Muslim Woman In Today's America Summary

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The article “What It Means to Be a Muslim Woman in Today's America” by Reem Nasr, explores what it’s like to be Muslim in America at this current age. It shows how women are questioned for their clothing and their religion. The article also informs the reader how people badmouth muslims by grouping them with terrorist even though they have no evidence to back their statements up. At this age, many muslims go through so much work just to integrate with society by working while at the same time doing their best to ignore discrimination from society.

I have seen that both muslims and latinos such as myself are always being discriminated by those who think that they are better than us. We stand in the way of racism and have our own stereotype.

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