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Mourning Rima

By Callimachus | Related entries in In The News, The War On Terrorism

And her father. Two of Islamist terrorism’s most recent martyrs remembered at Roger L. Simon.

At that moment it struck me that in all the years I knew Malek, Rima and their older brother Tarik, I never really thought about their family’s obvious ethnic or religious background. I just remember Malek loved Led Zeppelin. Tarik worked the counter at Maria’s Italian Kitchen while I delivered pizza. And Rima was cooler than most of the girls her age and had a most brilliant smile. She even played polo! Who plays polo? At the time, and in retrospect, the Akkads were to Islam what many more of us at Brentwood School were to Judaism, highly secular, typical Americans. And, to say the least, we all got along.

If you have to scratch your head to remember what’s good and right about America, start with that.


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