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From: bes@tybalt.caltech.edu (Behnam Sadeghi)
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Subject: Re: Interesting Article....
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Date: 27 Jan 91 13:39:45 GMT
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In article <1991Jan19.064452.16917@wpi.WPI.EDU> Elizabeth S. Tallant writes:


>I have been truly disgusted with the behavior of SOME Moslem male classmates.
>Now, mind you some Moslem men are extremely shy and don't even look at any
>women when they speak.  Yet, they are those who treat Christian and Jewish
>women with the utmost disrespect.  They behave as if God put us on this
>earth for their perverted pleasures.  They chase us, whistle at us, and
>torment us as no Christian man ever has.  For this reason, many girls on
>campus are extremely prejudiced not just toward Moslems, but toward all
>Middle Eastern men.
>
>After these guys have finished humiliating us, they will then turn right
>around and treat Arab Moslem girls as if they are the most chase and pristine
>creatures around.
>
>Let me give you an example.  My best friend was born Moslem, yet she 
>practices Islam no more than I do.  One day, a group of Moslem men were
>cursing terribly in my presence.  One of them then asked me, "aren't
>you so-in-so's friend?"  
>"Yes"  I replied.
>"Well,"  he said, "People have been telling me not curse when I go into
>the store where she works because 'there is an Arab girl working there.'"
>Case and point.


I am sorry to hear about your personal problems with some of your
"Moslem" classmates.  If these people believe in Islam (which I
guess they don't), what you might want to do is to remind 
them of the Holy Qur`an's injunction for believing men
and women to cast down their gaze while meeting members of the opposite
sex and to guard their modesty.  If this doesn't work,  maybe you can
complain to your school's administration and cite them for sexual
harrassment.

Behnam Sadeghi