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“There are over 1.6 billion Muslims alive in the world as of 2010”, according to senior editor lipka. The author from the book Burqas, Baseball, and Apple Pie tries to tell the readers that there are many different kinds of Muslims. Just as there are many different types of denominations within the Christian society. Globally there are Muslims that are more conservative like the Orthodox Muslims, there are the more secular Muslims, and even a small percentage of extremist Muslims. That everybody pictures right away when they think of Muslims. Although terrorists are out there. Muslims are regular human beings like you and me. The author tries to explain that not every Muslim is terrorist and a majority of them out there don’t want to go out and kill for the Quran. …show more content…
The title of the book is Burqas, Baseball, and Apple Pie. Some of the main characters are Ranya Tabari, her husband and her children Leia and Taymor, and her faith group. She goes on writing about her life experiences, and her struggles trying to find herself. She thought about things like what does it mean to be a Muslim. Should I leave the Muslim faith and give my children the American life. She also went through the struggles of having to explain to her children about Muslim extremists. Ranya got tired of hearing that no one is stepping up for the Muslim community. So she took the stand for all Muslim communities and started going to interviews. To let people find out more about her
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