Muslim widow Malika seduces Haitian doctor Etienne.During their first therapy sessions, Malika Ansari walked in with an attitude, and Dr. Benjamin Etienne thought she was haughty and something of a troublemaker. The Tribunal of Montreal had stayed assault charges against Malika Ansari, providing she stayed out of trouble and adhered to the Anger Management program recommended by Montreal Prosecutor Elias Aoun. Not for the first time, Dr. Etienne cursed his good friend Elias Aoun for sending Malika Ansari his way. The gal was nothing but trouble. As a physician, Dr. Etienne has a duty of care for his patients, so he tried to be polite and patient with Malika Ansari, even though she got on his damned nerves.
"I am a human being, before I'm a Muslim, or a woman, but the world forgets that," Malika Ansari said, shaking her head. Seated on the couch, safely ensconced in Dr. Benjamin Etienne's office, the tall and curvaceous, dark-haired and bronze-skinned Muslim woman unburdened herself. Dr. Etienne nodded sagely and beckoned for Malika Ansari to continue. Outside, a fast-driving snow blanketed the City of Montreal, province of Quebec. The chill in the room had nothing to do with the temperature outside, though...
"We are all human, before we're black or white or brown, Christian or Jewish or Muslim, male or female, that is true, but please continue," said Dr. Etienne. The tall, lean and athletic, dark-skinned therapist looked at his patient intently. Malika took a deep breath and continued with her story. The life of a foreign-born Muslim woman living in Quebec was never easy. La belle province doesn't like Muslims, or Africans, or Asians, or non-whites in general, and unlike the rest of Canada, they don't hide it.
As Malika continued with her story, Dr. Etienne thought about his halcyon days at McGill University. After moving to the City of Montreal, Quebec, with his parents, Andre and Yolanda Etienne, from their hometown of Quartier Morin, Haiti, Benjamin Etienne experienced a brand new world. The racism, both covert and overt which Benjamin experienced both in the City of Montreal and the supposedly liberal McGill University campus boggled the mind. Canada definitely wasn't the bastion of tolerance that the world imagined it to be.
"My husband Aziz died, and then I had to take a huge loan to avoid losing our house to foreclosure, my adult daughter Yasmin ran off with Jean-Luc, whose parents are Quebec separatists, and I got accused of having anger issues for retaliating against a white bitch at work," Malika said, shaking her head. Dr. Etienne nodded gently. The incident was well documented. While working as a supervisor at Walmart, Malika got into an altercation with an irate white female customer named Gladys. Long story short? Malika got sentenced to three hundred hours of anger management. Twice a week, for the past three months, she'd been meeting with Dr. Etienne.
