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This document is a first-person account written by a Muslim woman describing how she feels oppressed in western society. She states that western media portrays Muslim women as oppressed by their religion and men, but she feels oppressed by the accusations of the society she lives in. She fears being attacked for wearing a hijab and being associated with militant groups despite not supporting them. As a Muslim woman, she has faced verbal abuse and has had her freedom of speech and human rights restricted by the society that judges her based on the actions of a few extremists, not her own beliefs.

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Imitation 1

This document is a first-person account written by a Muslim woman describing how she feels oppressed in western society. She states that western media portrays Muslim women as oppressed by their religion and men, but she feels oppressed by the accusations of the society she lives in. She fears being attacked for wearing a hijab and being associated with militant groups despite not supporting them. As a Muslim woman, she has faced verbal abuse and has had her freedom of speech and human rights restricted by the society that judges her based on the actions of a few extremists, not her own beliefs.

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Mariam Husain

AP Lang and Comp


Tressie Norton
22 February, 2015

I am a Resolute Muslim Woman

These days we hear a lot about Muslims in our media. We hear about "terrorist organization" this
or "lawless extremists" that. Western media is all about "educating" the public on the "current terrors that
Islam has to offer today." According to most western media, Muslim women are oppressed, abused, and
robbed of their rights by their religion and men who follow it. I am a resolute Muslim woman and I am
here to say, I am oppressed, I am abused, and I am robbed of my rights each and every day, solely by the
society that accuses me of such atrocities in the first place.
I am a resolute Muslim woman who wakes up every morning with the fear that when I leave my
home, I will be spit on and stomped on, not by Muslim men, but by the society in which I live. The
society that associates me with a few bad people whom I have never met and whom I hate much more
than they. I am a resolute Muslim woman who fears that one day she will come home to hear that her
sister or mother was attacked simply because she chooses to cover her hair for her Creator, just as nuns
and other religious women do. I am a resolute Muslim woman who lives in a society that assumes I
support the brutal actions of militants simply because they attempt to imitate my belief system. I am a
resolute Muslim woman who is oppressed by a society that degrades me and acknowledges me only for
how other people choose to conceptualize the worship of my Lord.
I am a resolute Muslim woman who has been subject to verbal abuse by people too ignorant to
perceive the concept that the actions of a few do not represent the beliefs of the 1.57 billion people who
merely share a single similarity. I am a resolute Muslim woman who condemns every crime ever
committed, but I shouldn't have to any more than the next person should because I do not associate
with criminals.

I am a resolute Muslim woman who has had my human rights stolen by the society in which I
live. I am a resolute Muslim woman who does not have freedom of speech, for if I were to state
something that my society does not agree with, I would be accused of being against that society. I would
be accused of being so simply due to the religion which I follow, when in actuality, I am so because I am
a resolute Muslim woman who is capable of forming my own thoughts. I am not so dependent that I must
simply mimic the "beliefs" I am told to by the media which runs my society.
I am a resolute Muslim woman who has been terrorized far more by the media-run society in
which I live than by any Muslim ever. It is unfair to label a people with these clichs, then punish them
for them. I am a resolute Muslim woman, understand me when I say: I am more scared of my society than
it is of me.

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