Personal Narrative: My Life As A Brown Muslim

Jamal Wallis at the start is a student attending a normal normal high school and is also decent at basketball. While Jamal openly doesn’t like school he is smart and a good writer. Things take a turn for the better after he accidentally leaves his pack after a bet but Forrester drops it to him with his edited writings. Jamal also starts attending a better school due to very good test scores. He starts to befriend Forrester and slowly Jamal becomes his student. Jamal's writing is too good however and his teacher thinks he isn’t the writer. He then turns in something referencing Forrester which Forrester said never to do. Jamal then must win states so that he can keep attending but, he purposely misses two easy shots. Forrester then comes into his class and states his friendship with Jamal and Jamal is dismissed from charges and

Before 9/11 I was a normal American boy. After 9/11 I was revoked of my title as an American and belittled to an immigrant. Growing up in the Seattle area I was never faced with racism until the incident took place. I was picked on due to the religious beliefs I held. I was forced to hide my religious identity that also cultivated my culture. From this early experience I saw how fragile the American society could be. Even though I had grown up amongst my peers, they no longer saw me as an equal. Being an African American and a Muslim made me see a unique view of the American society. As an African American I witnessed racism first hand. Working at the CenturyLink Stadium as a Muslim I was forced to hide who I truly was. Walking into a store

Having been nurtured by a rather sensible and overall educated family, both my academic and career goals are set up astonishingly high.

America has diverse home for all religions. There are diverse Muslims population all over the world, including people of ethnicity, country and international students, that are citizens of America. According to studies, Muslims population is about .8% of the population, that is 2.6 million Muslims are in US in 2010. Thirty percent of Muslims American population are African Americans whose parents were born in America. Overall, 23% muslim american identity is black. Muslims are all over United State; careers such such as doctors, lawyers, nurses, even the highest positions, congress. Muslims who migrated to America seek for economic opportunities and democratic

Motivation and drive help push people to do incredible things. Striving to be like my brother wasn’t motivation to push myself to work hard. I learned that I wasn’t going to be successful if I kept comparing myself to his blinding success. I resorted to looking for an interest that I truly had passion for. I set my attention on DECA, a business organization that built a business acumen. I decided to start taking competition seriously. The stock market competition caught my eye because it was a competition where students could invest in stocks, which were synched with the live stock market. Competing sparked my interest in investments. I learned about how the market worked, types of investments, how to analyze stocks, and the different applications of finance. Once the competition began to level off, I was top 10 in the world. This was the first successful extracurricular activity I had been a part of that didn’t involve my family. It was a phenomenal feeling. Finance then became my passion, and I began to picture myself in this profession.

When analyzing who I am through a microscope there are a few qualities that may be put in the spotlight. To begin, one that catches my attention the most would be my overbearing need to continually strive for greater heights in all aspects of my life. If there was one attribute that made me who I am it would be this one. Academically I’ve applied this way of thinking throughout my high school career to push myself to do better than I had ever thought possible. For as long as I can remember I’ve always put an immense amount of effort into school. From doing all my homework on the playground in elementary school to countless long nights of homework with minimal rest in high school. I’m not the most intelligent person there ever

I come from a small town and a family who hasn’t always had luxurious things but has never went without the things we must have. For that I will forever be grateful. Watching my father and mother struggle to provide for my sisters and I strongly motivated me to want to earn a higher education. I hope to have a career that I both enjoy and that allows me to provide many things for myself and future family. I know that because of my family’s financial stability this will not because easy.

On February 5th, 2016, I left Islam. Growing up in a conservative religious family in Saudi Arabia made Islam seem like everything. Empowering Islam was my purpose in life. Islam answered all of the big questions I had. Islam was my Identity. Losing my faith was not easy especially because the Muslim community showed people who lose their faith as lost, depressed, and suicidal. Without knowing it, after I lost my faith, I started to follow that stereotype. I felt like I was alone and there was no one like me. I was afraid to tell anyone because in Islam and Saudi Arabia apostasy is punishable by death. I finally got the courage to tell my older brother and he

Everyone in this world is tied to a race that provides information about their lives. Phyllis Katz, a professor in the University of Colorado, mentions that children these days are beginning to notice racial differences and come up with their own interpretation of it. I completely agree with Katz because when I was a child I used to notice racial diversity. Back in Kuwait, we have maids that are from different races that aid us in our households. When I was a child, I noticed that they were not, “like us”. No one informed me or gave me a lesson on different races. I witnessed everything by myself. They looked different than us, which gave out the obvious. My parents in fact did not tell me which group I belonged to. Kuwait is a small country where almost everyone knows each other. That being

I have been practicing Islam from a very young age and I truly believe in the one and only God who created the universe and has power over everything within it. As a Muslim we must testify that there is no other god but Allah, and Muhammad is the messenger of God. Islam is summed up into five rules, known as the Five Pillars which is the framework of the Muslim life. Me personally, I try to adhere the five pillars and try to recite the the salat (prayer) five times a day and read the Quran. In the other hand, I am gradually beginning to rediscover Islam because after the years that I lost Islam I honestly did live a happier life, but it was not very meaningful and satisfy as I thought it would when I could not do things because Islam prohibited

My voice was amplified during the action phase through others hearing me vocalize my research paper in a more refined and proud way. Peers and friends could easily see that I was passionate even if it was a sensitive topic. I grew as a person through accepting who I am and the experiences i've encountered. Being raised Muslim was very difficult and embarrassing in my eyes before, yet, when I advocated to stand up for American Muslims it was such a thrilling experience. I felt proud to be Muslim and hope in a kinder world. Without carrying out service to my community I wouldn't have learned these things about myself and many of my peers might have gone throughout their days not aware of hate crimes against a religious group of people. Sharing

I doubted religion at a young age. “How does anyone know God is real?” I’d scribble in my notebook. As a scientist at heart, I wanted physical proof to fuel the fantasies. In our book Prophet Ibrahim had at first doubted God, but then God sent him birds to kill, yet make alive again. Prophet Ibrahim was convinced, but I was not. Until I had experienced my own revelation, everything was just a story. And then I realized, maybe I had to ask. “Dear god, if you’re true please make a dove appear right next to me! Now!”

I have had many opportunities to do the wrong things in my life, but most of the time I chose not to. I’m going to be honest. I have done things that I regret and things that possibly could have been a gateway to worse things(situations). However, today, I am proud of who I have become and appreciative everything I have been able to achieve in the obstacles I have overcome. My family always refers to me as “the smart one,” for I have grown up making exceptional grades all through grade school, middle school, high school, and hopefully college. I wouldn’t necessarily say academic work came effortless to me as most of my family and friends would say. I would rather say that I am willing to toil for the best outcome in education; for anything in that matter. The reason for my inclination would have to be because of where I came from, my mother.

Growing up in a family in which both my parents had master's degrees, it was naturally expected that I would go to college, and for both my own benefit as well as pleasing my parents, I chose to pursue so-called "higher education". Stepping up to this "higher" plateau is no small matter, however.

chances for a prosperous future is education. For this reason, during high school, I studied hard to obtain