Noora Ashtari

As I heard the non-Muslim presenter praise Malala, I came to fully appreciate how it affects children to have role models that look like them. I often wonder how things have changed for American Muslim kids who have grown up only knowing a world in which people shouting Allahu Akbar have terrorized and killed people in their country, where they are a religious minority.

Imam Mohamed Magid, Shaykh Mokhtar Maghraoui & Shaykh Muhammad Ninowy

Although we cannot control the judgments others may make of us based solely on our appearance, we can try to control the way we perceive and judge others. Ultimately our goal is to not focus on the things we see with our eyes, but to focus on the realities that we perceive with our hearts.