Ahmed Mohameds story is just one example of assumptions Muslim students and scientists must fight: ‘There seems to be this shadow that exists’Pressure cooker under his arm,Hisham Bedri, a Sudanese American Muslim, and wondered whether he could be viewed with suspicion as he walked across the MIT campus early one Friday morning,less than a month after the Boston Marathon bombing.
But Bedri pushed the thought out of his intellect. He was doing nothing wrong. The pressure cooker was required to sterilize the testing equipment that his graduate-level course, Evaluating Technology for Developing Countries, and was using to degree water quality. He had a big group presentation on Monday.
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Source: theguardian.com