Paris

Today in class, we talked about the terrorist attacks in Paris, France. I think it's extremely sad, and such an awful thing that happened to these people. I wish that there was something I could do to help them, but the only thing I can do is pray for them. We live in such a sick world, it's awful to see something like this happen to them. This is like Paris's 9/11. But another thing that is awful is discrimination against Muslims. Just because some of them are bad does not mean they are all sick people. I read this social experiment on Twitter where an American girl put a hijab on her head and went to the mall to experience first-hand discrimination.  She said that people totally ignored her: cashiers, vendors, random citizens. She said that she was in one store and a little girl looked at her then asked her mom, "Mommy, is that a terrorist?" And the mom glared at the girl and grabbed her daughter's hand and pulled her out of the store. Just because this girl wore a hijab, she got treated differently. That makes me so upset because not all Muslims are bad. People need to stop stereotyping.