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<\/p>\nI attend the Leila Fadel event about the reporting on Muslims In the American Media. This was a very moving talk. She documented much of Indian oppression. She won many awards, one being a Gracie award for a single mother in Tunisia and lost her children to ISIS. She says great journalism captures the moments in time. When she got back from the Middle East, she was writing about oppression and horrific events through communities in the Middle East. Her job now revolves around telling stories about the diversity of her country, but she says that it is overwhelming because this is about a culture that deals with a lot and there is so much to say. She says that Muslims have a bad stereotype when it comes to what people think of them. This is an issue since there is more hate in the U.S. nowadays than there has been in the recent past. She did a six-part series on NPR and national geographic about what it means to be Muslim in today\u2019s society. We then heard a Bosnian girls\u2019 choir and it was very beautiful to hear what they sing. Their parents would tell them they can\u2019t wear a scarf in this society since the stereotypes have gotten so bad.<\/p>\n
We listened a podcast from two Muslim women in their twenties about Muslim identity. They use their podcasts to talk about what is most important to them like race, leadership, and equality. They started talking about how they were getting bullied in school because of their religion, which was disgusting about how kids were treating them and what they were saying and writing about them. At a school, people are supposed to feel safe, but at this school, some kids were saying how the Muslim students were dirty and going to bomb the school and they see them as more of animals rather than humans. However, they also explained how Islamic citizens are not the only ones who are marginalized. There are other people who are Jewish or a part of the LGBTQ community who are marginalized. This has been a large issue for as long as I have been alive.<\/p>\n
She then explained about how we can\u2019t make a person\u2019s religion and a bad event and take that as a norm. She goes to people\u2019s homes and summer camps and events where they practice and pray and reaches out about certain attacks and how they view the hate and stereotypes they view around the world or view personally. She recited a line that someone said, \u201cpost 911 there is more of an effort to demonize Muslims\u201d that people are invalid regarding Muslims identity. She said one of the most shocking questions she was asked was are people going to want to be Muslim in 10 years. Even though it\u2019s shocking it\u2019s an interesting question that people are even going there because the hate is so horrific in society, and how the power of storytelling any be deteriorating. That it is not storytelling, but it can be the voice of one person to display hate and provide facts that can blast an entire community of individuals. She explains that an accurate story and the most powerful stories are those that people will let you into their lives in the times that they hurt from or affect them personally. Overall, it was a very powerful event, and I was very happy I went.<\/p>\n
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