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.

AMANDA SWEENEY

I read an article that stated a few cases in which Muslims were discriminated against. Case #1: Bay area, CA: a Muslim women received a death threat from a co-worker. her supervisors treated it as just a joke. she then left her job because she no longer felt safe working there. Case #2: Cupertino CA: A 34 year old Jordanian-American technician was fired from his job of seven months making computer circuit boards. The week before September 11th, his weekly evaluation was positive, as usual. Then the day after the terrorist attacks, his boss required him to report where he was every half-hour. After a week he lost his job in a series of layoffs. Even thought there were other layoffs, the company kept technicians with less seniority then his. Case #3: Fontana, CA: A Muslim high school senior was working at a fast food restaurant, was the repeated target of bias joked from both his co-workers and his manager. At first just his co-workers taunted him about why his "cousins" destroyed the world trade center. He was then fired later on.

This article is talking about how Muslims are fired from their jobs for no reason at all. How they are treated unfairly at their jobs, "having to report where you are every 30 minutes." Then being fired for minor things. They look for reasons to fire them. They also should not have taken the death threats as a joke, they should never be taken as a joke. It was threatening another persons life, they should have reported it so she could have kept her job. Innocent Muslims are being blamed for the act of others and i don't think its fair at all. They should not be blamed as a whole. They didn't do anything as that one person, they shouldn't be blamed for another persons actions of the same religion.

KYLE GARDNER

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2T6iMfzHVks This video shows job discrimination in the U.S. Muslims are being harrassed in the work place. They are not being allowed to pray during work hours, women have to remove thier head scarfs.



1. People have seen what the media wants them to see so people assume thats what they all think.



2. We could try to stop the media from discriminating muslims in the U.S,

ELLEN WILBORG

The article I read is about Muslims dealing with the rising discrimination at work. It starts off saying that co-workers are calling Muslims terrorists and Osama, and they are also not allowed to wear head scarves or take prayer breaks in some work places. It also says that complaints were increasing even before the Islamic Center in Lower Manhattan was planned to be built. By September 30th, 2009 there was already 803 complaints filed. According to federal data, it had gone up 20% since 2008, and nearly 60% since 2005. They are not giving out how many complaints that have been filed this year until January 2011, but Islamic goups suggest that the number will set another record. The federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has found some complaints with such big concern, that they have filed quite a few lawsuits for the Muslim workers. In August 2010, the EEOC sued JBS Swift, a meatpacking company. They sued them because 160 Somali immigrants said supervisors and co-workers swore at them because they were Muslim, threw meat, blood, and bones at them, and interrupted their prayer breaks. On September 1st, the EEOC filed a case against Abercrombie and Fitch, accusing them of not hiring an 18 year old girl who was Muslim, because she was wearing a headscarf. The rising number of complaints about Muslims is higher now than it was after 9/11. Mohammad Kaleemudding, a Pakistani immigrant who drove trucks for the American war effort in Iraq for 3 years, said that while he was working in Houston for a construction company, he was called Osama, al Qaeda, Taliban, and terrorist. After protesting against the slurs, he was fired by the company. He said he woners why they are doing that, when he has always been nice to them. He then filed a complaint and the EEOC sued the company, who then had to pay him $61,250. Imane Boudlal, a 26 year old woman from Calablanca, Morocco, worked for 2 years at the Storytellers Cafe in Disneyland in Anaheim, California. She decided to wear her hijab during Ramadan while working, and then her supervisors told her she could either work in the back or the telephone job. She said no and hasn't been to work since. The Disney officials said that the head scarf clashed with the early 1900's theme of the restaurant, and so they suggested a hat more of that time period that fell over here ears. She rejected the hat, saying that they wanted to hide the fact that she was a Muslim. A Disney spokesman said that the company has made over 200 accommodations since 2007.

LINK FOR ARTICLE : http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/24/business/24muslim.html?_r=1&pagewanted=2

AMANDA ROSS

LINK FOR ARTICLE :



This article has two stories about Muslims being discriminated at their work place. A man was harassing a Tunisian waiter and Hadji asking the man to leave but instead the restaurant's owner asking Hadji to apologize or to leave. Another case similar to that was about a woman being called "Mrs.Bin Laden".

