"When I arrived in America, I experienced serious culture shock. For someone with a religious upbringing, the 1960s were an extremely difficult time. Even though religion was a big part of the civil rights and peace movements, in my college religion was treated as irrelevant, hopelessly stodgy, and behind the times."
- Feisal Abdul RaufImagine entering a room with all the furniture arranged differently, or entering a foreign country where everything feels strange and unfamiliar. When Feisal Abdul Rauf first arrived in America from Egypt in the 1960s, he went through this. Scholar and imam Feisal Abdul Rauf was raised in a society …