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Danya Tazyeen

Danya Tazyeen

Student, Class of 2016

Augustana College

Danya Tazyeen was a member of Augustana College’s class of 2016 in Rock Island, Illinois. Born in Pakistan and raised in the United States, she contributed this reflection as a participant in Augustana’s Interfaith Understanding work.

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Reflection

Danya Tazyeen

Danya Tazyeen

No. 40 · Fall 2014

Tazyeen, a Pakistani-American Muslim student at Augustana College, reads Qur’an 49:13 — that God made us into peoples and tribes “that you may know one another” — as a charge to break down fear with open dialogue and to see one another as flawed and relatable fellow human beings.