Muslim Discrimination Cases

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According to ABC News, Police have investigated tons of hate crime against Muslims on college campuses. Recently, on November 10, 2016, a student that attended San Diego University in California was attacked and discriminated against because of her Muslim religion. The student was reported wearing a hijab. It is also sated that the perpetrator 's intent was to attack her religious faith and to put emphasis on the election of Donald Trump (Kunzelman, 2016). Despite the hateful and cruel behavior of the perpetuators, the women made it out of the situation safely. In addition, a second incident was reported when another Muslim student at San Jose University was attacked in nearly choked to death and he pulled her headscarf off (Kunzelman, 2016). …show more content…
The perpetrator 's judge victims based on individuality or difference in views. This incident depicts many unfair and discriminatory practices among each of these Muslim women. As seen in the article, each three hate crimes can be categorize as Religious discrimination . Religious discrimination involves treating a person unfavorably because of his or her religious beliefs, in which these perpetrator 's took action in. For example, the women who was attacked in the parking lot of San Diego University was not only attacked but the man stole her car keys and stole her vehicle, which was later reported missing (Kunzelman, …show more content…
The author of this article wants us as American 's to understand the "cry for help" that America needs. This world is falling apart because of everybody 's ignorance. These three heartless attacks on Muslim women was an unnecessary act, which could 've resulted in death. Religion and ethnicity is portrayed in a negative way in which being Muslim is not accepted and believing in what you have the right to believe in is not acceptable. The dominant factor behind these crimes were because these girls were Muslims. These attackers specifically targeted Muslims. However, one the main lesson that I 've learned is that people are showing their true colors ever since Donald ran for president. Also, I learned that women are less respected and are more like to be a victim of a hate

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