I think discrimination has increased since then because some people think that all Muslims are terrorist and are gonna blow everything in their path. Also people don't understand Muslims and their religion, they think that they all come from the part of the religion that has become bad, when they aren't all from that one bad part.

I think the best way is to try to teach people about the middle east and terrorism and try to explain to them that not all Muslims are bad, and that their religion is not right or whatever. But most people wont listen to that, people will think what they want to think, and sometimes we just can't change their mind. So i don't know a way that could possible help out, that's the only way but like i said, people will think what they want to think.

NICK REYNOLDS

In the following video, Barrack Obama gives a speech in Cairo, Egypt saying that he plans to make the relationship between Muslims and Americans stronger. A man named Youssef Megahed is imprisoned and the US plans to deport him out of the US. Youssef came to America with his family and their family STILL has pending applications to be American citizens that I believe the US will not give to them easily just because they are Muslims. The police stopped Youssef in a traffic stop one day, and I think it was out of nowhere or planned because they came with like machine guns and bullet proof vests just to pull over Youssef and his friend who was also in the car. And they tell us that there were objects in the trunk that they "believed" to be explosives. I think that’s just absurd. They held them both for 18 months until Youssef's friend accepted the plea bargain, probably from peer pressure or seeing he was not going to get out anytime soon, and was sentenced to 15 years in prison. Now even though Youssef was not convicted of anything, the government is still threatening to kick him out of the country? For what reason exactly? He wasn’t even found guilty. And then of course not long later, they arrested him again for violating his "Immigration and Nationality Act". And I think it's completely absurd because they are trying to convict him of the same charges they tried to convict him earlier in the criminal trial. I believe that Muslims are on a certain scale discriminated a lot for the stupidest things. The main reason is because after the 9/11 attack, a lot of people are scarred that all Muslims are out to get them, or they're simply angry and don't want anything to do with Muslims. We can descrease the descrimination against Muslims if people would actually spend the time to come to learn and understand their religion, and possibly spend time with them. Muslims are not all bad, they're just feared and people don't like them.

DEREK RUST

This video is about ABC news when they do an experiment with a store clerk not serving a Muslim because of there religion and saying discriminating words. The purpose was to see what other customers in the store would react.

1. The reason there is descrimination is because people steriotype Muslims wether they are United States citizens or not by the things they see in movies and on the news about suicide bombers and all Muslims want to kill westerners because they are infidels. What people dont know is that Islam is a peaceful religoin.

2.There isn't much that we can do that would be succesful because too much steriotyping has convinced people and it would be very hard to change peoples way of thinking.

BRITTANY HUGHES

LINK FOR ARTICLE

I chose an article from the New York Times about discrimination against muslims in their work places. The article was basically explaining that from 2005 to 2009 it went up 60%. They included some examples:

Abercrombie & Fitch- for refusing to hire an 18 year old muslim boy for wearing a head scarf.

Sheraton Hotel- for taunting a customer.

1.) I think that discrimination against muslims has increased in the United States since 911 beause people were confused and scared.

SAM SCHOFF

LINK TO ARTICLE

I chose an artcile about a 24 year old women who was part of an experiment created by a women from the university of California. This women is using a fake muslim name and her goal is too see if she can get a job. The women who conducted this experiment found that muslims are two and a half times less likely to get a job interview than a Christian.

Also in this article it said that in France , the senate voted to ban women from wearing islamic face-veils in public and Swiss voters approved of an amendment to band the building of new mosques.

1.) I think that discrimination against the muslims in america has increased since 9/11 because of 9/11. Most Amerians blame all of the muslim race for what happened that day instead of just the radicals. I think for Americans, it is much easier for citizens to discriminate against all muslims because they dont know the difference between radical and moderate muslims and they cant tell the difference between them.

2.)Im not really sure how we can decrease the disrimination or prejudice of muslims. I have a feeling that it may be like this for awhile until at least the war is over.

JON MAHONEY

Two women were denied jobs in a Dearborn, Michigan McDonalds because they refused to take their headscarf (hijad) off. The two women then sued the McDonalds on a $10 million discrimination charge. This has happened many times at this McDonalds before.

