Sufian Zhemetov

We kind of knew each other already, so he approached me again.

And he said, I didn't deliver the whole message.

I said, okay, what's the rest of it?

He said, since Jesus is coming, you want to get rid of everything named after devil and hell.

I said, actually I have this vacuum cleaner called Dirt Devil.

He said, I was sent to you on purpose.

I liked him, and I decided to confess, and I said, actually, I'm a Muslim.

And I never could understand why Americans named things after devil or hell, like hell burgers, or hell of a cheese, or devil's eggs.

I said, Muslims would never do that.

And that's when he amazed me.

He said, that's because Muslims are better believers.

And he left me speechless and he walked away.

And I thought, how this can even be?

This man who thinks he speaks to Jesus, he's so tolerant that he could say that just to make me feel good.

And while I was leaving DSW with my new rounded-toe American shoes,

I knew two things for sure.

One, I knew that I was going to fit in here among these wonderful and tolerant people.

And two, I was going to get rid of my vacuum cleaner.