MUSLIM FAMILY TERRORIZED IN GEORGIA

MUSLIM FAMILY TERRORIZED IN GEORGIA - TOP
Matthew Rothschild, The Progressive, 6/1/06

http://www.progressive.org/mag_mc000106

Sania Karman says it all began at Wal-Mart.

The 27-year-old mother of four lives in Douglasville, Georgia, about 45 minutes from Atlanta. Born in Pennsylvania, she describes herself as "white, blond hair, blue eyes." She says she's been a Muslim for about five years, and she's married to a Muslim man who came here from Pakistan.

She shops at her local Wal-Mart several times a week, she says, and it was there that she began noticing the hostility of other customers.

Over the course of several months, she says she saw "that snide look" when she was at the store with her young children and her husband, since they are all darker than she is.

And she says some people would comment on her Muslim attire and ask, "How could you wear something like that?" (MORE)