A pattern developed of weekend visits between Columbus and Gahanna, in central Ohio. As in most divorces, the children became the human "ropes" in a tug-of-war, torn between parents. The divorce, which was finalized in America, was painful. Their assumptions about marriage clearly clashed. As the youngest child in his family, he had earned everything he owned and was steeped in Islamic culture.
By the time she was 20, she had attended the Sorbonne in Paris, and had traveled the world. Our mother was a single child, raised in Stockholm and educated all over Europe. The marriage was doomed from the beginning, a clash of cultures. After falling in love, getting married, and having their first two sons, Ergun and Erdem, in Stockholm, Father and Mother moved to America, the land of opportunity. Our father, Acar, met Mother in Sweden, where he was attending university. Reprinted with permission from from "Unveiling Islam" by Ergun Mehmet Caner and Emir Fethi Caner, copyright 2002 by Kregel Publications.
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