The Voice of Witness website is a very interesting and informative website. I opened the website and first just took a little bit of time on the home screen, I read a few of the little posts that were on the home page. Then I clicked on the 'About' column, and that is where I found their mission, their history, and the programs that they have. The website also shows us that they have books that are available for us to read. There are a series of books that all look very very interesting. After that i went to the 'Get Involved' column. When I clicked on this it showed a few different ways that we could get involved and help out. You could either subscribe, volunteer or donate. After I looked through the website I decided to take a little bit more time playing with the map. Not sure if I used the map correctly but I clicked on the name ' Yasir Aladdin Afifi' and it took me to a page that talked about the book "Patriot Acts: Narratives of Post- 9/11 Injustice". Reading the summaries of the stories that are in that book are really surprising/sad.
In the book Patriot Acts named above there were some stories that made me feel sad. In the book there is a girl named Adama and it states, "a sixteen-year-old Muslim American who was abruptly seized from her home by the FBI on suspicion of being a suicide bomber. Even after her release from detention, she was forced to wear a tracking bracelet for the next three years." This is crazy to just think that at such a young age she had to go through all those things that she went through. There was also a story about Rana who's a Sikh man whose brother Balbir was gunned down outside the gas station where he worked. Balbir’s death was the first reported hate murder after 9/11. This is another thing that is just unbelievable. It crazy to me how badly people are treated. It is honestly very sad. It is something we should all step up to change and make a difference in.
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