It is truly amazing when people stick to their goals and beliefs when confronted by violence and adversity. I hope this is a quality that I embody in the future. This article is inspiring about a female Muslim doctor who stuck to her ideals of aiding her community even though she was held at gun-point and lost some of her community members in the ensuing violence and confusion. The perpetrators of the violence were religious extremists.
Here is the link to the NY Times article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/08/world/africa/08somalia.html?_r=2&pagewanted=all
Shaykh Faraz Rabbani said something really clever recently. He said that Ihsanists use to lead the Ummah but now we are stuck with Islamists. This is such a clever play on words!
