I was stunned. Her timing was terrible! I said, "Lizzy, the US is beginning to bomb Afghanistan!"
Sally Mahé, URI Co-Director of Global Programs and Organizational Development, shares a personal story about her response to her daughter's decision to convert from Christianity to Islam.
There was Lizzy, covered from head to toe in her prayer garments, kneeling on the floor...The reality shot through me...She had taken a path that I felt would separate her from me.
I had a choice in that split second. Without thinking, I bent over, and I kissed her on the forehead.
Sally Mahe's talk on Islamophobia at the United Muslims of America annual dinner on April 17, 2011 (her personal story begins at time 6:15)
