[Sudan Tribune] Brian Adeba - Coming from a country where government media constantly refer to Israel as "the enemy Israel" in Arabic, Taraji Mustafa was raised on a daily diet of Jew and Israel bashing in Sudanese media, school textbooks and government policy. So last fall, when the Hamilton, Ont.-based immigrant formed the Sudanese-Israeli Friendship Association, she caused a lot of angst in the Arab world. Mustafa says the turning point for her came when she interacted with Jews and discovered all she had been taught in Sudan was not true. To cap it all off, one of her teachers was Jewish, as was her daughter's teacher at school, and her family doctor. "They are people just like us," she says.
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