Word: sana
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...Sana believes she has earned the right to think of herself as a citizen of the world--she has been to the U.S. and has an expansive, tolerant outlook on global affairs. But it has been sorely tested this year. She comes from a line of Punjabi soldiers (her mother is the daughter of a famous army general, her father an economist), and she inherited the dark, piercing eyes of a hunter, and a stoic determination she would need in the months after Sept. 11, when she felt caught between Islam and America, the two worlds she loves. Rising Islamic...
...after Sept. 11, Sana wanted to wear something special--something defiant--to school. So she pulled on a T shirt that said SEEDS OF PEACE. An essay she had written in the spring of 2001 about the plight of Lahore's street kids had won her a trip in August to a Maine camp sponsored by a New York group called Seeds of Peace, which brings together young people from war-torn regions around the world...
...Before going to camp, I was scared. I didn't want to associate with Jews and Hindus," recalls Sana. "But we all became good friends." Swimming in the lake and talking around the campfire late at night, they found that the anger they had brought with them from the war zones seemed to melt away. When she returned home, not many of her classmates sympathized with her change of heart. In Pakistan, Jews and Hindus were supposed to be the enemy. On Sept. 12, it was even worse: Sana still believed in peace, but few others in her school...
...elite, look upon the U.S. as a second home, a place where relatives routinely find success. These are kids who should love America but don't. After the towers fell, their loyalties were firmly with Osama bin Laden. "There were girls in my class who loved him," says Sana. "We all thought Osama was a champion of downtrodden Muslims...
...girls passed around magazines with bin Laden photographs. Some swooned over his "soulful" eyes. They saw him as a man who had walked away from an air-conditioned palace to live in a cave in Afghanistan and avenge the wrongs committed against Muslims. "He was our Robin Hood," says Sana. "Some of my friends defended bin Laden because they thought he carried out the bombings, while others defended him because they thought the U.S. was accusing him unjustly." Sana belonged to the latter camp...