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...dining halls. Many female students attend class wearing headscarves that cover everything but their eyes. This fall, when the university's administrators tried to introduce a program in musicology and performing arts, the campus erupted in protest. "Pakistan is an Islamic country, and our institutions must reflect that," says Umair Idrees, a master's degree student and secretary-general of Islami Jamiat-e-Talaba (I.J.T.), the biggest student group on campus. "The formation of these departments is an attack on Islam and a betrayal of Pakistan. They should not be part of the university curriculum...
...Umair Choudhry, 10, steps off a yellow school bus in Chicago wearing a helmet, mittens and a mouth guard. He's dressed for protection--not from the elements or schoolyard bullies but from himself. He has bitten his arms in the past and scarred his scalp by tearing out his hair. In his native Pakistan, his relatives think he is possessed by demons. "They said an evil spirit was making him hurt himself," says his mother Farah Choudhry. In the U.S., his affliction is known as autism...
Should they account for Umair's? With her husband and two sons (the older is Ahsan, 15), Farah Choudhry sought medical treatment for Umair in the U.S. on two previous trips. Last year she left her husband, country and life of financial security in Karachi for the modest two-bedroom apartment in Chicago that she shares with her sons. "I couldn't take it anymore," she says. "My close friends would say, 'The mad boy is coming' and hide their children so that his shadow would not come to their children." To appease her relatives, she dragged Umair to religious...
...This is a new legal argument that has yet to be tested in the courts," says Arlene Kanter, a professor at Syracuse University College of Law. She adds that De Santiago's case will be the first to make the argument before the board of immigration appeals. Of course, Umair has no understanding of the legal maneuvers that will determine his future. It is a symptom of his illness that he grows profoundly attached to routine. He knows to wait for the bus at 7:40 a.m. and to return home at 3:45 p.m. Some Saturdays, he picks...
...Canaday basement room] is certainly sufficient for our daily needs, but it doesn't allow for any expansion beyond the current state of the group," says Umair A. Qadeer '98, a former secretary of the Islamic Society...