Tag Archives: Islam

The United States’ Response to Crime: Racial Bias is Alive and Well

BY: SAWYEH ESMAILI The United States has had the world’s highest incarceration rate since 2002.[1] A racialized perception of crime and a broken criminal justice system are behind the globe’s largest prison population. Our country’s response to crime and the media’s coverage of those who perpetrate it reflect the deeply ingrained racial bias of the […]

#IStandWithAhmed: A Case of Islamophobia or An Appropriate Reaction to School Safety Threats?

BY: CHANTELLE MELENDEZ On Monday, September 14th, 2015, Ahmed Mohamed, a fourteen-year-old freshman student at MacArthur High School in Irving, Texas, was handcuffed, detained, and subsequently suspended from school for constructing a homemade clock, which officials believed to resemble a bomb, and then bringing it to school.[1] Since then, Ahmed’s case has gained enormous attention; […]