Opinion: Actor and comedian Ali Hassan makes my heart sing.
Actor and comedian Ali Hassan makes my heart sing. He is the embodiment of Canadian multiculturalism, meaning that he knows everyone, gets along with everyone and doesn’t nail down his identity as precisely as today’s icy religionists might wish.we discover that he doesn’t care for the limitations placed on him by “good Muslims.” He likes bacon. He likes pork in all its manifestations: pulled, Ribfest, chops, sandwiches, tourtière, pepperoni, muffins, carrot cakes, whatever.
At this moment there is a great spillage of Canadian memoirs, a bit of a problem since trauma is not automatically interesting. The writing is all. In the wintertime, like the rest of us, he turns “a uniform shade of grey.” He grew up believing he was white, maybe off-white, because, you know, Canada.
And then Hassan writes something that truly endears him to me. He has what he calls “Islamic block,” similar to writer’s block.
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