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“Zero Tolerance: Racial Harassment in School Worsens for Scapegoated Students” By Jennifer Emiko Boyden from the New York Amsterdam News December 26, 2002
Life for Najwa Ahmed, a 17-year-old Muslim student in San Francisco, has been getting significantly worse. ...
These acts of hate have caused many Arabs and Muslims to disregard their cultural beliefs for their own safety. ... The hate crimes don’t stop with the students. ...
In California, the number of anti-Islamic hate crimes rose from five in 2000 to 87 in 2001. “Anti-other ethnicity/national origins hate crimes, which include the crimes directed at Arabs and Middle Easterners, increased from 99 in 2000 to 501 in 2001.”
“The San Francisco Chapter of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee recorded 134 hate motivated incidents in the Bay area between September 14, 2001 and October 30, 2002.
Approximate Word count = 609
Approximate Pages = 2.4
(250 words per page double spaced)
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