Opinion – National media distorts image of Muslims: Shamsa Mangalji

Issue date: 1/29/10

I am a Muslim who takes my true, Islamic values to heart. To me, Islam means everything from singing “Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes” with nursery school students in East Africa to brightening people’s day with a smile and an impromptu dance-party study break. It means reusing my water bottle and sprinting like a maniac around the house, turning off every single light before I head out. It means striving to get an A in my statistics class, no matter how many weeks of sleep I have to sacrifice to do so.

And it means showing the world a wildly different perspective of Islam than the one portrayed in the media

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