The two women were hurt and said they were "hurt, disturbed, and confused that THIS would happen in a place like Dearborn, where there are many Muslims."

1. Discrimination has increased because the Radicals were the ones who blew up the towers, but no one knew of the difference so all Muslims got discriminated.

2. We can change it if we tell people that it was the Radicals and its them who we are against, and not the peaceful Moderate Muslims.

LAUREN MCCARTHY

A young mother said her child, which was seven years old, didn't want to go to school because people were calling him names like terrorist. They were pushing and kicking him. He started having nightmares and didn't want to pray or be a Muslim anymore. When she told teachers about it they didn't care and said her son was making it up. Muslim parent are afraid of what their children are going to go through. They are having an irrational fear of hatred because they are Muslim.
Discrimination has increased in the United States since 9/11 because people think that all Muslims are terrorists. People think that since some Muslims crashed the planes that all the Muslim people should be blamed for it. Ways we can decrease discrimination against Muslims is to try to tell people that not all Muslims are bad.

LINK FOR ARTICLE

LINK FOR ARTICLE

In the article that I have read it states that a man by the name of Juan Williams made a lot of discriminating comments about Muslims on the TV series The O'Reilly Factor on Fox news. some of his remarks where "I mean, look, Bill, in not a bigot. You know the kinds of books I've written on the Civil Rights movement in this country. But when I get on a plane, I've gotta tell you, when i see people in Muslim garb, and I think, you know, they are identifying themselves first and foremost as Muslims, I get worried, I get nervous." In a previous interview on the same show he got in trouble with NPR the company he works with for making rude comments about Michell Obama, but this wasn't enough to get him fired. after the interview on Bill O'Reilly he was fired from NPR by Ellen Weiss (Senior Vice President) of NPR and Juan said to Ellen when he was fired that " I said, you mean i don't get a chance to come in and we do this eyeball-to-eyeball, Person-to-Person, Have a conversation? I've been here for more than 10 years." Ellie Weiss responded "Theres nothing you can do that will change my mind." in the interview Williams stated that whenever a Muslim gets on a plane people get nervous because of 9/11 they think that they will blow buildings and planes up. My personal opinion on this is that i think Juan should have kept things to himself and not say them in the public, I also think that everyone one has a little Muslim phobia in them if not then well that's fantastic. Also discrimination has increased ALOT because of 9/11 now everyone stereotypes them as crazy goons running through the streets with towels on there head with an AK-47 screaming Allah. That's obviously not the truth because if people where like that then well it would be easy to distinguish who's a Muslim extremist and who's not. I think that if America was more accepting and such then we wouldn't have issues like this of course I'm not saying that we aren't accepting but if you look at the videos that a few people posted on here its clear as daylight that people are not accepting of Muslims but who can blame them we where attacked by them they flew airplanes into our buildings killed tons of people but if you alienate them will that solve anything? There is clearly not a solution to solve this and if there is I cant think of one.

MANDY MARSCHAT

LINK FOR ARTICLE

So in this article I found is about an act of discrimination against a young Muslim child. A boy no older then the age of seven was being harassed for multiple reasons by class mates. Certainly one of the reasons this child was picked on was because of his religion. The boy wanted to abandon his religion and his culture because of the fear he felt while at school. I'm sure his family encouraged him to keep his faith and to stay strong. The boy would also have nightmares and it effected his education; he was afraid to go to school. The boy was probably singled out by his name and appearance.

I think discrimination against Muslims in the United States has increased since 9/11 because people in the United States had always felt secure and since 9/11 that has all been blown apart. The United States is continuing to proceed with caution. Citizens of America feel that they need to be on guard. Since 9/11 people have began to look at people from the Middle East as a potential threat.

I think creating the Islamic Center would be a good way for people to be exposed to the Islamic people and their religion. In conclusion ignorance breeds fear.

