Challenges Of Muslim In America

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The main Challenges that faced by Muslims in America and Europe is to prove to others that they are not terrorist and have no hate toward America or Europe. Many Muslims complain that they get attacked by non-Muslim because many non-Muslims believe that all Muslims are terrorist and should go back to where they came from even though many of these Muslims were raised or born in America or Europe. Another challenge would be the fact that many Muslim women including myself face is the fact that we have less opportunities to get a job and get attacked in many public places because we wear the hijab. sadly my kids are growing up now and they have witnessed people attacking me verbally which at first was shocking to them because they never knew that,

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