"Jim L'Hommedieu (Lama)" wrote: > > I still have the fears of an Indian woman I met at a party. She's over here > on a visa while her husband learned American techniques for hand surgery and > she was worried about being a foreigner among the newly militaristic > Americans. I can only imagine what visiting Musilims must feel like in NYC. > <shudder>
Just in New York City? One of the things I like so much about this city is that people from every culture and religion and race and sexual orientation live and work closely together, usually peacefully, even now. It's not a tension- or racism-free place by any means, but I think a Muslim would be safer here than in many other smaller places in the U.S. where there's not such a mix of people and it could more easily become the majority white people versus a few "others". Or so I imagine anyway. Debra Shea, NYC "hey, no dissing my city" advocate
