![]() This novel weaves together a three-generational Palestinian-American immigrant to first-generation experience. Oh but wait … this isn’t a novel about Muslims in America. ![]() ![]() This may just be the point, our community has to fight harder for our humanity to be recognized, and fiction or not, what is put out into the media either increases our humanity or further dehumanizes us. ![]() East Brunswick, New Jersey records a hian incident with a high school Muslim girl being beaten and called a “terrorist”. Community members had to crowd a board meeting in order to demand action. The NYPD failed to investigate the incident as a hate crime, until she (the victim) pursued it herself. Fatoumata Camara was beaten when she stepped off a bus in the Bronx, while getting jumped religious slurs were yelled at her. In recent months it seems as though attacks against visibly Muslim young women have increased. Arguably, since 2016 it has been much worse for minorities in America, including Muslims. ![]() Right now, in 2019 being a minority and a visibly Muslim woman, we bear the brunt of Islamophobia in way that we have not seen since 9/11. Even though I wanted to be here for this book I couldn’t. ![]()
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