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THIS WEEK ON THE VIKING YOUTH POWER HOUR...
Ibrahim for Citizen
This week the Vikings record their show while enjoying a wonderful meal at Cafe Gulistan. Cafe Gulistan is a mediterranean restaurant in Michigan owned by Ibrahim Parlak. Ibrahim is as kind, intelligent, humble and funny as a person could be. He's a succesful restauranteur, a husband and father, the kind of guy you want in your life, as your neighbor, and your friend. Ibrahim is a model immigrant and, more than that, a model human being who loves his Freedom and loves what the United States is meant to be. Ibrahim is also the subject of continued harrasment, imprisonment, and the blatantly illegal and slanderous attacks of the Department of Homeland Security and INS.
But where other immigrants struggles with a rogue government go silenced and unheard, Ibrahim was fortunate, he had a community; a town full of people who know him, love him, and will stop at nothing to assure his Freedom, which he has fought so hard to attain, remains intact.
And while his friends, family, and Congressmen work tirelessly to help him our government has put equal amounts of energy into disrupting this gentle man's life, going so far as to kidnap his brother in a last ditch effort to express their flaccid control.
We are proud to know Ibrahim Parlak and honored that we are able to participate in his pusuit of life, according to his own design, in a country designed to insure that right.
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