Not long time ago I have read the story in the New York magazine about "American Girl" - it was the about the life of young Arab girl in Brooklyn and it was pretty normal until she was being thrown in jail with her family after 9/11. Therefore, it had changed her idea of what it means to live in the U.S. For this week reading's I have a chance to read the whole story about what happened in jail and with her family.
In my opinion, Rasha and her family were thrown in jail because Our culture is racist and can't understand the difference between a radical Muslim terrorist and a normal American college student. The government probably used Arab-Americans as scapegoats, they attack peaceful law-abiding Arabs just because they look sort of like our image of terrorists. The government wants to create the illusion that they are protecting their citizens and showing to us that they are doing something not just wasting our tax money. Unfortunately, they are violating the basic human rights, torturing people in prisons and detection camps.
Rasha photographed at home in Bay Ridge.
This story is referring to the documentary movie "The Road to Guantanamo" which was about three British young males who spent over two years in military prison for no justifiable reason. It turns and abstract debate about human rights and the Geneva Conventions into horrible experience of lived injustice: What if you were rounded up with friends on the eve of your wedding; shipped to an American airbase to be shackled, beaten, and interrogated; and after that sent without trial into a cage in Cuba?
Here is the trailer of the movie:
In my opinion, Rasha and her family were thrown in jail because Our culture is racist and can't understand the difference between a radical Muslim terrorist and a normal American college student. The government probably used Arab-Americans as scapegoats, they attack peaceful law-abiding Arabs just because they look sort of like our image of terrorists. The government wants to create the illusion that they are protecting their citizens and showing to us that they are doing something not just wasting our tax money. Unfortunately, they are violating the basic human rights, torturing people in prisons and detection camps.
(Photo: Jessica Roberts)
This story is referring to the documentary movie "The Road to Guantanamo" which was about three British young males who spent over two years in military prison for no justifiable reason. It turns and abstract debate about human rights and the Geneva Conventions into horrible experience of lived injustice: What if you were rounded up with friends on the eve of your wedding; shipped to an American airbase to be shackled, beaten, and interrogated; and after that sent without trial into a cage in Cuba?
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