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I Am Grateful To My Father For Sending Me To School, And That We Moved From Somalia To Kenya, Where I Learned English.

After The Horrific Massacre Wednesday At The French Weekly Satirical Magazine Charlie Hebdo, Perhaps The West Will Finally Put Away Its Legion Of Useless Tropes Trying To Deny The Relationship Between Violence And Radical Islam.

There Is One Islam, Unreformed, But Three Sets Of Muslims. Medina, Mecca, And. Dissidents, Reformers, Whatever You Want To Call Them. The First Group Are The Extremists And Fundamentalists, The Second The Great Mass Of Muslims Who Just Want To Live Their Lives In Peace, And The Third Are Reformers.

Islam Was Like A Mental Cage. At First, When You Open The Door, The Caged Bird Stays Inside: It Is Frightened. It Has Internalized Its Imprisonment. It Takes Time For Bird To Escape, Even After Someone Has Opened The Doors To Its Cage.

They Decided To Let Immigrants In And I Am An Immigrant. They Gave Us A Chance To Participate In This Country's Life And I Took It.