Moin Ahmed
Professor Gabrielle
Educational Justice
1 September 2016
One sunny morning during winter 2015, my best friend Abdul and I were walking to our high school gym class at the Academy for Social Action. When we entered the gym, there were no students or teachers except a Spanish coordinator, Ms. Dominguez. She assisted Hispanics students who could not speak English; she also was a Latin dance teacher. She asked me many times to join her dance club, but I refused to do so because I am a Muslim and as a Muslim, we are not supposed to dance. Abdul and I both greeted her saying, “Hola, Buenos Diaz Senorita” and she replied to us, “Hola, Buenos Diaz, Senor”. As we Walked by, she got up from the side bench and stopped me. She waited till …show more content…
I stated, “Catholics are around the globe, as well as Muslims. Islam is the second largest religion in the world. In Islam there are combination of good and bad people like Catholics; in every single religion there are mixtures of perfect and imperfect people”. After I stated my thoughts, she was shocked to hear Islam as a religion, and she replied with a frail voice “Oh, Islam is a religion similar to Christian.” I walked away feeling desperate and exhausted. I told Markel the whole story and he started telling it to people; the news spread very quickly throughout the school. My highschool is very diverse and the administration is very serious about the racial/religious discrimination issues. For the students safety, my Assistant Principal begged me to write a complain letter, so someone else will not face the same tragedies in future. Even though I wrote the letter, I begged to my Assistant Principal to not to fire her because we are human and we all make mistakes, so she can learn from this experience and would be more careful in future. However, if I agreed with the Assistant Principal for firing her, then she would not learn something and she would have made the same mistake over and over again. To conclude, even
Professor Gabrielle
Educational Justice
1 September 2016
One sunny morning during winter 2015, my best friend Abdul and I were walking to our high school gym class at the Academy for Social Action. When we entered the gym, there were no students or teachers except a Spanish coordinator, Ms. Dominguez. She assisted Hispanics students who could not speak English; she also was a Latin dance teacher. She asked me many times to join her dance club, but I refused to do so because I am a Muslim and as a Muslim, we are not supposed to dance. Abdul and I both greeted her saying, “Hola, Buenos Diaz Senorita” and she replied to us, “Hola, Buenos Diaz, Senor”. As we Walked by, she got up from the side bench and stopped me. She waited till …show more content…
I stated, “Catholics are around the globe, as well as Muslims. Islam is the second largest religion in the world. In Islam there are combination of good and bad people like Catholics; in every single religion there are mixtures of perfect and imperfect people”. After I stated my thoughts, she was shocked to hear Islam as a religion, and she replied with a frail voice “Oh, Islam is a religion similar to Christian.” I walked away feeling desperate and exhausted. I told Markel the whole story and he started telling it to people; the news spread very quickly throughout the school. My highschool is very diverse and the administration is very serious about the racial/religious discrimination issues. For the students safety, my Assistant Principal begged me to write a complain letter, so someone else will not face the same tragedies in future. Even though I wrote the letter, I begged to my Assistant Principal to not to fire her because we are human and we all make mistakes, so she can learn from this experience and would be more careful in future. However, if I agreed with the Assistant Principal for firing her, then she would not learn something and she would have made the same mistake over and over again. To conclude, even