MARTINA KASUBOVA

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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.