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.