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It seems an obvious thing to say, but you should not imagine that we Pakistanis are all potential terrorists, just as we should not imagine that you Americans are all undercover assassins.

Mohsin Hamid
Obvious Things, Assassins, Imagine
Mohsin Hamid (2007). “The Reluctant Fundamentalist”, p.183, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
It seems an obvious thing to say, but you should not imagine that we Pakistanis are all potential terrorists, just as we should not imagine that you Americans are all undercover assassins.