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Muslims Striving for Rights
Original Story from //Startribune.com: [|Muslim group asks for look into harassment claims]//

I found this story on the Star Tribune web page which gives out breaking news updates and local news updates around the Twin Cities, Minnesota. The Star Tribune press is usually a informative source for updates and is [|Politically biased]. I choose this article for the assignment because it astonished me that young, innocent children would be left in the cold winters of Minnesota, waiting for their buses to not pick them up, but be left out waiting and discriminated against by even teachers at school.

In the article, it explains how Somali students are being treated unfairly and harshly towards even though they only make up 10 percent of the district's population of 10,000 students. The civil rights director for CAIR-MN, Zahra Aljabri is trying to consult with the school departments to end the discrimination among these ethnic groups at school. I think the media has a lot to do with why these individuals are being discriminated against ever since the terrorist attacks. Events from Apollo High School in St. Cloud have cases of [|teachers telling students to spray air refreshners when a muslim student enters a room]. Aljabri says to Star Tribune, " The steps the school is doing...aren't working on their own." knowing this, leaves the hopeless Muslims to suffer still today at their schools.

Stereotypes are being placed on these people for the wrong reasons and i think more should be done to prevent these things from happening. Do these schools not see the reflection of what they are doing to these Muslim children, the same as how is was in the 1950's between the blacks and whites? It saddens me that these students have to go through these kind of harassments and I myself, a minority, can relate to how the children may feel.