[Muslim Mom]

How many of you have been watching the news over the last week...because I simply can't stand any more Muslim bashing in the press. Here are just a very few examples from today:

1. Yesterday on Fox News' Dayside, panelists Michael Gross, a constitutional law attorney, and conservative radio host Mike Gallagher debated whether profiling is the answer to fighting terror. As Newshounds first noted, Gallagher argued, "It's time to have a Muslims check point line in American airports and have Muslims be scrutinized. You better believe it. It is time."

What will be next? Wearing a crescent moon on our jackets? Internment camps until the war on terror is over? I think some people in this country, especially am talk radio folks, have forgotten Nazi Germany and World War II.

2. The taunts exploded in Dhuha Hannah's ears.

"Drop the bomb!" "Drop the bomb!" Hannah remembers two men yelling at her, as they cruised past her in a pickup while she was waiting to pick up her 15-year-old granddaughter at King High School on Friday afternoon.

She was wearing her hijab, or headscarf, when the men put a screaming police siren on top of the truck and began hurling hateful comments, Hannah said.

"For someone to imply, because I'm wearing a hijab, that I'm toting a bomb," Hannah trailed off. "It's ludicrous."

The New York-born woman said she lowered her eyes, not wanting to provoke reaction. But she wished she would have taken note of the license plate number.

It was the first time anyone made such comments in 17 years of living in Tampa, she said.

How many of you cover your hair? I do and so I guess no one would need to ask me to wear a crescent on my shirt. I sometimes do feel vulnerable and I sometimes do try to use my "mother eyes" and see behind me if I'm out in publc.

3. A Montgomery County man running for office who happens to be Muslim. He says he has become a target, not for his stance on the issues, but because of his religion.

On Saturday, a man sat next to his sign that read, 'Islam sucks.'

It was written and displayed in bold print in front of Saqib Ali's Gaithersburg home and campaign headquarters. Ali is running for the Maryland House of Delegates.

"I felt like he was intimidating and trying to menace me and my family, similar to when people burned crosses in someone's front yard. I think it was the exact same message."

The man carrying that sign and wearing a t-shirt that read "this mind is an Allah-free zone" has been identified as Timothy Truitt of Montgomery Village. Though Ali believes this was an isolated incident, the Council on American-Islamic Relations says anti-Muslim sentiment can be seen nationwide.

"Everything from hate crimes to mosque vandalism to drive-by shootings," says Arsalan Iftikhar, of CAIR.

You see, I don't have anything to do with terrorism, I don't know anyone who is involved in illegal activities, but I am getting tired of feeling as though the rest of America thinks differently about me simply because of my faith. There 1.3 billion Muslims in the world and America is blaming all of them for the actions of a few crazy, disaffected idiot zealots who don't even practice Islam as a faith, but as a political ideology that not acceptable to 99.9% of the world's Muslims. I don't recall hearing about any Christian-Fascists after Timothy McViegh was caught, or Irish-Fascists when the IRA was actively bombing London buses and neighborhoods. Somehow, because the majority of Muslims come from other parts of the world (mostly from S. Asia by the way), I think Americans are scared. We're always frightened of the unknown.
I'm an American with American heritage dating back before the 1850's and I am a Muslim, are you scared?