She confessed that she too had grown tired of hating, he said. In a conversation with his mother, Ebrahim expressed how he didn’t want to hate anymore, that he no longer wanted to separate himself from kind people. And that's when I really had to start challenging myself in what I believed and how I perceived people.” it was like slapping myself in the face realizing that I was doing to this kid exactly what had been done to me a thousand times, and I didn't want to ever make anybody feel the way I had been made to feel.
“The first time I made a gay friend I was not nice to this person. "So there were a lot of mixed signals about what's right and what's wrong, and when is violence OK, and when is it not.”Īfter moving several times, changing his name and settling into a new life no longer under the influential reach of his father, Ebrahim became aware of how sheltered he had been and began to question the ideas he was taught.
“I bought my first Game Boy with a $100 bill that someone handed me because of what my father did," he said. For Ebrahim, that meant growing up being taught to hate, bullied by his peers for the crimes his father committed and simultaneously revered by the insular community his father was a part of. — - Zak Ebrahim’s father is notorious for all the wrong reasons.Ĭurrently serving a life sentence as a convicted terrorist for conspiracy in the 1993 World Trade Center bombings, El Sayyid Nosair was imprisoned when his son was just in grade school.
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