Bet You Didn’t Know This!

Sometimes it seems like the only way to get in the media as a Muslim is to blow something up! Or get driven out of your homes by the people running your country. I guess if you live in a Muslim majority nation, most everybody in the news would be Muslim. But where I live, you’ve really got to do something to get noticed.

I’d like to wave a flag for a couple of Muslims who did something extraordinary, something that will directly and positively affect our lives, and do so in the next weeks and months.

Ugur Sahin and Ozlem Tureci have been married since 2002. They are both children of Turkish immigrants to Germany. Together they built and sold a billion dollar medical research company. Their latest accomplishment is to be the first to develop an FDA-approved vaccine for COVID 19.

They’re the brains behind the Pfizer vaccine now being rolled out across the US and elsewhere.

When the intrepid health care worker swabs your arm in the coming days, as she raises then plunges the needle, will you join me in thanking our Father for this Muslim couple and their contribution to the purposes of God?

To be honest, I could not document with certainty that Sahin and Tuereci are Muslim. Several articles said so, sans sources. However, since over 95% of Turks practice some form of Islam, it’s a pretty safe bet.

Because I’m feeling an extra measure of Christmas feistiness right now, let me pose this question: Will some people avoid the vaccine because it was developed by Muslims? I don’t know, but I’m tempted to toss that little factoid into conversation just to see what happens! Of course, you’re more spiritual than me and would never do that! 

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