Huff Post: Engy Abdelkader.
Perception is a powerful thing.
Men wage wars on account of it: Iraq had WMDs.
Except, of course, it didn’t.
Innocent people are hurt, in a myriad of ways, due to it.
Darker complexioned men with long beards and turbans are presumed to be Muslim and, therefore, can’t be trusted. They are physically attacked, sometimes killed. As to perceptions, well, those men are actually Sikhs, an entirely distinct faith group.
And, as we are probably all aware, the question of trust is best left as an individualized, rather than group, assessment.