AuthorSinaan Younus

Sinaan Younus, a sixth grade student at Perry Hall Middle School, is the youngest writer of the Muslim Writers Guild of America to publish in a major American newspaper. He has published in the Baltimore Sun and Perry Hall Patch. He enjoys playing sports and leisure reading in his free time.
February 3, 2017

We’ll love America, even if it doesn’t love us back

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03February

Originally Published in USA Today President Trump’s travel ban bothers me to my core. But what bothers me more is the false sympathy that’s present because of it. Whether it’s a 40-year-old hijabi woman like my mother or a 15-year-old high school student like myself, any Muslim American can share her experience with veiled Islamophobia since 9/11. This ban lifts the veil. Sadly, we’ve learned to...

March 1, 2014

Shock and surprise over Rice arrest

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01March

Originally published in The Baltimore Sun I was shocked, surprised and stunned to read of Ravens running back Ray Rice‘s arrest on domestic violence charges (“Ravens’ Rice knocked fiancee unconscious, police say,” Feb. 20). Mr. Rice was the last person I expected to commit such an act, if only because he champions the Ray of Hope anti-bullying campaign. By visiting...

September 12, 2012

The 9/11 Memorial deserves respect

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12September

Originally Published in The Perry Hall Patch Sinaan A. Younus, a sixth grade student at Perry Hall Middle School, submitted the following as a letter to the editor. 9/11 Memorial—a monument or a tourist attraction? As an 11-year-old, I was both touched and shocked to visit the 9/11 Memorial earlier this year. I was touched to see how we, as a country, have honored the people who lost their lives...