It turns out that one of the most famous men in modern history, Apple wizard Steve Jobs, was the son of a young Syrian Muslim immigrant, Abdul Fattah Jandali, but through a bizarre and Byzantine soap-opera, the two never met, as reported in
this excerpt from New American Media:
SAN FRANCISCO -- Abdul Fattah Jandali, a young Syrian Muslim immigrant
in Wisconsin, never met his son Steve Jobs. When a baby was born to the
23-year-old Jandali -- now known as John -- and his 23-year-old
German-American girlfriend, Joanne Schieble, in 1955, there was no
chance he'd be able to grow up with his biological parents.
Joanne,
who belonged to a white, conservative Christian family could not
convince her parents to marry an Arab, a Muslim, according to Jandali,
who called her father "a tyrant" in a New York Post interview
in August 2011. In fact, according to Jandali, she secreted off from
Wisconsin to liberal San Francisco to sort out the birth and adoption
without letting either him or her parents know.
And so it was
that a nameless Arab American baby was adopted by an Armenian American
family. Clara Hagopian and her husband Paul Jobs had been married around
seven years and had not been able to conceive. The little bundle that
would be Steve, was very much wanted in the Jobs household.
Steve
Paul Jobs, as they named him, grew up without ever knowing his
biological father. It seems he had no interest in knowing him later in
life, either. When, in August 2011, the London tabloid The Sun,
contacted Jandali, he publicly reached out to Steve saying, --I live in
hope that before it is too late he will reach out to me. Even to have
just one coffee with him just once would make me a very happy man." (READ FULL ARTICLE HERE)