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.
I had read the same article and found it baffling that idiscrimination is such a huge problem still. You did a nice job relaying the emotions through the article. Good Job.
ReplyDeleteIts horrible how people just judge some on what they look like. I know a few Muslim people and they arent bad people at all. There are some bad Muslims but not all of them are really bad. Good job.
ReplyDeleteI love the picture and the article holds alot of information that people still dont know about being muslim.great job.
ReplyDeleteIt's true that a lot of people are acting horrible towards Muslims in general, but the fact that a boy is being bullied so much that he has nightmares is shocking.
ReplyDeleteChristina, Kids can be so cruel. Nice job summarizing the article! You did not answer the two questions in the prompt and loss some credit for that.
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