How to be a Muslim: an American story

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Haroon Moghul was first thrust into the spotlight after 9/11, as an undergraduate leader at New York University's Islamic Center. Suddenly, he was making appearances everywhere: on TV, talking to interfaith audiences, combating Islamophobia in print. He was becoming a prominent voice for American Muslims. Privately, Moghul had a complicated relationship with Islam. In high school he was barely a believer and entirely convinced he was going to hell. He sometimes drank. He didn't pray regularly. All he wanted was a girlfriend. But as Haroon discovered, it wasn't so easy to leave religion behind. To be true to himself, he needed to forge a unique American Muslim identity that reflected his own beliefs and personality. How to Be a Muslim is the story of a young man coping with the crushing pressure of a world that shuns and fears Muslims, struggling with his faith and searching for intellectual forebears, and suffering the onset of bipolar disorder. This is the story of the second-generation immigrant, of what it's like to lose yourself between cultures, and how to pick up the pieces.;You go to sleep, and you wake up dead -- How the hell the apple fell -- Linda was a cheerleader -- Judge none choose one -- Catholic girls -- Hi, I am not a Christian -- Which of these two Land Cruisers will you deny? -- And Shams is the sun -- "Are you there, Muhammad? It's me, God." -- A planet called Medina -- The falafel philosophy -- You think you need to get married -- Between the Dome of the Rock and a hard place -- Wake me up when September ends -- Make it look like you're working -- The gravedigger said -- The late, great Mosque of Córdoba -- How to be an idiot -- The bigamist -- Emirate state of mind -- Jet engine oven -- Matthew and son -- Who shot the Shatri -- Gazi Husrev begging the question -- Muslim prefers Virgin.