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Maligned and Misunderstood: Muslim Students Speak Out
NEA Today ^ | June 9, 2016 | Cindy Long

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at neatoday.org ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: education; iran; isis; muslimbrotherhood; muslims; nea; rop; school
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

Deport ALL muslims. ALL.


21 posted on 06/16/2016 2:28:21 AM PDT by who knows what evil? (Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.com)
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

Who knew? The greatest anti-truth, anti-freedom, anti-individual, anti-life collective in the history of civilization has a bunch of whiney collectivists.


22 posted on 06/16/2016 2:34:15 AM PDT by PGalt
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To: LegendHasIt
Yes, Islam and Muslim behavior is worse than you think and even though you're always hoping they'll come around, they don't.

Surely you know the phrase:

Dar Al Islam and Dar Al Hareb?

23 posted on 06/16/2016 2:44:13 AM PDT by Netz
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

Muslims are seen as bad and violent people.”>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Then report the radical Muslims...report them...report them, even though it violates Sharia and the Koran, report the radical Umma.If not, you all will be ground into dust by the free.


24 posted on 06/16/2016 2:51:21 AM PDT by Candor7 ( Obama fascism article:(http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: GuavaCheesePuff
Hello, my name is Wahad Jihad and I condemn the acts of my fellow Muslims just as I condemn the acts of all violent people in the world.

It is a terrible tragedy how those people died because they are sinners before Allah.

I can't understand how any person can kill so many innocents while they were sinning before Alalh.

I myself am a very moderate man, unless I see homosexual men, Christians or Allah forbid, Jews who the Prophet commanded us to kill on the spot, but.. I digress.

Let me get back to my main point that Infidels deserve to die, not by my hand mind you but by Allah himself.

You see, we Muslims see ourselves as messengers of the Messenger, Muhammad and he commanded us to rape, pillage, mutilate, steal, lie and sometimes, yes, even kill the nonbeliever but again, I digress.

All Muslim people are good people, holy people and are just serving Allah in the only way we know how, either kill or be killed, this is a great and honorable thing to do.

Happy Ramadan ladies and gentleman and if I see you fellow Muslims eating during the Ramadan fast, I will gouge out your eyes.

If I see Infidels, I will kill them...yes, Happy holidays to you all.

25 posted on 06/16/2016 2:55:14 AM PDT by Netz
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

It is no because of Isis that Muslims are seen as violent people. It is because Isis draws its justification for nauseatingly violent and depraved murder from the Koran, and there has been no countermovement of Muslims protesting that this anti-Western violence does not represent them. Through their silence, the mass of American Muslims have damned their faith and its practitioners.


26 posted on 06/16/2016 3:05:59 AM PDT by Piranha (Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have - Saul Alinsky)
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

Shut up, Taqiyya.


27 posted on 06/16/2016 3:07:00 AM PDT by CincyRichieRich (Still binary in all the right ways.)
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

awwwwww geee....tears come to my eyes reading this heart-renching BS propaganda

actual tears.

“Moslems are seen as dangerous and violent people..”
it says

geeee!????? wonder why????????????????????? what a Great MYSTERY!

/s


28 posted on 06/16/2016 3:09:45 AM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians are not born. They're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero)
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

No, sweety, it is not because of ISIS that we see some problems with Islam.

It is because of the Hezbollah, the Taliban, Al-Qaeda, and the terrorist-producing governments of several Islamic countries.

It is because of brutal attacks on school buses full of children, the assault on the Achille Lauro cruise ship, the use of airplanes as bombs, and attacks on nightclubs in Europe and here.

It is because Islam considers women less valuable than property, because little girls are mutilated and sold off to pedophiles before they are even 10 years old. And old women who talk to or look at men or even have the misfortune of being raped can be stoned to death or beheaded for their “crime.”

Try as I might, I can’t think of another religion that is responsible for so much human misery and death. When was the last Christian terrorist event? Buddhist? Sikh? Hindu? I can’t think of any.

Aside from Islam, only one other group routinely commits terrorist acts, and that is the left. And most of them, especially the ones prone to violent terrorist, are atheists.

Once upon a time, you could go to the airport and just show a ticket and get on a plane. You could go to public events without having your bags searched. The reason we can’t do these things any more is because of Islamic terrorism—no other reason.