Joshua Sharpe

I watched a video on YouTube showing discrimination of American Muslims called abc Primetime - How Muslims Are Treated In USA. ABC sent an actress dressed as a Muslim into a bakery to see how people would react to her being denied service due to her religion. During this experiment 12 people defended the girl saying the bakery was racist and discriminatory and they would never go back again. But, 6 people told the employee that he was a good American doing a good job and one man even gave him a thumbs up twice. What seemed most shocking to ABC was that 22 people just stood by and did nothing as if they didn't agree with a Muslim shopping their but just didn't want to say anything. Discrimination has been increasing since 9/11 because what originally started out as probably a few thousand discriminators grew to probably more than a few million because of constant attacks by Al-Qadea and other terrorist groups and people blaming moderate Muslims for radical actions. I think the best way to reduce discrimination is by getting rallies with popular and famous celebrates talking to people against discrimination because allot of the time people listen to celebrates and they tend to be more likely to copy them.

MONICA SOMERO

Link For Article

A 7 year old boy was getting picked on at school, kids were calling him "terroists" "Osama" "american hater"; they'd even push him oe even kick him. The little boy started having nightmares. He hated being a Muslim for this reason.

He wanted all the Muslim traditions to stop. He wanted to change his name...even his teachers were saying the boy was making it up and that it wasn't as bad as her was saying it was. Some people were comparing this to the problem with the blacks. A mother that is pregnant now, said she is worried that her child will be bullied all his life, or that he will forever look like Osama to Americans.

He gave the example, " If you see an armed robber suspect on the evening news who happens to be five foot eleven inches, you do not expect every person who is the same height to be armed robber." Americans probably wouldn't even acknowledge them. But if it was a Muslim, we'd stop them for sure and say mean things. It isn't fair to them as they just want to live freely.

He was saying, that there are many nations with a dark side, so why is it okay to twist Muslim? He also said, "isn't there many different ethnic groups? So why can't we just live in peace? They all want to be part of this nation, the people who are shutting them out, aren't only twisting their faith, their insulting the soul of this country."

Descrimination against Muslims in the U.S. has increased since 9/11 because I think people now days think every Muslim is a terroist. They just assume, even though most Muslims had absolutely nothing to do with it. Most Muslims were in just as much of danger as the Americans were with terroism. So I don't understand why americans are so against them, they should be able to live freely too.

We can decrease prejudice and discrimination against Muslims by just letting them get on with life without them hearing name calling constantly, and getting shoved around. Their people too, and if you were them, you wouldn't want to be treated the way they get treated. The terroist attack with even just the 9/11, affected even the Muslims too. They lost love ones, and were hurt by it too. Pretty much Americans just treat them like they aren't even human.

TylerBarney

Basically this is a video made by one of the news stations to act out discrimination within the U.S and see what the general public would do. Some people don't care, enjoy the fact that they are discriminating against them and some get really angry that they are doing it. The first person they view is happy that the man behind the counter is not allowing the Muslim woman to buy from his store. Then as it goes along there are people that don't care/ are not affected. But we soon see a few woman and men that get really upset about them acting against the Muslim woman and speak up against the man behind the counter. But all in all it is a good example of prejudice and racism against Muslims within the United States.

I believe its increased because many people blame the religion itself rather then the people that caused the attack. We need to remember that radical Islam is no longer just a religion, its political as well. Many people feel that the Muslims cause all of these problems we have with terrorists, and the entire U.S was astonished when they attacked the twin towers. So now people feel that its okay to treat anyone who is Muslim, like they are worthless and stuff like that, and its truly wrong.

I believe the only true way to reduce prejudice is to put the other people in their shoes. Make a law against racism and prejudice, and let the sentence be live the other persons life for 30 days like they did in the movie. So long as prejudice, hatred, racism are allowed, people will continue to act upon it towards Muslims. But if they were to live as a Muslim, in the other persons shoes for a period of time, they will begin to understand about the Muslims and why it is wrong to discriminate against them for no reason at all.

CONOR DEMMONS

Muslims Discriminated Harshly

Muslims all over America are discriminated and patrinized for 9/11, even though most of them are American born citizens. Here are some numerous cases of discrimination agaisnt muslims in the US. A woman in California recieved death threats from a co-worker and the people in the office thought it was funny. Is that really what America is becoming ? So angry at muslims to laugh at them when someone threatened to kill them ? Everyone knows if that were a christian or anyone else that person who sent deaththreats would be in jail and fired from their job. But, instead the mulsim women was laighed at adn end up quiting her job. Here's another case , a women converted to Islam (not even of muslim ethnicity) and the hospital she worked at people said she was "offensive" and that if she didnt wear her hijab that everything would be ok. I could go on for years with millions of discriminations against the muslim people. Vandilism, racism and discrimantion are things muslim people have to endure on a day to day basis. Is that what we want people to think about America? The country that is racist agaisnt muslims?

