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NadiaYusufFirstEssay 9 - 08 Apr 2018 - Main.EbenMoglen
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| | | How can I be proud of my religion and proud of my background without being lumped into a perception of a religion that promotes hate? How can I educated those around me on the true meaning of Islam the way the majority of Muslims practice it? How can I be a successful attorney and represent my clients without the bias associated with my hijab affecting my clients? How do we, as a nation, get to a point in which I have to look in a mirror to see my hijab in order to remember that I am a Muslim? How can I just be Nadia, a Black Muslim American female? | |
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I think this is what you meant to make it. There are a few minor perfecting changes you should make. Ending on a series of questions, even if they are not all rhetorical, leaves the reader lost in a forest of your questions, which may even stop her from thinking about her own. Better to end with one question for the reader that with many for yourself, let's say.
But there isn't a great deal of revising for you to do, because you are asking a simple, powerful question; the simpler you keep it the more powerful it is.
We have to begin from the proposition that the problem of how you
can be Nadia, a Black Muslim American female, is not a problem that
Nadia is supposed to solve. America is supposed to solve it for
you, as it is supposed to solve that problem for all its free
people. When it doesn't, solving America's problem cannot be your
responsibility alone. Christian, Jewish and all other people have
to get into the act of solving America's problem with you. That
responsibility is not separate from the responsibility to protect
our republic. The persecution of Muslims in the US is one of the
most important signs of the urgency of the problem we all have.
Comments by UdokaO: | | | One of your questions: "How can I educated those around me on the true meaning of Islam the way the majority of Muslims practice it?" made me think. How did we begin to incorrectly associate Islam with hate? Society was looking for someone or something to blame after 9/11 and Islam was the convenient scapegoat. To educate those around about the true meaning of Islam, they must be willing to listen and learn which I believe is the even bigger issue. "For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible." | |
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< | I think that quote really gets to a lot of issues that is being faced today. When faced with evidence or proof that Islam is a non-violent religion some choose to only associate the actions of few to represent the whole. However, even way of thinking is only applied to black and brown bodies. Take the countless Christian white supremacists who have terrorized black communities. Society never blames Christianity the religion or even the evils of white supremacy. The scapegoat in these situations is the persons "mental health," or "challenging childhood," or the fact that they were "bullied." It's frustrating to see this narrative being played out over and over again. I wonder if it will ever stop. | >
> | I think that quote really gets to a lot of issues that is being faced today. When faced with evidence or proof that Islam is a non-violent religion some choose to only associate the actions of few to represent the whole. However, even way of thinking is only applied to black and brown bodies. Take the countless Christian white supremacists who have terrorized black communities. Society never blames Christianity the religion or even the evils of white supremacy. The scapegoat in these situations is the persons "mental health," or "challenging childhood," or the fact that they were "bullied." It's frustrating to see this narrative being played out over and over again. I wonder if it will ever stop. | | | \ No newline at end of file |
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