terrorist attacks.

“I had just turned six when 9/11 happened,” as a young adult still transitioning into adult- college student. I stay up way too late because I who aren’t Muslims — to understand that the Husain said. “And it was a realization, relatively hood like other college students, the politiciza- procrastinate on my work. I obviously care and identify of Muslim and the identity of American recently, that I had never known a life without tion of Islam is hard when trying to discover her love about my family and my friends … I have are not mutually exclusive, that the two are very aspirations in my professional life. All of those compatible.” having to be a little defensive about my identity sense of self.