He said, ‘My name is not Mohammad. I’m in America and my name is Harry.’

His mother slapped him and said angrily: ‘Aren’t you ashamed of trying to dishonor your parents, your heritage, your religion?’ Then she called his father and he also slapped him.

The next day when the teacher saw him with his face red and asked what happened, Mohammad said, ‘Madam, four hours after I became American, I was attacked by two Arabs’.