After US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump called for a ban on Muslims entering the United States in response to the shooting rampage by two miscreants in San Bernardino, California, there have been a growing number of hate crime and harassment cases reported against the Muslim community in the US.
While President Barack Obama called on Americans not to discriminate against Muslims, a young American woman, who is half Iranian took to Facebook to share and encounter that she and many others in the Muslim community experience in America.
Sharareh Delara Druryw, was born in Boston, Massachusetts and has lived in the US her whole life. On Facebook, she says her father was a 9/11 survivor and her "ancestor Hugh Drury who "helped contribute to the building blocks of what would become the United States of America" is buried in the "oldest graveyard in Boston".
Recently, while Druryw was on a Chicago bus on her way back from work, she writes "A man screamed at me. Called me a sand ni**er. Told me I was the problem. That I need to get the f*** out of his country."
"I may have been wearing my scarf higher on my head than usual because it was cold out. I may have somehow looked suspicious listening to Spotify. I am half Iranian, so maybe it was my skin or my eyes," she says. Adding that she tried to calmly tell him to back off while he kept screaming at her. "Then this man spits at me. A man in a suit and tie. Like anyone else I'd see. He spits at me and looks at me with these regular eyes now filled with anger and tells me to get the f*** off the bus, do what I'm told, because this isn't my country. This isn't my place."
Druryw said that people only decided to help her after she screamed back at him, which got the attention of the bus driver who eventually kicked the man off the bus. After the incident, she wondered, "How many others out there got screamed at and told today this isn't their country, that they're worthless somehow, that they don't matter. How many?"
Druryw goes on to say," My mother's family (Iranian) came here to seek incredible opportunities and they found them. They've become doctors and entrepreneurs and athletes and writers and singers." Druryw concludes she is American."I'm here and I belong. I won't get off the bus."
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