After 9/11, smugness and celebration were the kinds of attitudes I would get from the Muslim side of my life. Meanwhile on the kafir side, the polar opposite was happening. The Dean of my faculty called me down to his office to ask me if I had dealt with any backlash. Muslims had just killed thousands of Americans, and his first concern was that no one was making me feel uncomfortable. Oh Canada! If you only knew what you were dealing with and how strange your concern seemed to me. No, no one had made me feel uncomfortable. In fact, they were going out of their way to make sure that I was
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