A shining example
Al-Risala (English), June 1985, p. 8
By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
Maulana Wahiduddin Khan is named as the default author of the periodical; a piece that carries another writer’s byline is credited to that writer.
A shining example
1985 6 June 8 A shining example (138) Just five years ago a thirteen year-old girl fled her native Vietnam on a raft. One of the refugee Vietnamese “boat-people”, she spent three days drifting at sea before being picked up and taken to Hong Kong. After two weeks in a refugee camp, she was transported to England. She did not know a world of English, but immediately started working hard to learn the language. She entered Eastley Comprehensive School in Hampshire, England and now, at the age of eighteen, Mai Lee has been granted entry to St. Hugh’s College, Oxford University, to study physics. One of her teachers in Eastley said that Mai had been such a model student it had been a joy to teach her. “She is a shining example to all,” he said.
(BBC News, January 12, 1985, and “Outlook”, January 16, 1985)
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