Tutored a Muslim Woman Last Week and Yesterday

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3. Here is a story I posted here, twelve years ago:

I used to work in Houston's oil patch. There were two women I worked with from Iran. I remember going to lunch with them in a group fairly regularly. The mall was a good seven blocks away. Invariably, these women would stop along the way to give alms to the homeless. Not just sometimes. Every time. They would smile at them, make eye contact, and hold their hand when they gave them some money.

Whenever I saw them do this, I thought to myself: This is the real spirit of Islam. It always put a knot in my throat.

And it still does today.