Each Other's Business

Eboo's article showed a very important point about religion. Religion can be very important for many people and it is a great deal of many people's life. However, even though there are differences in religious beliefs and even cultural aspects that are effected by religious beliefs, we should not forget that we are still part of a community. And as part of the community, we must build good bonds with each other, at the least not discriminate other people base on religious beliefs. Judging people base on religious beliefs can lead to many different negative result and we do not want negative things happening in a community where we live and have fun in. One of the most important things is that people will be misjudged because what they believed as a religious belief is not who they are but what they are. Basing judgements on what they are instead of who they are is very mean and will almost certainly lead to misjudgment. Secondly, judging people base on their religious beliefs is not getting to know them and people will fee insulted when judged only by their religious beliefs. Also, lastly, many people didn't choose to believe in certain religion but rather forced to or naturally adopted at birth through influence of family and or authority. Eboo wrote this article because he felt guilty during his high school life when he didn't disagree on religious discrimination. He felt really sorry when he didn't stand up for his jewish friend when he got bullied because he didn't think it was all that wrong. Eboo address two form of literary art, one being the Norman Rockwell painting and another being a poem by Gwendolyn Brooks. These two fine literary items very perfectly essence out the importance of not being bias about religion of different people.

Author's Attitude

The author doesn't assume the reader to know a lot about Islam because it is an newspaper article and it is meant for everyone to read and understand. This means that the writer can not assume people of all ages of all knowledge know certain knowledge. We can tell that the author did not assume we know a lot about Islamic culture and muslim because the author inform us about living as a muslim in America, Islam rituals, and even 911 which most people should know about. The author's attitude toward the subject, also known as the tone, is informing but is also a bit sad and frustrated by the fact that muslims are surrounded in discrimination  against them and after the 911 incident, Americans have bad impression on all muslims even though not all muslims are terrorists. The author want the readers to know more about muslim and not be scared of it because the author wants the reader to not be stereotype and discriminate against muslims and generalizing all muslim as terrorists. The author also want us to learn more about muslim because there are many muslims living in our community and we must know each other to live peacefully in harmony and be a big happy family. United States is built on freedom of religion and that means we should not discriminate people base on their religion. Also, the United States is called the Great Melting Pot because there are many people of different backgrounds living in America so we must not be hostile but embrace them as a big family.

Living Together

Almost every community is composed of different people with different background, whether it's difference in skin tone, culture, language, or religion. However, despite of the differences between each other, we still live in harmony in the same community. It's true that in some cases, different people fight each other and they have violent disputes that are settled with blood feud but still, there are many communities that lives in harmony. Take the United States for example; the US is one of the most diverse countries in the world regarding to race, culture, or religion, because the country is built on freedom. The US is often referred to as a melting pot or a cultural mosaic because it has such a diverse culture. A miniature example would be a school, especially in international schools, where people from all over the world can attend the school therefore adding more cultural difference into the school. The bad side of living together with people of different background is that the minorities are often discriminated for being different than the majority of the people and it can really hurt the feelings of the people discriminated upon. Also living in harmony can cause trouble and bad racism. For example, because of the Al-qaeda and the 911 terrorist attack, muslim are depicted and seen as being bad and evil and seen as the same people as the people that performed the terrorist attack when in reality, only about 1% of muslim are terrorists.