Bracing After the Embrace

Sharbari Z. Ahmed
4 min readMar 26, 2019

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In the wake of the worst terrorist attack in New Zealand history Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern showed us how a leader is supposed to behave. In a world where powerful men and women place a low premium on compassion, and spend exorbitant time, money and energy to send a clarion call out to the hateful masses to hurt others, Ms Ardern is expending just as much energy to subvert them.

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Sharbari Z. Ahmed

I’m a scattalogical, Prosecco swilling Muslim American trying to tell good stories. Long suffering writer, eternal optimist.