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Love thy neighbor : a Muslim doctor's struggle for home in rural America

Virji, Ayaz (author.). Eisenstock, Alan (author.).

Summary: A powerful true story about a Muslim doctor's service to small-town America and the hope of overcoming our country's climate of hostility and fear. In 2013, Ayaz Virji left a comfortable job at an East Coast hospital and moved to a town of 1,400 in Minnesota, feeling called to address the shortage of doctors in rural America. But in 2016, this decision was tested when the reliably blue, working-class county swung for Donald Trump. Virji watched in horror as his children faced anti-Muslim remarks at school and some of his most loyal patients began questioning whether he belonged in the community. Virji wanted out. But in 2017, just as he was lining up a job in Dubai, a local pastor invited him to speak at her church and address misconceptions about what Muslims practice and believe. That invitation has grown into a well-attended lecture series that has changed hearts and minds across the state, while giving Virji a new vocation that he never would have expected. In Love Thy Neighbor, Virji relates this story in a gripping, unforgettable narrative that shows the human consequences of our toxic politics, the power of faith and personal conviction, and the potential for a renewal of understanding in America's heartland.

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  • ISBN: 0525577203
  • ISBN: 9780525577201
  • Physical Description: 208 pages ; 22 cm
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  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Convergent, [2019]

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note: Tough questions -- Where am I? -- Dignified medicine -- Jihad -- Fallout -- Logic and sincerity -- Faith is what you do -- "Islam supports terrorism" -- Her choice, not mine -- Sharia law -- Breathe -- What will it take?
Subject: United States Politics and government 21st century
Christianity and other religions Islam
Islam Relations Christianity United States
Muslims United States Biography
Physicians United States Biography
Muslim physicians United States Biography
Virji, Ayaz
Genre: Autobiographies.

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  • 16 of 16 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Iredell County Public Library.

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