The essay is very powerful but so is the article. I think that they are both equally powerful. The essay focuses on what it’s like for an average teen and how people around her act and or judge people and not just her. The essay talks about that she doesn’t care what people think about her or what she believes in. Also talks about how women are being degraded, also put down and exploited wrongly. It makes you see the difference between their religions affect their children to ours. Where as the news articles talk about the unfairness of how these people are being treated as well as how unjust this really is. That some people don’t care what you wear or look like, where others will do anything to stop people from acting or believing that of which they do. Some people think that they should be treated like any other person as is their right but go unheard. Deafened by conservative prides and stomachs greed. As their thoughts in the past, (Some of) these men and women are unable to change and unwilling to learn.



The essay is powerful because it tells you what it’s shows you in third person what she sees and how. She tells you what it is like to have people whisper and talk behind her back. She says, that because she wares a hijab people thinks that she’s going to either kill people or doesn’t have any rights and forced to ware it. She and many women wares a hijab for their own personal beliefs and does not care what people think or wish to believe though the facts are in front of them. All she really wants is that for people to respect her believes and treat her like any other person with out being judged. She wrote that people should only be judged after you meet and talk to them, and gotten to know them. People shouldn’t judge people by how they dress, talk, or from what kinds of life styles or beliefs they prefer.



It is the truth of how the world has put up standers for women that are degrading and impossible to accomplish and for those women who happily and bravely wear hijabs, in the essay Sultana Yusufali wrote: ‘It is a myth that women in today’s society are liberated. What kind of freedom can there be when a women cannot walk down the street without every aspect of her physical self being “checked out”? When I wear a hijab I feel safe from all of this. I can rest assured that no one is looking at me and making assumptions about my character from the length of my skirt. There is a barrier between me and those who would exploit me. I am first and foremost a human being, equal to any man, and not vulnerable because of my sexuality.’ Parents always try to protect their daughters yet let them ware such clothing’s that have the opposite effect. And they them selves are just as bad as any for judging people for looks examples would be kids wearing fall or spring out fits in the snowy weathers or hardly wearing any thing in the summer. The worst is the judging of their children’s relationships mainly though their boy/girl-friends they judge mainly on the person’s looks, then manners and age, then usually grades and parents/life style though not always like this but some do.



The article talks about how people are being harshly, mistreated and discriminated against. This article about the soccer team with the girl who wares the hijab and that if she wanted to participate in the tournament she would have to remove her hijab because it was a “unsafe” for her and the other players when it really couldn’t really hurt anyone or thing but the people still said it was unsafe it could hang or hurt people when it was safely wrapped tight around her head unless she purposely undid it or something to make it unsafe and she didn’t so she and her team left the tournament until they change the rule about wearing hijab’s. There was a council meeting to put changing the rule to a vote but the majority voted against it. The rule was made to stop some people from playing and or participating in that sport and creating inequality between races showing preferences to one over the others just like they have other rules to stop others in different sports and groups.



So I conclude that the articles are equally powerful just on different parts of the same situation. We are all a like, we all have brains and a heart, that beats blood through our body. Some people may not realize that the only true difference in humans is in our souls and belief’s. But that’s not bad thing, neither is this religion it’s actually a lot like ours they believe killing is a sin, that its wrong and they all have a dress code and believe that we should not reveal too much of our body in all religions so they are similar. So why do we act like a certain religion is so wrong or bad we had this fight in the 1800s and we all know how bad that turned out we are not as ignorant as they were and as the free country we are. Canada is a free country and her Canadians have each their own rights to believe in or wish on whatever they want to. And with that freedom come’s the responsibility of being okay or at least keeping your comments about the religions or cultures you don’t understand or dislike and don’t agree with to your self.

By: Kristine A.S. Rose.