cuty
Dec 26, 2010
Undergraduate / "As an American Muslim I don't agree for some US policies" - unfair situation [3]
I am going to discuss the challenges that American Muslims are facing. As a minority in the United States, Muslims face many challenges. First and foremost is ignorance about Islam. This ignorance leads to fear and distrust. The acts of a few Muslim extremists are attributed to all Muslims.
Despite several generations in this country, Muslims have quite a history in the U.S.we are still perceived as foreigners; we are still perceived as people out to destroy the United States, and when we attempt to define ourselves, our ...
I have rewritten the whole thing
The cases that i have written below are either from a reliable source or I myself contacted the victim.
I would appreciate any suggestions!
Muslim students are being bullied and verbally harassed. Muslim girls are being taunted, assaulted at school for wearing Hijab. These cases, that I am going to discuss may not be experienced by a majority of American Muslims, they are nevertheless serious issues that must be addressed.
There is the case of Kristian, a Muslim teen who suffered nine months of physical and emotional abuse, including being kicked in the head and punched in the groin so hard he later saw blood in his urine. His grades suffered, his personality changed and he withdrew from friends and family. Shaffiate, Kristian's father said that teachers saw other students hit Kristian in the head with large books but didn't do anything to change the situation other than telling them to stop and not following through. Kristian has yet to return to school and the family is hoping to transfer him to another school in a safe learning environment.
American Muslim women face many unique additional challenges. For instance, a woman who wears hijab, which is the traditional head-covering, is often taunted at work and on the street, and the careers of a lot of these women are actually jeopardized they are discriminated against at work and they are not given jobs.
A Muslim employee in Disneyland's Grand Californian Hotel has been sent home from work with no pay for refusing to take off her hijab while working as a hostess in one of the hotel's restaurants.
Bullying Muslim students is simply ignorance and should never be tolerated or encouraged. The best that can done is to tell young generation the truth behind negative images of Islam and Muslims, except of relaying on media this should be done by talking to Muslims and hearing their voices.
I am going to discuss the challenges that American Muslims are facing. As a minority in the United States, Muslims face many challenges. First and foremost is ignorance about Islam. This ignorance leads to fear and distrust. The acts of a few Muslim extremists are attributed to all Muslims.
Despite several generations in this country, Muslims have quite a history in the U.S.we are still perceived as foreigners; we are still perceived as people out to destroy the United States, and when we attempt to define ourselves, our ...
I have rewritten the whole thing
The cases that i have written below are either from a reliable source or I myself contacted the victim.
I would appreciate any suggestions!
Muslim students are being bullied and verbally harassed. Muslim girls are being taunted, assaulted at school for wearing Hijab. These cases, that I am going to discuss may not be experienced by a majority of American Muslims, they are nevertheless serious issues that must be addressed.
There is the case of Kristian, a Muslim teen who suffered nine months of physical and emotional abuse, including being kicked in the head and punched in the groin so hard he later saw blood in his urine. His grades suffered, his personality changed and he withdrew from friends and family. Shaffiate, Kristian's father said that teachers saw other students hit Kristian in the head with large books but didn't do anything to change the situation other than telling them to stop and not following through. Kristian has yet to return to school and the family is hoping to transfer him to another school in a safe learning environment.
American Muslim women face many unique additional challenges. For instance, a woman who wears hijab, which is the traditional head-covering, is often taunted at work and on the street, and the careers of a lot of these women are actually jeopardized they are discriminated against at work and they are not given jobs.
A Muslim employee in Disneyland's Grand Californian Hotel has been sent home from work with no pay for refusing to take off her hijab while working as a hostess in one of the hotel's restaurants.
Bullying Muslim students is simply ignorance and should never be tolerated or encouraged. The best that can done is to tell young generation the truth behind negative images of Islam and Muslims, except of relaying on media this should be done by talking to Muslims and hearing their voices.
