Topic > Analysis of “I Stayed to Fight” by Mona Eltahawy

I had no idea they were treated so badly after the attacks. I had no idea that our government would round them up like a herd of cattle and interrogate them. Eltahawy had said that people had tried to burn nearby mosques and that Muslim Americans were reportedly harassed in the streets. I find it quite nauseating that we treat our own people like this. My attitude towards American Muslims is just that. They are Americans and have all the same rights as others who live here. I see no difference when it comes to people of different races, religions or sexual orientations, if you are nice to me, I will be nice too. People should be treated as human beings, regardless of color, gender, and so on. There are rude and mean people in every ethnicity, no matter what you believe, there will always be a bad apple in the