Fix your religion, sweety, purge it of its evil and violent ways, and maybe the rest of us will welcome you into the fold of civilized humanity.


29 posted on 06/16/2016 3:10:04 AM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

It is really simple: Renounce Sharia and Islam OR deport. Islam is not compatible with modern civilizations, especially not with the US. The evil of Islam has no place anywhere today. The sooner we and everyone recognizes this, the sooner we can have an honest discussion about what to do with it here and everywhere.


30 posted on 06/16/2016 3:10:46 AM PDT by Reno89519 (Like herpes, Cruz can always flare up again. Treat with Trump.)
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

Good they’re complaining. Because non-Muslim Americans are beginning to get it. We can only hope America is becoming an inhospitable place to practice Islam. Should be our goal. It is necessary that “moderate” Muslims suffer some of the consequences.

Because Islam advocates for Sharia law, it ceases to be a religion anyway. Becomes an instrument of sedition.


31 posted on 06/16/2016 3:13:39 AM PDT by wayoverontheright (a falling camel attracts many knives.......)
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

September 11 murderers: Islamic
Beltway murderers: Islamic
London Tube bombers: Islamic
Spanish Train bombers: Islamic
Taliban: Islamic
Al Qaeda: Islamic
ISIS: Islamic
Beslan murderers: Islamic
Paris Murderers (Charlie Hebdo): Islamic
LAX murderers: Islamic
Boston bombers: Islamic
Fort Hood murderer: Islamic
San Bernardino murderers: Islamic
Paris Murderers (concert): Islamic
Orlando murderer: Islamic


32 posted on 06/16/2016 3:22:22 AM PDT by NorthMountain (A plague o' both your houses.)
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

Mohammid is the only role model for mooselimbs.
A true Muslim must live his life as Mohammid did, to please their moon god.
ISIS is the closest example of conducting yourself as Mohammid did. Al Azhar University confirms the statement.

If you do not live your life as Mohammid did, you are not a true Mooselimb, and expose yourself to death at the hands of a mooslimb true believer working to cleanse the world of evil.

Therefore, special snowflake, you are not actually a mooselimb and do not have to worry about that perceived backlash


33 posted on 06/16/2016 3:27:07 AM PDT by Steven Tyler
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

We need to bring back a Mister Rogers type to teach the basics to these morons.

“Can you say Radical IslamicTerrorist? Sure! Try it now”


34 posted on 06/16/2016 3:30:49 AM PDT by Steven Tyler
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To: faithhopecharity

I hope EVERY mooselimb in the world is getting a little edgy.


35 posted on 06/16/2016 3:35:17 AM PDT by Joe Boucher (Go Trump, Give em hell BABY.)
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

How many Muslims have been beat up compared to how many innocents have been killed by Muslims?


36 posted on 06/16/2016 3:51:56 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

Having a logical conclusion about islam is infamy; murdering in the name of islam is nobility. Their objection is that their future slaves are islamophobic because they do not surrender.

We are not “islamophobic” we are anti-islam and contra-muslim. If we must be on a side of the fence, that is the sane side of the fence to be on.

If someone says they are a “moderate” or a “patriotic muslim”, inform them they may be anti-islamic but in denial. Take a weekend to think about it and decide your uniform. A prophet of slaves or the commander of free men.


37 posted on 06/16/2016 3:56:50 AM PDT by Ketill Frostbeard ("Go not a step from your door unarmed, travel armed for war, you may at any time need a spear." ODIN)
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

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

No, its because they follow a death cult


38 posted on 06/16/2016 3:56:53 AM PDT by 48th SPS Crusader (I am an American. Not a Republican or a Democrat)
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

>>“Being a Muslim in America today is getting harder and I am worried that it will get worse,”

Good.

Drop your hateful, totalitarian, misogynistic creed. Kick it to the curb. Become an American.

You can’t believe in he Constitution and Sharia both, plain and simple. It is past time for the American people to wake,up to this.


39 posted on 06/16/2016 4:02:35 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: LegendHasIt

In my former line of work, I spent some time in sharia controlled countries.

These Americans who support muslims have NO idea what muslims have waiting for them.


40 posted on 06/16/2016 4:02:58 AM PDT by Cowgirl of Justice
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