Five-year-old Yasmeen
Faruqui didn't feel like doing her homework. She insisted she wanted to
write to President Obama instead. And he wrote back.
@POTUS A letter from my 5 year old niece. Right out of the mouths of babes!
"Please stop war for our world,
instead have a meeting," reads Yasmeen's handwritten note, posted to
Twitter by her aunt. "Please give a speech to tell everyone they can
marry who they want."
Fahmida Zaman PhD
@POTUS A letter from my 5 year old niece. Right out of the mouths of babes! pic.twitter.com/Q8Sovz8eEL
.@DrFahmida tell your niece I really like her letter. Couldn't agree more!
Yasmeen's words were all her own, her mother told ABC News. (After all, only a 5-year-old would note she's "almost six" in a letter to the leader of the free world.)
"I just let her do her thing," Tasha Faruqui said. "Those are absolutely her spontaneous ideas. ... She has a mind of her own!"
Yasmeen, who's set to
participate in a family member's same-sex wedding ceremony this fall,
was bothered when her playmates insisted "boys can't marry boys."
"I don't think that's wrong," she told her mom.Fahmida Zaman PhD
@POTUS I will let her know you tweeted her back!
@POTUS She has been a long time supporter sir- you made her day! pic.twitter.com/n00yQ7lPzA
Because her father serves in the
Navy, war has always scared Yasmeen. When she heard the president had
read her letter, she went through the roof.
"This means the war's going to end! He got the letter," Yasmeen yelled.
When her mother explained that
isn't quite how diplomacy works, Yasmeen was still ecstatic: "Now he got
my message and he can share my message," she told her mom.
"I think it says a lot about our
president, responding to a letter of a 5-year-old. That's pretty
remarkable," Zaman said. "It lets her feel like her voice is heard."
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