Muslim teens push back against 9/11 bullying

Sep 08, 2011 11:14

"At first, Sarah O’Neal thought the older boy’s comment was directed at the towel she was carrying to water polo practice.

'What are you looking at towel-head?' he said. And that’s when it sunk in.

A freshman at Wilcox High School in Santa Clara, Calif., at the time, O’Neal, now 16, marched over and demanded the boy feel her Islamic headscarf. 'Does that feel like a towel to you?' O’Neal snapped..."

-- Full article at the Washington Post

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