Shaykh Uthman
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Mm-hmm.
But I also had to worry about if another gang is going to rush down the hallway with 30 guys and bats and smash my head in during lunch.
So it's a rough life.
And Southern California, especially in the 80s and 90s, was really rough.
If you look at the crime rate, my middle school, so this is 6th, 7th, 8th, had a drive-by.
Wow.
During school, at lunch.
Wilson Middle School, San Diego, California, right?
We were eating lunch.
Yeah.
I mean, we didn't really have a we just had a lunch area and yeah, they shot up the lunch area, you know, and it was one gang trying to give back another gang.
But kids got hit that had nothing to do with it.
Wow.
So
It was rough.
I mean, that time was very rough.
I grew up with, you know, we had some very close friends.
I mean, none of them were Muslim.
I didn't grow up around Muslims.
I didn't grow up going to a mosque.