"I call bullshit," says the grumpy, older student in the front. She's looking in my direction, but she isn't making eye contact. She then goes into an analogy about what if a man doesn't want to remove his ball cap or his sunglasses for his driver's license picture.
"That has nothing to do with his religion," I respond. Honestly, I don't care whether the Muslim woman removes her hijab for her DMV picture or not. What I care about is that somehow 9/11 got pulled into this discussion as rationale for discrimination against Muslims. I hear Trump in the back of my head--in the voices of my fellow classmates. "You're going to punish an entire religion for the actions of a few individuals?"
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