Muslims in Los Angeles
Shades of “Arabian Nights” and the times of Urban II! How could Blandford have missed the ship of the desert--the lumbering camel when she mentioned the slender greyhounds and the scuttling crabs. How wistful and satisfying to look through the patronizing perspective of the old British raj.
Islam does not need a whiff of a distant desert to give it life. Obviously, Blandford is new to Southern California. American Muslims are not anachronistic fixtures. I would like to assure her that American Muslims are alive, well and vital despite the effort to place them in distant times and distant climes.
SHAMIM IBRAHIM
Lomita
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