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Friday, October 28, 2005 9:53 pm
Prejudice, racists.



Prejudice? Racists?

I watched the Oprah Winfrey show the other the day. That episode showed an American show called 30 Days, where people were to be in another person's shoes for 30 days.

One of the episode in the show was about a white, Christian man, David, who lived with a Muslim family. He had to follow whatever the Muslims do, their customs and everything. He had to wear what a Muslim man wear, he had to grow a beard, eat what the Muslims eat, pray 5 times a day, study the Qur'an, learn how to pray in arabic and basically just BE a Muslim for 30 days.

Then one part, the Muslim man, Shamael, the one David lives with, asked David to name 5 Muslim men he knew. And David answered, Osama Bin Laden, Saddam Hussein and etc. And Shamael was like, oh my god, they're all the people who are said to be involved in the terrorist attacks. What happened to Mohamed Ali, blah blah blah (and he named a few other good Muslims).

Then there's another part in the show where David, already with the beard and clothed in the Muslim's clothes with the songkok (the thing male muslims wear on their heads) and everything, went out to the white society and had to do a survey about Muslims and Islam or something like that. As I watched, I was super heart broken when they refused. Some were rude and didn't even look David in the eye. They were like, "I think I'll pass" or "No" or whatever. One even brought up the terrorist attacks, that stuff. And David answered him like, "What about the Oklahoma bombings?" (or something like that. i figured the oklahoma thing, it was white men who did it or something). So Oprah was like (i'm not quoting, just saying something like what she said). So anyway, Oprah was like, yea, the 911 attacks, you look down on Muslims, what about the oklahoma bombings? Do you look down on white men too?

Anyway, in the show, David learned a few stuff i guess and got a different perspective about the 911 attacks and everything. Well good for him. I'm proud of him that he went through with the show. I'm even more proud of the person who came up with the show. I'm also proud of Oprah. She's a great woman.

Yup. So now, Muslims are going to be forever connected and associated to the terrorists. I can't go anywhere in the world without having suspicious stares on me. Maybe even looks of hatred. They're probably thinking what I have under the clothes that I wear. They're just undergarments, honey.

What am I going to do? Studying overseas is like one of my wishes. But will I survive having people avoiding me? Looking down on me? Am I strong enough to go through it all? Can I succeed? Do I even have the courage to step on the plane and fly to my destination?

Hah.. can you imagine. I'm grocery shopping one day in England, lets say. Looking at this orange and accidentally dropped it. Hah.. Will people run, i wonder? Will there be policemen aiming pistols at me and saying "Put your hands in the air, Lady."? I'm saying all this sarcastically. Argh! I can't stand it anymore. Why do all these have to happen? WHY? This is depressing!