A robust true story in regards to a Muslim doctor’s services to small-town America and the wish of overcoming our country’s climate of hostility and fear.

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In 2013, Ayaz Virji still left an appropriate job at an East Coast medical center and moved to a town of just one 1,400 in Minnesota, feeling called to handle the shortage of doctors in rural America. However in 2016, this decision was tested when the reliably blue, working-class state swung for Donald Trump..READING MORE about Like Thy Neighbor: A Muslim Doctor’s Struggle for Home in Rural America Virji watched in horror seeing that his kids faced anti-Muslim remarks in school and some of his most loyal patients started questioning whether he belonged locally.

Virji wanted out. But in 2017, just like he was lining up a job in Dubai, an area pastor invited him to speak at her cathedral and address misconceptions in what Muslims practice and believe. That invitation is continuing to grow right into a well-attended lecture series which has changed hearts and thoughts across the state, while offering Virji a new vocation that he never would have expected.

In Like Thy Neighbor, Virji relates this tale within a gripping, unforgettable narrative that presents the human consequences of our poisonous politics, the power of faith and personal conviction, as well as the potential for a renewal of understanding in America’s heartland.