http://makkah.wordpress.com/2007/05/06/workplace-discrimination-against-muslims-after-911/

KRIS PEASE

Parents who profess the Islamic faith and have their children profess the Islamic faith or look like like "a terrorist" are scared to send their child to school. These Muslim children are now being bullied by the other children in the school. The bullys push the kid down and even kick him. They call him names such as terrorist, osama, and America hater. When the parents asked the teachers about this. They did nothing. The teachers even said that the child was making it up. It sounds that the child and parents are being discriminated against because of their religion or how they look. It sounds absurd that even in America we still have these acts of atrocity. This is discrimination in its finest form. People are blaming everyone in the Islamic faith for they events of 9/11. If a select group of catholics did that. No one would discriminate against them. It's absurd. This article was informative of what one family struggles through. Its discrimination and it needs to stop. http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/eboo_patel/2007/03/discrimination_against_muslims.html

DISCRIMINATION AGAINST MUSLIMS IN THE UNITED STATES

Since the attacks of September 11, 2001 Muslims in the United States have faced an increased amount of discrimination (unfair treatment of a person or group on the basis of prejudice - an irrational attitude of hostility directed against an individual, a group, a race, or their supposed characteristics).  In the next week we will be discussing the impact that 9/11 has had for Muslims in the United States.  You are responsible for completing the following:

• Do a search for either an article or a video that describes an example of discrimination against a Muslim or Muslims in the United States.  
• You must either post a video or include a link for an article in order to earn full credit.  You may use YouTube, news stations, PBS, or other resources for your video.  Please make sure that your video or article is from a valid source.
• If you post a video you must summarize the information from your video in your original post.
• If you post a link to an article you must summarize the article in your original post. If you choose to post an article you must also post a picture to include in your original post.
• Your original post must be written as any other essay would be written.  Check spelling, grammar, etc. 
• In addition to a summary of the news story you must answer the following questions in your original post:
• Why has discrimination against Muslims in the United States increased since 9/11?  Remember what we have talked about in class regarding stereotypes, collective reactions, etc.
• How can we decrease prejudice and discrimination against Muslims in the United States?  Provide specific and realistic suggestions.

In addition, you must respond to two of your peers' posts with comprehensive comments.  Do not simply state that they did a nice job.  The purpose of the peer response is for you to provide your reaction to the discrimination described in your peers' summary.  Your original post is due by the end of class.  If you can complete your peer posts by the end of class that is fantastic!  If not, the two peer posts will be due by Thursday, December 16th at 11:59 p.m.


Instructions for embedding a video, including a link for a video, and posting a picture:


Embedding a video:  If you embed a video the video will be included in your post and readers of your post will be able to watch the video straight from Blogger.

1.  Click the "embed" button, usually located underneath the video if in YouTube.
2.  The box below the video will highlight a long code.
3.  Copy the code.
4.  In Blogger, click on the HTML tab seen at the top, right hand corner of the box in which you are writing your blog.  Paste the code into the HTML box.  Then go back to the compose box by clicking the "compose" tab at the top right hand corner of the box in which you are writing your post.  ALWAYS POST YOUR VIDEO FIRST.  This way you can write underneath the video.


Including a link for a video/article:  The video link should be done if there is no way that you can embed a video.

1.  Type "LINK FOR VIDEO" or "LINK FOR ARTICLE" in your original post.
2.  Highlight the URL for the link of the news report.
3.  In your Blogger composition box highlight  the words "LINK FOR VIDEO" or "LINK FOR ARTICLE".
4.  Click the Link button at the top of the composition box.
5.  Paste your URL into the web address box.
6.  Click OK.


Including a picture: ALWAYS POST YOUR PICTURE FIRST.  This way you can write underneath the video.

1.  Choose an image and download your image in "My Pictures".

2.  Click the photo with a picture frame at the top of the composition box.

3.  Choose your file (image) and add the selected picture to your original blog.


Use your time wisely so that you do not have homework.