When I converted to Islam back in August of 2000, I knew it would be a gradual transition of adding regular prayers throughout the day, fasting during Ramadan, and changing my wardrobe.
Islamophobia is nothing new. The earliest Muslim communities of the Prophetic age dealt with the fear of the new way of life brought by Islam and the people who practiced it – Muslims.
Let us make a serious effort to fight hate on campus.
With the recent terrorist attack on a Canadian Muslim family of five, leaving one survivor in London, Ontario, fear is the last thing that should control our next step.