Pakistani Americans say to us ‘you guys are too liberal.' “We’re the moderate Muslims who aren’t crazy, we’re not the ones who are going to put our wives in a burqa. We always see ourselves as more liberal, less fanatical,” said Fariba Nawa, an Afghan-American writer who went to high school in Union City, near Fremont. Many regard themselves as well-integrated and at relative ease with their Islamic and Western identities, even as many conceal their sexual identity. Most of America’s estimated 300,000-500,000 Afghan diaspora live in a part of Fremont, California, known as "Little Kabul" - or in New York City and Virginia. history, acknowledging that “there are LGBTQ people in every community, including our own.” “This is a reminder that violence against marginalized communities remains a very real threat in this country,” the Afghan-American Conference said in response to the worst mass shooting in U.S.
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