Author's Note

In an early morning on September 11, 2001, a hijacked plane crashed into the World Trade Center's North twin tower, making that tower collapse on to the South Twin Tower at 9:03 am. Later on, there was two more attacks, when another hijacked plane crashed into the pentagon and where a plane crashed near Shanksville, Pennsylvania. After these attacks, thousands were killed and injured. A couple of weeks in the investigation, New York State officials and other federals discovered it was Arabic terrorist in a group called Al-Qaeda. One of the terrorists was a dangerous man named Osama Bin Laden who was hiding from American officials for several years now. Finally after figuring out who planned and did these attacks, the public soon found out and was calling Arabic Muslims names that i cannot say. Some citizens of New York feared that if they were next to a muslim, anything bad could happen to them which was a little strange for muslims to overcome most of the time.
I'm a muslim, and a few years ago, kids called me names, sometimes because some of their family members were killed in the 9/11 attacks. I felt ashamed and a couple of times embarrassed. I wanted to disappear if i could. But when time was passing, the name calling eventually stopped. So when doing this project, i wanted to write about what happen to me a few years ago, the discrimination of terrorists.In this story, a boy named Hassan is in a situation where 9/11 was yesterday, and when going to his school, he is found being bulled, his friends won't talk to him, nobody would. Later on, his friends feel bad for him, they want to see him get hurt anymore. Once more, they get along and Hassan is happy again, like what he use to be all along.

 Sources:

                 Zoll, Rachel. "U.S. Muslims Pay Heavy Toll." Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (Pittsburgh, PA). 13 Sep 2010: A.5. SIRS Researcher. Web. 09 Dec 2010.