A group of students are going around the US dressed as Muslims to see what happens. Quote:
"I expected people to say, 'What is this terrorist doing here? We don't want your kind here,' " said Woldt, a 22-year-old blue-eyed Catholic, recalling her anticipation before stepping into a local barbecue joint. "I thought I wouldn't even be served."
Instead, Woldt's experiment in social anthropology opened her own eyes. Apart from the initial glances reserved for any outsider who might venture through a small-town restaurant's doors, her experience was a pleasant one.
On her way to the bathroom, Woldt said, "One woman's jaw dropped, but then she smiled at me. ... That little smile just makes you feel so much better."
Have these people seen Borat? Have they never traveled around this country at all? Where do these college kids and professors come from? How can they possible have lived in this country for the past 20 plus years and think a hate crime is going happen if you put on a head scarf? Don't they realize this is the land of - we don't give a shit?
If they want a real experience, they ought to go to Saudi Arabia or Iran and try walking around without a headscarf. I'll set a stop watch and see who gets acid in the face first - the Muslim woman in America or the non-Muslim in Iran or Saudi Arabia.
The issue is not how America treats Muslims - especially Muslims living here. The issue is how Muslims treat each other, their neighbors, and in the extreme cases, the US and Israel.
If this is the future, I see the blind leading the blind and dumb.
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