#Notinmyname. Hadia Tirmizi, the mother of a student profiled in my book Faith Ed., posted that Twitter hashtag on her Facebook page last week in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks in Paris. She is Muslim, lives in Wellesley, a Boston suburb, and knows the backlash that can follow when terrorists are identified as Muslims. The same week she posted her statement against the terrorists, she also posted photos of her family celebrating her youngest son's tenth birthday and photos of her and her husband, both physicians, on a vacation to Paris in a past year. Her heart, like mine, like yours, ached for the victims of the bombings and shootings in Paris and in Lebanon. But she and her family,...
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