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Anatomy of every Muslim fundraising banquet:
-"Asalam alaykum"
"Wa alaykum asalam"
"I can't hear you"
"WA ALAYKUM ASALAAAM"
-45 min behind schedule
-Technical difficulties
-12 corny marriage jokes
-Random guy running for office
The thing about midwestern polite bitchiness is that I, too, am fluent in this lingo and can interpret exactly what it means - like the woman who walks up to my rental car in this quaint Michigan subdivision to ask “Do you live here?”
My father in Cairo, 1964. Interestingly despite following his every move, in 1958 an FBI informant called him, “a man of high moral character who neither smokes nor drinks.” Apparently, he was seldom late for an appointment. Malcolm X, to this day, remains an enigma.