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TED简介：2015 | 如果在独断和仇恨的环境中长大，你会选择一条不一样的道路吗？当扎克·易卜拉欣只有七岁时，他父亲就参与计划了1993年世界贸易中心爆炸袭击。他的故事是令人震惊的，强大的，终究也是鼓舞人心的。

演讲者：Zak Ebrahim 扎克·易卜拉

片长：09：13

On November 5th, 1990, a man namedEl-Sayyid Nosair walked into a hotel in Manhattan and assassinated Rabbi MeirKahane, the leader of the Jewish Defense League. Nosair was initially found notguilty of the murder, but while serving time on lesser charges, he and othermen began planning attacks on a dozen New York City landmarks, includingtunnels, synagogues and the United Nations headquarters. Thankfully, thoseplans were foiled by an FBI informant. 

1990年11月5日，一位名叫埃尔·塞伊德·诺塞尔的男子走入曼哈顿的一间宾馆刺杀了拉比梅厄‧卡赫纳，犹太防卫联盟的首领。诺塞尔一开始并未被指认参与谋杀，但当他因小事入狱服刑期间，他和一些人开始计划袭击纽约市的一些地标，包括隧道，犹太教会堂和联合国总部。谢天谢地，这些计划被美国联邦调查局的线人挫败了。

Sadly, the 1993 bombing of the WorldTrade Center was not. Nosair would eventually be convicted for his involvementin the plot. El-Sayyid Nosair is my father.

不幸的是，1993年世贸中心的那场爆炸袭击却发生了。诺塞尔最终被指控参与这场犯罪谋划。埃尔·塞伊德·诺塞尔是我的父亲。

I was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in1983 to him, an Egyptian engineer, and a loving American mother and gradeschool teacher, who together tried their best to create a happy childhood forme. It wasn't until I was seven years old that our family dynamic started tochange. 

我1983年出生在宾夕法尼亚州的匹兹堡，我的父亲是一位埃及裔工程师，我有个爱我的美国母亲，她是一名小学老师，他们尽最大的努力为给我创造出欢乐的童年。直到我7岁的时候家庭氛围开始出现了变化。

My father exposed me to a side of Islam that few people, including themajority of Muslims, get to see. It's been my experience that when people takethe time to interact with one another, it doesn't take long to realize that forthe most part, we all want the same things out of life. However, in everyreligion, in every population, you'll find a small percentage of people whohold so fervently to their beliefs that they feel they must use any meansnecessary to make others live as they do.

我的父亲让我接触伊斯兰的一支很少人见过，包括大部分的穆斯林，都没见过的一个派别。我的人生经验告诉我人们与彼此相处，很快就意识到，很大程度上人们对生活有着相同的追求。然而，所有宗教，所有群体，你总能看到一小部分人对他们的信仰太过狂热以至于认为他们应该用各种方法让其他人和他们过同样的生活。

A few months prior to his arrest, he sat medown and explained that for the past few weekends, he and some friends had beengoing to a shooting range on Long Island for target practice. He told me I'd begoing with him the next morning. We arrived at Calverton Shooting Range, whichunbeknownst to our group was being watched by the FBI. When it was my turn toshoot, my father helped me hold the rifle to my shoulder and explained how toaim at the target about 30 yards off. 

在他被捕前的几个月，他和我坐着聊天解释到在过去的几个周末，他和他的一些朋友在长岛（美国纽约州东南部岛屿）进行目标射击训练。他让我第二天一早和他一起去。我们来到凯佛顿射击场，我们并不知道自己已经被联邦调查局监视了。轮到我射击的时候，我的父亲帮我扶住肩膀上的来福枪，并教导我如何瞄准30码处的目标。

That day, the last bullet I shot hit thesmall orange light that sat on top of the target and to everyone's surprise,especially mine, the entire target burst into flames. My uncle turned to theother men, and in Arabic said, "Ibn abuh." Like father, like son.They all seemed to get a really big laugh out of that comment, but it wasn'tuntil a few years later that I fully understood what they thought was so funny.

