Muslim Woman Discovers Friendly New World When a Winter Scarf Covers Her Hijab

[riderinthestorm]

65. Nobody automatically gets respect from me. That's weird. I'm courteous and open

when I meet people and reserve judgement but nobody gets instant "respect". Common decency of course until I know them better. But instant "respect"? No

Demanding that someone earns instant respect because they're a part of the human race isnt in my DNA. That doesn't make me and others who also think like me suspicious or racist or bigoted.

It just means we're warier and more cynical than others. Probably older too.

As for your desire to see bigotry in her blog, I'd point to the fact that she was also given the cold shoulder by her community who couldn't identify her as part of their tribe. That she chose to gloss over that is understandable but doesn't make her inference that she was now "accepted" in the secular world some kind of indicator of discrimination.

Its more a comment on how we perceive and treat those who are part of our "family" vs those who are not.