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

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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

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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.