Posted on 06/16/2016 12:48:53 AM PDT by 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.
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Two kinds,the jhadist,and the ones who hope they succeed....when your complicit, your part of the
Problem
If their kind weren’t so violent, we wouldn’t have a problem. And, since they won’t police their own ranks, we have to do it. End of story.
[it bothers me that Pamela Geller can have freedom of speech, but where is my freedom of religion?]
If this bothers her, then she misses the entire point of the bill of rights and would be more comfortable in another country.
Geese, I remember being in school in the early eithies and people reminisced about the Iranian students getting sent back during the hostage thing
Oooh weeee caaaant. Wweeeee wwweeee caaaaant. Weeecaaant ddooooddoo it. How can we do it ???? We can’t do it no
Terrorists must be exterminated with extreme prejudice, each and every time.
If they are muslim, so be it.
It does appear lately that the muslim faith is over represented in the terrorist activity schedule of events.
Maybe she should convert to a less violent religion. But then she’d probably be killed by her family.
Muslims? Many are OK. Islam? Definately seditious to the US Constitution. Islam is not what the US is.
I studied the Qur’an and the Hadiths quite well back in the late 70s when I was offered a job training the Saudi Army.
I understand muslims all too well.
Ask any of them about Jews and Sharia.
the article comments are amusing. the premise does not seem very convincing to most readers.
Maybe they could try not flying planes into buildings, beheading other Muslims, blowing up train stations, shooting up nightclubs, sniping random people, holding children hostage, making children soldiers, etc.?
I’m not really demanding anything crazy.
Get Out Entsar
Is this farce? With what ISIS is doing, are these kids joking?
They should keep their mouths either shut or opened to decry the horrors muslims are committing.
ISIS is in all 50 states. 57 if you’re obama.
That innocent, poor me nonsense has got to go.
I haven’t read any report of a “hate” crime against muslims, though the MSM traitors would love one.
Well, yeah. Why don't these students say something about they and their parents having to be part of ending ISIS?
Yo, douchenozzle... If the "moderate" and "peaceful" muslims were working with the rest of us to weed out the violent muslims, you might have a point. But every time we see one of these horrific islamic terror attacks, we find that the perpetrator was well know amongst way too many "moderate" and "peaceful" muslims.
Your "religion" openly calls for believers to slaughter unbelievers.
Do not look outward for the issue. Look in the mirror, and in the minaret.
Stidents of Islam or just students not taught the US Constitution properly?
It's not because of ISIS, haji.
Here's another gem "speaking out."
Xcept this one is meh-hee-can
Illegal puta getting a free education in "community activism," and "creative body language interpretation."
Isn't she lovely and classy?
NO, she was not offered a full scholarship at Columbia...
Because of the Koran and many thousands of terrorist attacks, Muslims are seen as bad and violent people.
Fixed it for you, Mohamed.
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