Excerpt:
Is it difficult to be as awesome as you are?
How do you represent your constituency so gallantly?
Reading through Patt Morrison's softball interview of Salam al-Marayati in this weekend's Los Angeles Times, one almost expects to see these questions. Morrison describes the job of al-Marayati, the executive director of the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC), as:
"a balancing act that engages local and international politics, religion and culture, internal and civic and public relations, all of it performed on a tightrope that quivers after every terrorist attack and attempted attack by Muslims."