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A Thousand Muslims and a Jew
Truth is often stranger than fiction
At last count, there were 8.1 billion people on planet Earth. The odds of any two people meeting, I believe, is something like 8.1 billion to one. And the odds of any two of those 8.1 billion people deciding to collaborate on a complicated, culture-changing project — especially if one of them is an Australian Muslim born in Pakistan and the other is an American Jew born in New York — is in the slim-to none-zone.
But that’s exactly what happened to me six years ago – a collaboration that took seven years to manifest, seven being a classic span of years noted 700 times in the Bible and God knows how many times in the Quran.
Like any story, the one I am about to tell has a very juicy back story — the seemingly invisible, below-the-surface prelude to what I would only later discover to be one of the most fascinating collaborations of my life.
Ready? Here goes:
Seven years ago, Fazeel Arain, the Co-Founder and Principal of Al Siraat College, a K-12 Australian School in the Islamic tradition, located on the outskirts of Melbourne, found his way to my Heart of Innovation…
