Maybe the solution is to adopt it:
Emily Nordling has never met a Muslim, at least not to her knowledge. But this spring, Ms. Nordling, a 19-year-old student from Fort Thomas, Ky., gave herself a new middle name on Facebook.com, mimicking her boyfriend and shocking her father.
“Emily Hussein Nordling,” her entry now reads.
With her decision, she joined a growing band of supporters of Senator Barack Obama, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, who are expressing solidarity with him by informally adopting his middle name.
The result is a group of unlikely-sounding Husseins: Jewish and Catholic, Hispanic and Asian and Italian-American, from Jaime Hussein Alvarez of Washington, D.C., to Kelly Hussein Crowley of Norman, Okla., to Sarah Beth Hussein Frumkin of Chicago.
Yep, inspired by the movies Sparticus and In & Out. The former climaxes with everyone standing up, one by one and then en masse, to claim they are the persecuted slave named Sparticus. The latter does the same with "I'm gay."
Quite moving in all three forms, although this new real-world version is, undoubtedly, the funniest.
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This is a hoot.
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