Be Safe, Eat Pork!
Alabama store owner, Chuck Biddenger put this slogan up on his sign for a local repair company. "BBQ PORK RESTAURANT IS SAFEST NO MUSLIMS INSIDE". Apparently Muslims do not eat pork, so there would never be any inside the restaurant. Sadly, for every one negative comment Chuck says he gets ten positive responses. He will not apologize or take it down.
So, here in America freedom of speech can be taken to a level that does offend certain people or groups of people. What does something like this teach little kids or anyone for that matter? To spread hatred and cause harm. Exactly what Mr. Biddenger says the Muslims are doing in our country. Maybe he should think twice about putting up signs like this.
http://loganswarning.com/2010/12/12/alabama-anti-islam-sign-gets-support/

CHRISTINA DICOSTANZO

http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/eboo_patel/2007/03/discrimination_against_muslims.html

This article shows a personal example of just how horribly some people from America treat Muslims. Not only just adults are doing this but, they have their children involved now. In the beginning of the article a women was talking about how her son was getting bullied to the point where he was having nightmares and wanting to change his religion. That's just how cruel people are being. Was he the one that crashed a plane into the Twin Towers? No. He shouldn't be getting put down simply because he is Muslim. The person who wrote this article has a fear that when his child is born that he will face his own problems when he goes to school. He says that somehow to a million Americans his baby will look like Osama Bin Laden just because he is Muslim.

He then talks about more racism. He gives an example about how if an armed 5 foot 11 man commits a robbery and it's aired on the news. You wouldn't expect every 5 foot 11 inch man out there to be the robber, that would be ridiculous. Then he asks why would he, a 5 foot 11 inch Muslim be held for the responsible for the actions (murders and terrorism) of some people who happen to share the same faith as him? That's racist and it's unfair to put a stereotype on all of these people.

In the end of the article he goes on to say that America is a place where people are from different backgrounds, racial, ethnic, national, & religion. Also, that America is a place where people maintain pride in their heritage and come together to build a new nation. He says he wants to be part of that and that millions of Muslims want to be apart of that nation. By shutting the Muslims out America is not only twisting their faith, but insulting the soul of this country.

LISA BLAIS

I read an article about how "Muslims are taking over the world." The reason they think that is because the population has gone down with our own population, but the Muslim growth in different countries has gone up! They have more kids than we do so they start to think that Muslims are taking over the world; the reason is not that they want to outdo us with kids and slowly take over, it's because they want kids. They have more kids; it's what they do, and I am sure that some of them want to take over the world with their population. But for the most part, it's only because we don't have a lot of kids and they do, so they are growing in their countries.

http://jesuswept.wordpress.com/2006/11/09/muslims-are-taking-over-the-world-quietly/

TIAHNA SOMERO

A mother that has a 7-year-old child said that he told her that he did not want to go to school anymore. You ask why? Well the reasoning is that his young peers are picking on him; they are calling him horrible names like “Terrorist,” “Osama,” “America-hater” ex. They also had been kicking him and pushing him down on the playground! In regards of this he also started to have nightmares again. This kid seriously told his mother that he did not want to be Muslim anymore, did not want to pray, fast, he also wanted to change his name.

Now some families are worried for their children in the future because they say that their baby will look like Osama bin Laden to millions of Americans. She says that she keeps on having panic attacks because of the hatred in this country.

People are saying, “why should I be responsible for something I didn’t do” they are saying that because people are criticizing them because for what the Terrorist did on 9/11. The discrimination against Muslims in the United States has increased science 9/11 because when the two planes hit it was the terrorists fault that Muslims got the reputation they have now, people think that oh you’re a terrorist because you are Muslim and that is why it has increased because people assume things. How can we decrease prejudice and discrimination against Muslims in the United States? Well I think that we can actually get taught in school or around us, in some way to really say that we don’t have to hate every Muslim that walks by, and teach them that not all Muslims are terrorists.

My opinion on this is that it is just rood! Because the people are right “why should they be responsible for something they didn’t do” I mean yea it was their same culture that did that but it was not every Muslim that did that on 9/11. Allot of this is bulling in my eyes and no one should be able to do that. This is just like you getting picked on for looking different. Would you like that? I think not, no one would and I know that I wouldn’t like it. Like if they look like someone that did someone then would you just go and beat them up? no because that is not the right thing to do. Yes the Muslims of 9/11 should have not done that and yes it was totally wrong but we shouldn’t go blaming all the others that did not participate in it they got affected by it too and they still are.

http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/eboo_patel/2007/03/discrimination_

against_muslims.html

JEFF GARRITY

This video was the first to pop up so i watch it and shows a women dressed as a muslim go into a donut shop, In the begining I saw a man who was not muslim get donuts but then the women that was dressed as a muslim was completly denied service just because she was a muslim. This video definitly shows what we amercans do to these people who are not so different from us because we were in a search for a new life and we found america where everybody is free.

KRIS WESCOTT

The video i picked was how Muslims are treated in the U.S. A women that dressed up as a Muslim went into a bakery. A man walked in before her and got what he needed. Then the women who was dressed up as a Muslim went in and got denied to get served there because she wasn't dressed right. The guy who owned the store said he wouldn't serve Muslims in his store. There was another girl that was a Muslim but wasn't dressed like a Muslim and he said she could get served. He said he wouldn't served anyone that was dressed like a Muslim. Many people got upset and said they wouldn't go there ever again because he wouldn't serve a person who wasn't dressed like an American. This video shows how Muslims are treated in the United States.

MARTINA KASUBOVA

LINK FOR ARTICLE

This article is a blog written by a muslim who feels the discrimination on her own skin, but also talks to other muslims whose children are being bullied in school. The children are being threatened that much, that they wish to give up on their muslim faith and want their parents being "normal" and do not present themselves as muslims. The teachers in school are not concerned about it and they don't do anything to prevent the muslim kids from being bullied. The author of the blog provides examples of the several cases of which she has heard that muslim children in the schools were being bullied by their classmates and being called names like "Osama", "America-hater" or "terrorist". The author believes that considering all muslims being terrorists is the same as considering all five-foot-eleven-inch tall people robbers, if an armed robbery was commited by a five-foot-eleven-inch tall person. There has been a significant rise in the discrimination of Muslims in the U.S. after the September 11th. We may ask a question why is it so? Maybe because people in the U.S. are judgemental and they are able to judge the whole race of people all the whole religion, because of the acts of one extremists terroristic group. Or people are so easily influenced by the media and the other people and they create a stereotype about the whole Muslim population and treat the moderate Muslims the same way as if they were responsible for the attacks themselves. When people are scared, like people who saw what happened on the 9/11 they start to feel hate and fear and blame other people and they subconsciously join together against the "potential threat" which is in this case the whole Muslim population that is where the collective reaction takes place. We could decrease prejudice and discrimination against Muslims if we learned more about their religion and the whole Middle-East. It's a good idea to make the subjects "Middle East and Terrorism" obligatory, to make sure that kids in school learn more about Muslims and Islam and understand that they are not all terrorists and learn to respect them as equal. Teachers should teach the kids the history of the Middle East and introduce the religion of Islam to them, so they can understand that the terroristic attacks are being committed by just a small extremist group of Muslims and the moderate Muslims has nothing to do with it. This is the best was to prevent the discrimination of Muslims, because the ignorance of the american nation towards their history and their religion is their greatest enemy.