"It may seem like my upbringing was quite secular and liberal. I certainly had the impression that my parents were pretty easy-going – apart from the warnings that a Muslim boyfriend or husband would be unacceptable. If this did not shock me in my youth it was because the sentiment was so widespread as to seem normal. Some of my closest friends were Muslim and they also knew that romantic liaisons outside the faith were forbidden. I should have guessed that if my parents could make such a vehement theoretical distinction they were in no way as open-minded as they purported to be. Then again, they chose to educate their daughters at avowedly Christian institutions, so maybe they were tolerant – in the contradictory and prejudiced way that many of us are." asialiteraryreview/web/article/en/191
Posted on: Mon, 08 Jul 2013 16:34:51 +0000
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