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Altaf Saadi, M.D.
Third-year medical resident at Massachusetts General Hospital
I Thought My Ivy League Degrees Would Protect Me From Bigotry. I Was Wrong.
Posted: 19/01/2016
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/altaf...012038.html?utm_hp_ref=australia&ir=Australia
My experiences are not isolated. A recent study in the American Journal of Bioethics found that 24 percent of Muslim physicians have experienced religious discrimination in the workplace.
This election year has made it harder to be a Muslim in America. Republican front-runner Donald Trump has advocated for registering Muslims inside the United States and banning those of us who reside abroad. Unfortunately, the majority of Republican Party members agree with him and the number of hate crimes against Muslims have tripled in recent weeks. Yet, I also recognize that Muslims are just America's newest "outsiders." Throughout our history, Catholics, Irish, Italians, women, African-Americans, Jews, Latinos and gays have all been targets of nativist fear-mongering. Many of these groups still face significant prejudice today, and hospitals are not immune from such discrimination, whether implicit or explicit.
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Altaf Saadi, M.D.
Third-year medical resident at Massachusetts General Hospital
I Thought My Ivy League Degrees Would Protect Me From Bigotry. I Was Wrong.
Posted: 19/01/2016
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/altaf...012038.html?utm_hp_ref=australia&ir=Australia
My experiences are not isolated. A recent study in the American Journal of Bioethics found that 24 percent of Muslim physicians have experienced religious discrimination in the workplace.
This election year has made it harder to be a Muslim in America. Republican front-runner Donald Trump has advocated for registering Muslims inside the United States and banning those of us who reside abroad. Unfortunately, the majority of Republican Party members agree with him and the number of hate crimes against Muslims have tripled in recent weeks. Yet, I also recognize that Muslims are just America's newest "outsiders." Throughout our history, Catholics, Irish, Italians, women, African-Americans, Jews, Latinos and gays have all been targets of nativist fear-mongering. Many of these groups still face significant prejudice today, and hospitals are not immune from such discrimination, whether implicit or explicit.
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