Dr sabeel ahmed qureshi biography
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By Alex Ortiz
It didn’t take long for Dr. Sabeel Ahmed to feel unwelcome when he immigrated to the United States from India at 17. During his first gym class, students spat on him because he is Muslim.
Dr sabeel ahmed qureshi biography
He was called into the principal’s office to tell who did it, but when asked if they should be punished, he said ‘No.’
Ahmed made it through those tough times, and made it to medical school, eventually settling in Skokie as a family doctor.
Like so many Americans, his life changed on 9/11 as the need to educate people about the true nature of Islam became necessary, as it once was in that gym class.
That day in 2001, Ahmed was working at a hospital when some of his colleagues asked him about what was happening.
Ahmed realized then the news was not the best educational source about Islam, and there would be a backlash. And he knew the attacks only confirmed many Americans’ suspicions of Muslims. He said then as he says now: “You know there are good and bad in the followers of a