"You're simply incorrigible and arrogant, Mr. Omar Stephens, someone should definitely teach you a lesson," Dr. Stephanie Macke-Leland said, and the slender yet curvy blonde academic pushed her glasses on the bridge of her nose, and sighed. She leaned against her desk, inside her private office. They were in the Law School at Canada's Capital University. Licking her lips, she looked at her soon-to-be former student Stephens and shook her lovely blonde head.
"Yeah, I got a real problem with authority, or so I've been told," Stephens replied, shrugging. The big and tall young black man casually ran his hands through his Afro, and looked at his professor. Ever since he first took a look at her, way back in January, Stephens found her simply hot. Dr. Stephanie Macke-Leland was smart, savvy, and quite knowledgeable about the course she taught, The Law In An International Lens. Unlike other profs that Stephens had, he genuinely respected the good doctor.
"Why did you oppose me in every class discussion, Omar? You know the material, and you often ended up agreeing with me, so why were you such a dick?" Dr. Stephanie Macke-Leland asked, licking her lips, and Omar Stephens shifted uncomfortably in his seat. The towering, dark-skinned brother could sense the lovely academic's exasperation, and it pained him not to be able to reveal his feelings.
I opposed you because, like a lot of Muslim men of color, I secretly find bossy white women smoking hot and I can barely control myself when I'm around you, Stephens thought, and he bit his lip, barely stopping himself from speaking. The professor's stance was provocative, and she looked like she meant business. Double hotness as far as he was concerned. How many times had Omar Stephens lain in his bed at night, thinking about Dr. Stephanie Macke-Leland, the most beautiful academic he'd ever seen?
"Well, Omar Stephens, cat got your frigging tongue?" Dr. Stephanie Macke-Leland asked tersely, and the brother paused. Omar Stephens pondered how to best answer the prof's question. For an entire semester, he'd been amazed by her beauty and brains, and how she made even the most boring concepts in law seem so damn interesting and cool. Dr. Stephanie Macke-Leland engaged with students, and made law classes exciting. What more could anyone want in a teacher?
"Um, I like it when you're angry," Omar Stephens confessed, and the young man exhaled sharply. Born in the environs of Dorchester, Massachusetts, to a Jamaican immigrant family, Omar converted to Islam a while back, and embraced the beautiful religion fully. Islam changed his life, and he really liked the strength and simplicity of the faith. A lot of Jamaican-Americans found Omar's conversion to Islam quite odd, but he felt he made the right choice.
There was just one thing about Islam that Omar Stephens kind of disagreed with. In the Islamic faith, women obeyed and men ruled. It was that simple. From Saudi Arabia to Yemen, from Palestine to Nigeria, from Senegal to Indonesia, Islam was deeply patriarchal and Muslim women were expected to be deferential in their dealings with men, especially their husbands and fathers.