Being a Muslim, and minority

I am very grateful to have been able to experience being the minority in the United States of America. I am a Muslim and I'm proud of it, though I can't say I'm a very good Muslim but I am trying to be a better Muslim every day, inshaAllah.

At where I studied, that is the lovely bricked RIT, all students are allowed to practice their religions without anyone saying anything. I don't know, maybe it's because of we were in college so people have quite a bit respect for freedom of speech and religion practice? But I'm thankful that we were able to perform our prayers anywhere we want, in the libraries, or even at the staircase areas when we were in the middle of a class and had to sneak out to pray, and that's the only place available, as in no non-Muslim to stop and see what we were doing.

Alhamdulillah.

Later this morning, I read an article. Let me quote some of it.

It has long been established that schools have the discretion to dismiss students to off-premises religious instruction, provided that schools do not encourage or discourage participation in such instruction or penalize students for attending or not attending. Similarly, schools may excuse students from class to remove a significant burden on their religious exercise, where doing so would not impose material burdens on other students.

Still, the attempts of some American schools to accommodate the prayer needs of Muslim students has been met with resistance from parents of other faiths.

Last year a Green Bay, Wis., school district was criticized for allowing Muslim students, many of them recent immigrants, to use empty classrooms to pray during breaks, according to The Christian Post. And the mere possibility that some Muslim students would be getting similar accommodations in a district in Pennsylvania was enough to draw protest from parents, according to The Patriot-News. 

Though it's not big, I think it's a great step that people, even if not all, are slowly trying to accept Islam and the Muslims. However, the article was posted on Huffington's fb page and received quite an 'outrage' lol. It's not really a shocking to me because I know how ignorant an American can be and how outspoken they are and how people can be a very brave keyboard warrior. Heh heh here are some of the responses to this article. Click to get a better view.