Description

Unless you are Muslim or have spent a significant amount of time with Muslims, you probably have no idea what it’s really like to grow up as a Muslim in the United States. Well, Christina’s guest today knows all about it. Rajeh Saadeh is a first-generation Palestinian American, Muslim American attorney in Somerville, New Jersey. Rajeh shares his personal experience growing up in New Jersey as first generation Palestinian and Muslim American. Rajeh provides insight to his religious practices and beliefs and dispels many of the stereotypes about Muslims. 

In this episode, we talk about…

• Growing up in Linden, New Jersey with Muslims and other religions and cultures
• Diving into the history of the religion of Islam and the Quran
• How Jesus is an important figure in Islam
• Islam and other religions as they relate to stereotypes about terrorism
• How September 11th changed life for Muslim Americans forever
• Blending into the community as a first-generation immigrant
• The historical traditions relating to men and women in Islam
• What it really looks like to attend sermon at a mosque
• Practicing prayer as a Muslim, inside and outside the United States
• Breaking down the significance of the pilgrimage to Mecca
• Marrying into Islam from another religion
  
• Observing Ramadan and the other Muslim holidays

Links to resources:

A Woman is No Man

The Autobiography of Malcolm X

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