Maligned and Misunderstood: Muslim Students Speak Out

NEA Today ^ | June 9, 2016 | Cindy Long

[GuavaCheesePuff]

Seventeen-year-old Entsar Mohamed is proud to be Muslim, but she admits it isn’t easy.

“Being a Muslim in America today is getting harder and I am worried that it will get worse,” says the senior at Mission High School in San Francisco, Calif. “Because of ISIS, Muslims are seen as bad and violent people.”

Anti-Islamic rhetoric has reached a fever pitch in America, spouting not only from presidential candidates and governors, but even from school board members, like one in Philadelphia who posted that she is “officially against Muslims” and “We don’t want them in America” on her Facebook page.

In New York, Chicago, and in Mohamed’s hometown of San Francisco, city bus ads paid for by millionaire Pamela Geller showed pictures of ISIS atrocities and proclaimed, “It’s not Islamophobia. It’s Islamorealism.”

For Muslims who ride city buses—including hundreds of school kids—the message was loud and clear: “Muslims are terrorists and must be feared.”

“It’s scary, unfair, and weird how we are in the year 2016 and people are allowed to be so openly biased and hateful,” says Mohamed Omar, 18, a senior at San Francisco’s Raul Wallenberg High School. “People look at us in a damning way, they have this image of us that’s hard to change, and it bothers me that Pamela Geller can have freedom of speech, but where is my freedom of religion?”

Islamophobia at School

Not surprisingly, Islamophobia from the larger society filters down into our schools. More than half of California’s Muslim students have experienced religion-based bullying, a rate double that of their non-Muslim peers nationally, according to a study of the California chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations.

[NorthMountain]

There’s plenty more,

Sure:

Hamas: Islamic
FATAH: Islamic
Hezbollah: Islamic
Moro Islamic Liberation Front: Islamic
Boko Haram: Islamic
Achille Lauro hijacking: Islamic
John Paul II assassin (attempted): Islamic

And no doubt more than that ...

These whiny little bitches have no idea what their religion is really all about.

[Netz]

Muslims and especially Paleostinians ALWAYS say they condemn ALL forms of violence but then go on to support it (against Israeli Jews) in Arabic, not to an English speaking audience...

[tbpiper]

Is this farce?

There are many Muslims who really don't know the Koran. They just know what they've been taught. It's not unlike Christians who never study the bible but attend church for years and just assume that their understanding of the faith is really correct.

There is an excellent Christian apologist, Nabeel Qureshi, who came from a long family line of Muslim missionaries. His conversion to Christianity was not easy, but when he actually confronted what was in the Koran, there was no other choice. Check him out.

I imagine these students are similar in their upbringing and really haven't thought that deeply about the fundamentals of their faith.

[jpsb]

Because of ISIS, Muslims are seen as bad and violent people

Just look at how non Muslims are treated my Muslims in any majority Muslim country.

[AppyPappy]

It’s rather interesting to hear freepers bash Muslims the same way and for the same reason that the libs bash us. It’s a grand irony. We bash the Muslims because the reality is that they kill so many people.
The libs bash the conservatives because they fantasize the same thing about conservatives.
The liberals want to ban the type of Hate Speech that Muslims practice but only if it comes from Christians.

[Lurker]

“but where is my freedom of religion?”

Saudi Arabia.

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[T-Bone Texan]

"Seventeen-year-old Entsar Mohamed is proud to be Muslim, ..."

Stopped reading right there. Charles Manson may have been proud of who/what he was, but to accept his criminality weakens the foundations of law and our very civilization.

So too with the murderous death cult that is islam.

[T-Bone Texan]

PS: this article came from the NEA website (National Education Association) and is the mouthpiece for that extremist leftist group. They work hard, daily, to destroy our values and forward their hateful agenda.

The comments, however, are awesome. They are well thought out and lucid, and give examples of islam as death cult.

They all get it.

So maybe there’s hope for those people after all.

[Netz]

I am not making this stuff up. All you have to do is look & listen to the skirt around the issues. They will say whatever you want to hear, aka, “Taquiya”...lying to non-Muslims to further the Islamic cause including Jihad.