Zohra Arastu migrated to the United States from India with her husband, a young surgeon, in 1976.
In addition to being an artist and a mother, she teaches American children how to read translations of the Quran properly. But recently, she has grown more concerned that U.S. presidential candidates are playing the race card against Muslims, preying on “Islamophobia” to gain votes.
“How do we make them stop?” she asked during a forum to promote cross-religious understanding at the Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary in Columbia on Monday night. “They are undoing all that we are trying to do here.”
Read it all from The State newspaper in Columbia.
Arastu teachers American children how to read the Quran properly!
I’d just love to hear her “proper” translations of Suras 9:23, which tells Muslin to kill infidels, and 4:97, which states in part, “..unbelievers…
kill them wherever you find them”.
The charge that critics are “playing the race card” is nonsense. So also is claiming “This violence is not coming from Muslims.” The violence is coming from a variety of ethnicities and is based upon an interpretation of Islam which is held by hundreds of millions of people worldwide. Jihadis claim to be defending Islam when they kill, and they base their actions on passages in the same Qur’an which Arastu teaches. As the president of Egypt has recently said, this jihadi interpretation must be suppressed everywhere, and that job belongs to Muslims. Blaming people outside Islam avoids the problem.