Lol- sorry i'm not laughing at you, i'm laughing at the silliness of the stalkers. yes, i have faced these problems more than once or twice. i do what i can. i know it is rude for people to stare, but i take this opportunity as a time to make dawah. usually if someone is staring and i feel that they are staring out of curiousity, i would usually go up to them and confront them, and i allow them to ask me questions that they maybe wondering about regarding my faith. this way, you clear their misconceptions. of course not everyone who stares at us is doing it innocently or out of curiousity. some do it because of hate, which usually tends to be the most often. others simply wonder why we are dressed the way we are dressed. two summers ago, i was followed by a man in his middle ages in the store. i assumed that he had at least reached 40 or above. he follow me into three or four different aisles and he started using derogatory terms to try and frighten me. he even followed me to the cashier place without any grocieries. i yelled at him in front of the crowd, and the manager came over and took care of it. in the end, he was the one embarrassed, not i. and all the customers were staring at him. lol. but anyways, this is just one incident among many. i tend to be picked on too often by adults and non adults alike -why? simple, they can't accept that a hooded woman is walking in their schools and hallways, in their shops and malls, they can't accept who we are because they are islamaphobic. however, that is no execuse in anyway to be treated unkindly. i don't want their love or their affection. i don't want their communications or anything to do with them - but it seems they are magnets attached to me everywhere i go. there are some sisters who hardly even get picked on. but me, my life in this country has been somewhat difficult when it comes to discrimination and injustice. but hey, i'm willing to fight back for who i am. islam is worth dying for. take care.
wasalamu 3alaykum.