那天，我射出的最后一颗子弹打中了目标顶上的橙色亮光，所有人都惊呆了，尤其是我，整个目标版燃烧了。我的叔叔转向旁边的人，用阿拉伯语说到，“Ibnabuh”——虎父无犬子。他们当场开怀大笑起来。

They thought they saw in me the same destruction my father was capable of.Those men would eventually be convicted of placing a van filled with 1,500pounds of explosives into the sub-level parking lot of the World Trade Center'sNorth Tower, causing an explosion that killed six people and injured over 1,000others. These were the men I looked up to. These were the men I called ammu,which means uncle.

几年后我才了解他们大笑的原因，他们以为我和我的父亲有着同样的摧毁能力。这群男人最终被指控将满载1500磅重的炸弹的厢式货车停在世界贸易中心北塔的地下停车场，爆炸造成6人死亡，同时致使超过1000人受伤。这些是我曾经敬仰的人。这些是我曾经称呼其为ammu，意为叔叔的人。

By the time I turned 19, I had alreadymoved 20 times in my life, and that instability during my childhood didn'treally provide an opportunity to make many friends. Each time I would begin tofeel comfortable around someone, it was time to pack up and move to the nexttown. Being the perpetual new face in class, I was frequently the target ofbullies. 

当我19岁的时候，我已经搬超过20次家了，童年所经历的不稳定并未给我结交朋友的机会。每当我感到和附近人相熟时，就是我要收拾行囊去下一个地方的时候。作为永远的班级新生，我常是同学们欺负的对象。

I kept my identity a secret from my classmates to avoid beingtargeted, but as it turns out, being the quiet, chubby new kid in class wasmore than enough ammunition. So for the most part, I spent my time at homereading books and watching TV or playing video games. For those reasons, mysocial skills were lacking, to say the least, and growing up in a bigotedhousehold, I wasn't prepared for the real world. I'd been raised to judgepeople based on arbitrary measurements, like a person's race or religion.

为了不被同班同学欺负，我将自己的身份保密，但结果是，作为安静又胖乎乎的新同学很轻易就成为被欺负的对象。所以更多的时候，我待在家里看书看电视或者是打电动。正因为这样，我的社交能力有所缺失，简单地说，成长在固执的家庭，我没有准备好应对现实世界。我被教育成用武断的方式，依据人们的脸或宗教，来评断他人。

So what opened my eyes? One of my firstexperiences that challenged this way of thinking was during the 2000presidential elections. Through a college prep program, I was able to take partin the National Youth Convention in Philadelphia. My particular group's focuswas on youth violence, and having been the victim of bullying for most of mylife, this was a subject in which I felt particularly passionate. The membersof our group came from many different walks of life. 

什么让我开了眼界呢？某次经历挑战了我思考的方式发生于2000年美国总统竞选期间。在预科期间，我参与了在费城举办的全国青年大会。我这组的话题是关于青少年暴力，作为倍受欺负的受害者，这个话题我很感兴趣。组员都有着不同的生活轨迹。

One day toward the end ofthe convention, I found out that one of the kids I had befriended was Jewish.Now, it had taken several days for this detail to come to light, and I realizedthat there was no natural animosity between the two of us. I had never had aJewish friend before, and frankly I felt a sense of pride in having been ableto overcome a barrier that for most of my life I had been led to believe wasinsurmountable. 

大会临近结束的某天，我发现我的某个朋友是犹太人。我也是过了几天才知晓这件事情，我认识到，我们之间并没有与生俱来的仇恨。我从未有过犹太朋友，坦白地说，我为此感到骄傲，能够跨越我人生绝大部分时间认为是不可能逾越的障碍。

Another major turning point came when I found a summer job atBusch Gardens, an amusement park. There, I was exposed to people from all sortsof faiths and cultures, and that experience proved to be fundamental to thedevelopment of my character. Most of my life, I'd been taught thathomosexuality was a sin, and by extension, that all gay people were a negative influence.

另一个转折点是，某年暑假，我在布希花园这个主题乐园打工。我见识到有着不同信仰，来自不同文化的人们，这样的经验对我的人格发展是至关重要的。因为在过去的日子，我接收到的教育是，同性恋是罪恶的，据此推断，所有的同性恋者都有着消极的影响。

As chance would have it, I had the opportunity to work with some of the gayperformers at a show there, and soon found that many were the kindest, leastjudgmental people I had ever met. Being bullied as a kid created a sense ofempathy in me toward the suffering of others, and it comes very unnaturally tome to treat people who are kind in any other way than how I would want to betreated. Because of that feeling, I was able to contrast the stereotypes I'dbeen taught as a child with real life experience and interaction. I don't knowwhat it's like to be gay, but I'm well acquainted with being judged forsomething that's beyond my control.

