I have no desire to set off fireworks, jump into a car and yell out the window while waving fists and flags. If I were in New York City, I would light a candle at the memorial and keep vigil. In San Francisco, I pray in a room lit only by a streetlamp, filled with sadness for those who have died in America, Pakistan, Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere, and apprehension at the terrorism-related deaths to come. Our work as Americans and Muslims is far from done.
Ayesha Mattu
Ayesha Mattu is a human rights consultant, writer, and blogger at Rickshaw Diaries. She is the co-editor of the upcoming anthology, Love, InshAllah: The Secret Love Lives of American Muslim Women (Soft Skull Press, February 2012).
