Sallie Le

Dr. Miss

04/04/2017

Critical Inquiry Questions: Is it any different for Muslim students wanting to graduate any

different from other students wanting to graduate? Does discriminating Muslims break them

down or make them more powerful?

Ghamari-Tabrizi, Behrooz. Loving America and Longing for Home: Ismail al-Faruqi and the

Emergence of the Muslim Diaspora in North America. (2004):ArticleFirst. Print.

This article by Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi talked about how Muslims are still strongly

connected with their place of origin even moving to the West. This article expresses the

compromise that the Muslims are willing to make while residing in a new host society

and how the host society is very hostile and bitter with the new addition to the American

family. Even though this does not necessarily answer my question, I still think this source

is still helpful to realize that majority of the Muslim community is still an undivided

whole. This also gives insight on how they view the host society and how the host society

treats them on the receiving end; with that information, this can be inferred to the Muslim

students in the same foundation as they are a part of the Muslim society.

Belhaj, Abdessamad. Growing up Muslim: Muslim college students in America tell their life

stories (2016). Print.

Since this is a more recent article, this will be more politically and socially current with

the issues that Muslim have and still is facing in America. This article explains the
identity crisis of the second-generation Muslim and how school and the external factors

of growing up in a society that their religion was not an American native of clash with the

Western norms. These Muslim students explain what they are facing and conflicted upon

with the constant negotiation and choices they have to make that is right with their

families and also with society.