DONNA KELLEY, CNN ANCHOR: Afghans living in America find it hard to watch what's happening in their country, a country that is torn by war. And as Muslims, many are enduring isolation and hard times in the United States. CNN's Anne McDermott introduces us to one such family in California.</s>ZOHRA DAOUD: We felt a little bit isolated.</s>MOHAMMED DAOUD: We were scared. No, we were scared.</s>MCDERMOTT: Their two girls simply shrugged it all off.</s>WOANA DAOUD: She got teased. She got made fun of, but they took care of it. The people apologized to her.</s>MCDERMOTT: Now their parents are hoping maybe this time once it's over, Afghanistan will have a government of the people.</s>ZOHRA DAOUD: Because the Afghan people, they are so deprived from love, peace, education for such a long time, you know. When I see them on TV, it's really, it breaks my heart.</s>MCDERMOTT: They'd like to go home and help their country and maybe someday they will. In the meantime, Zohra Daoud hosts a radio show for fellow Afghan refugees. Her husband is a pilot for United Airlines. But when they're not working, they're watching TV news and they wonder when it will end.</s>MOHAMMED DAOUD: Afghanistan has been the whipping boy of the whole world.</s>MCDERMOTT: They both like to point out that bin Laden and his deputies are not Afghans. Afghans, they say, want a country that's free, and they point to one of their most prized possessions, a statue by an Afghan artist.</s>MOHAMMED DAOUD: And this is called a mujahad (ph), a freedom fighter.</s>MCDERMOTT: Anne McDermott, CNN, Malibu, California.
Afghans in America: Isolation and Worry