在我打暑期工的时间里，我有机会和同性恋演员一起合作，我很快发现，很多同性恋者是我所见过最善良，最自由开放尊重他人的人。在儿童时期被欺负的经历教给我要对他人的遭遇感到同情和怜悯，对我来说，我会善待那些对我好的人。因为这样的感受，我能够用真实生活和交际经历来抵挡从孩童时期就被灌输的成见。我不知道作为同性恋者的感受，但我熟知那种被无法掌控的事物所评断的感受。

Then there was "The Daily Show."On a nightly basis, Jon Stewart forced me to be intellectually honest withmyself about my own bigotry and helped me to realize that a person's race,religion or sexual orientation had nothing to do with the quality of one'scharacter. He was in many ways a father figure to me when I was in desperateneed of one. Inspiration can often come from an unexpected place, and the factthat a Jewish comedian had done more to positively influence my worldview thanmy own extremist father is not lost on me.

接着，有个“每日秀”的节目出现了。每一晚，乔恩·斯图尔特催促我诚实面对自己的偏见，帮助我认识到一个人的种族，信仰和性取向对这个人的人格没有任何关系。某种程度上说，每当我迫切需要一个父亲的时候，他就在那里。鼓舞人心之事往往来自你无法预知的地方，事实上，一个犹太裔喜剧明星积极地影响我的世界观，比我那极端的亲生父亲多得多。

One day, I had a conversation with mymother about how my worldview was starting to change, and she said something tome that I will hold dear to my heart for as long as I live. She looked at mewith the weary eyes of someone who had experienced enough dogmatism to last alifetime, and said, "I'm tired of hating people." In that instant, Irealized how much negative energy it takes to hold that hatred inside of you.

某天，我和母亲谈到我的世界观正在改变，她对我说，我将在生命里一直带着尊重的心。她用疲倦的眼神看着我，她受够了被教条主义侵占的人生，说到：“我不愿憎恨他人了。”瞬间，我意识到，在内心里承受憎恨需要多么巨大的负能量。

Zak Ebrahim is not my real name. I changedit when my family decided to end our connection with my father and start a newlife. So why would I out myself and potentially put myself in danger? Well,that's simple. I do it in the hopes that perhaps someone someday who iscompelled to use violence may hear my story and realize that there is a betterway, that although I had been subjected to this violent, intolerant ideology,that I did not become fanaticized. Instead, I choose to use my experience tofight back against terrorism, against the bigotry. 

扎克‧伊博黑姆不是我的本名。当我的家人决定和我父亲断绝关系时我改了这个名字以开始新的生活。那么，我为什么要出现在公众视线前将自己置于可能的危险境地呢？嗯，这很容易解释。我这样做是希望也许某人某天当他决定使用武力反抗社会的时候可能会听到我的故事，并意识到有比动武更好的方法，尽管我曾被灌输这样的暴力思维，偏狭的意识，我并没有为其所动。而是选择通过自己的经验来抵抗恐怖主义，来反对偏见。

I do it for the victims ofterrorism and their loved ones, for the terrible pain and loss that terrorismhas forced upon their lives. For the victims of terrorism, I will speak outagainst these senseless acts and condemn my father's actions. And with thatsimple fact, I stand here as proof that violence isn't inherent in one'sreligion or race, and the son does not have to follow the ways of his father. Iam not my father.

我为了那些恐怖袭击的受害者以及他们的亲人而这样做，为了那些被恐怖主义活动所造成的生命的苦痛和损失而这样做。为了那些遭受恐怖袭击的受害者，我站出来反对这些毫无意义的袭击行动，谴责我父亲的行为。就是这样简单的原因，我站在这里证明暴力不是宗教或种族与生俱来的，儿子并不需要走上和父亲相同的道路。我不是我的父亲。

Thank you. (Applause)Thank you, everybody. (Applause)Thank you all. (Applause)Thanks a lot. (Applause)

谢谢。（掌声）谢谢各位。（掌声）谢谢大家。（掌声）非常感谢。（掌声）