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Thursday, December 21, 2006

Mothers question, embrace their faiths

The authors of "The Faith Club"

AFTER 9/11, New Yorker Ranya Idliby stopped calling her sons by their Muslim names in public. Instead, she'd use their nicknames, Ty and Timmy. She asked her grandmother not to speak Arabic outside the home. She and her husband chose not to tell their children about the terrorist attacks.
But when her daughter came home from school and asked whether their family celebrated Hanukkah or Christmas, all that changed.(To read the rest of this story, click here.)

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