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(RNS) — Americans from Muslim, Arab, Sikh, South Asian and other communities were suddenly subject to a torrent of suspicion and hate after 9/11, and that suspicion has been institutionalized by discriminatory government profiling and policies.
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I have been labeled If not for my religion Than what can it be?
असम: मोबाइल में ओवैसी का वीडियो निकला तो होटल स्टाफ ने कहा 'कट्टरपंथी'
असम: मोबाइल में ओवैसी का वीडियो निकला तो होटल स्टाफ ने कहा ‘कट्टरपंथी’
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Updated: October 15, 2018, 12:44 PM IST असम के गुवाहटी स्थित विवांता होटल मैनेजमेंट पर तीन युवकों ने बदसलूकी का आरोप लगाया है. युवकों का आरोप है कि उनके मोबाइल से लोकसभा सांसद असदुद्दीन ओवैसी का वीडियो निकलने पर होटल स्टाफ ने आपत्तिजनक टिप्पणी की और जेल भेजने की धमकी दी. ‘द हिंदू’ की रिपोर्ट के अनुसार, दिल्ली की…
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Trump calls for racial and religious profiling
On September 19 — hours before police arrested Ahmad Khan Rahami in connection to the bomb attack in NYC — Donald Trump went on Fox News to make the case for religious profiling.
"Our local police, they know who a lot of these people are," Trump said, referring to suspected terrorists living in the United States. "They are afraid to do anything about it because they don't want to be accused of profiling." The GOP presidential nominee then pointed to a controversial use of profiling abroad that he believes we should emulate.
Racial profiling is real and it's disgusting
So me, my mom and my brother just finished shopping at Walmart right? In front of us pushing her cart is a woman and her two kids. The women gets to the security lady first and has her receipt checked. This isn’t a new concept of course, and my mom grumbles in jest as she digs in her purse for our receipt that she just put away. She goes to hand it to the lady but she waves her away with an “Oh, you’re fine.” We leave the store and go to our car, and I see the lady and her kids going to theirs. Sounds a little random right?
But what if I told you that the woman was wearing a hijab? My family and I, who do not wear any kind of religious head scarves, were waved away. The woman, who was wearing one, was stopped.
Why weren’t we stopped? We could have stolen something or hidden unpaid things in bags. People who don’t wear religious attire are not less likely to commit crimes. It's unfair and wrong and gross to assume that someone is 'doing wrong' just by how they look/what they wear.
I try to maintain a cordial, friendly, accepting, and open attitude towards every one I come in contact with–regardless of gender, race, ethnicity, or religion. I will smile at a stranger, extend help when necessary, and welcome conversations or opportunities for meaningful connections. As someone who has endured years of pain, isolation, and loneliness, I realize that no act of kindness is ever small, and positive deeds have a ripple effect in lessening the collective suffering of humanity.
I have recently began exploring different cafes and coffee shops in my city. I love coffee and what better way to extend love to myself by adding joy-inducing rituals to my life?!
A few Saturdays ago, as I was sitting and enjoying my solitude and cup of dark roast coffee, a middle aged white man (late 40s or early 50s) sat on an empty seat by my table. I immediately thought it strange; there was no shortage of seats in the cafe, and even then, there were many others who were sitting alone and it made no sense for him to sit with an obviously minority woman, of the Muslim faith, in her twenties. Still, I decided to let it go and not interpret it with ill will. All of a sudden, he started conversing with me- he told me about the Santa parade that was taking place in a few minutes and how he was looking forward to it; as well, he spoke at length about the different members of the parade, and their roles (ex. elves, fireman). He also mentioned a few innocuous elements about Christianity and he insisted I should stick around longer to witness the parade. At this point, I’m slightly confused, wondering if he is purposely blinding himself from the fact that I am wearing hijab….
One of my weaknesses is I’m not direct in telling someone how I feel. I had no interest in what he was telling me, and would rather he let me be, but I simply acknowledged and tried to share in with his excitement about the parade.
When he left, I was relieved and took a sigh of breath.
This past Saturday, I went to the same coffee shop, and after a few hours there, lo and behold, he walked into the cafe. Again, of the entire coffee shop, he approached me and said: You look familiar, where do I remember you from?
I naively thought I should refresh his memory, and told him that we met on the day of the Santa parade. (It became clear to me later on that he was tactful and pretentious in everything he said, by pretending to ‘dumb, forgetful, and unknowledgeable.’)
What followed afterwards made me more uncomfortable than I can explain, and has left me in a vexed state. Despite the red flags and the constant protesting of my heart, I was too trusting and too kind when I should have been curt, firm, and told him to get lost.
I have many times heard of racial and religious profiling, but I think deep down, I didn’t anticipate that it would happen to me– a peaceful and law-abiding citizen.
He started bringing up the current assassination of the Shiite cleric in Saud Arabia, and said in the form of a question: it was done by the Wahhabbis, right? My natural disposition is that I’m quiet, but I caught myself feeling the need to inform his ignorance by saying: the state dictates such acts, irrespective of whether someone is Sunni or Shiite. (Mistake 1)
He asked if I was Shiite or Sunni, and I said: Sunni. (Mistake 2- I fell into the divisive labelling of Muslims).
He asked: If I went to mosques and which ones I went to. I answered: There are many mosques in our city. Have you been to any? (Of the whole experience, this is probably the only correct thing I did, At this point, I feel very uncomfortable but it still doesn’t hit me that he’s profiling me because of my visible religious identity.) He replies with: I have been to an open house at one of the mosques. I’ve read a book about Islam, and I’m currently studying the Baha'i faith.
He then asked for my name, and wanted to have it written down so he could 'remember me.’ And the worst part of this - despite the many red flags, the creepiness I felt from speaking to him, and the inconsistencies in his words - I gave him my first name, and he left with it written on a paper.
The more I think of what transpired, the more I realize I behaved unwisely and didn’t listen to my intuition.
It’s not so much that I have anything to hide; it’s more so that I voluntarily cooperated with someone who may have had an ill intent for me.
If we’re going to be fools and discriminate against refugees based on senseless generalizations, we might as well start conducting extensive background checks on all white people before allowing them into schools and movie theaters. And considering all the violence and terror nation states have brought to the world, countries should thoroughly vet all Americans, Europeans, Saudi Arabians, Turkish, Russians, Israelis (etc.) before admittance as well.
