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