Through Tamika‟s dialogue with them and personal observations of their daily living, Tamika journeys into the road less travelled by most Americans, one which is foreign albeit close to home. However, her close and personal encounter with the two Muslims transforms her appreciation of the religion. Raised in a predominantly Christian society, Tamika develops a great mistrust of Islam and Muslims. In Umm Zakiyyah‟s If I Should Speak (2000), the protagonist, African American Christian Tamika Douglass experiences travelling down the road not taken when she befriends her two minority Muslim American college flatmates, Dee Durrah and Aminah.
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