When she learned that two bombs had been detonated at the Boston Marathon, one thought crossed Ifrah Inam’s mind: “Oh God, don’t let it be a Muslim.”
The day after the bombing, the sophomore in the pharmacy program at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, in Boston, briefly considered visiting Boylston Street, the site of the attack. She decided not to, in part because she worried what the reaction might be to her hijab.
Read more in The Chronicle of Higher Education.