Reshma Memon Yaqub's 'You People Did This'

In Reshma Memon Yaqub’s “You People Did This,” the fall of the twin towers had just occurred, although worried about her family and Muslim Community she’s very worried about all the mayhem that will be caused by this. She doesn’t want Muslims to have this burden of being held accountable for the attack and wants Americans to understand that violence isn’t Islam. The real jihad (struggle to please god) isn’t the Muslims, it’s the Americans struggling though the hard times, and it’s the Americans trying to blame others for their own concerns. In this essay, Yaqub uses several modes to help get her purpose across. She uses example to show the many issues and causes of the Muslims being victimized. She starts off by showing one example of how Muslims got victimized, after the Oklahoma City bombing of a federal building, a seven-month pregnant Muslim women got attacked by thugs and had to bury her unborn child next to the victims of the bombing because the Muslims go blamed for the bombing when it was a Christian man. Yet Muslims got victimized and got attacked just for someone else’s faults. Yaqub goes then into other examples how Muslims are terrorized in their own personal life, with herself getting …show more content…
It informs the reader to understand the Muslim side of when they get victimized for American downfalls. The modes play in well with informing, giving many examples to provide what happen to these people how they get victimized and it shows the side of the story of how Muslims and Arabs have to live with it. This essay is also a bit persuasive, with an audience of Americans who have victimized Muslims or may have had to feel they gave that forced sympathy. She basically persuades the people by saying, this is how it is to be a Muslim when we get victimized and this is how it’s needed to be seen, and Americans need to understand that Muslims and Arabs are not the victims in these