Religious mission outranks conventional American measures of success for this young man

Evidence

His wife could work too, he said, so they could save their money together. That way he could afford to take a cut in pay to devote his life to Islam through working with an American Muslim organization. Da’wa, he told me, is more important to him than traditional American definitions of success. — Moustafa Bayoumi, How Does It Feel to Be a Problem? Being…, 958

Categorization

• XREF: Recalls The Reluctant Fundamentalist’s contrast between American success norms and a protagonist’s reoriented life aims.