<b>A young Muslim leader's memoir of his struggles to forge an American Muslim identity</b><br><br>Haroon Moghul was thrust into the spotlight after 9/11 becoming an undergraduate leader at New York University's Islamic Center forced into appearances everywhere: on TV before interfaith audiences in print. Moghul was becoming a prominent voice for American Muslims even as he struggled with his relationship to Islam. In high school he was barely a believer and entirely convinced he was going to hell. He sometimes drank. He didn't pray regularly. All he wanted was a girlfriend.<br><br>But as he discovered it wasn't so easy to leave religion behind. To be true to himself he needed to forge a unique American Muslim identity that reflected his beliefs and personality. <i>How to Be a Muslim</i> reveals a young man coping with the crushing pressure of a world that fears Muslims struggling with his faith and searching for intellectual forebears and suffering the onset of bipolar disorder. This is the story of the second-generation immigrant of what it's like to lose yourself between cultures and how to pick up the pieces.