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Different but united: the palpable positivity of 24-hours-a-day bridge-builder Wasi Mohamed S2EP10
When Wasi Mohamed led the Muslim community in an international fundraising effort that raised a quarter of a million dollars for the families of those killed in the attack on the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the world got to know the man many have called “a 24-hours-a-day bridge-builder.”
Born and raised in an Indian-Muslim family in central Pennsylvania, Wasi recalls his childhood home being pelted with mustard packets and paint bombs, and dynamite exploding their mailbox.
“It changes who you are at a very young age,” he says.
But the change it spurred in Wasi was to…
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