Just because i wear a hijab

I really just have to get this off my chest.

Just because I wear a hijab doesn't make me less of a human than you. just because I wear hijab I shouldn't get dirty looks and stares. This is more so in old ladies. I find it so frustrating when you get on a bus and an old woman clutches her bag? like what the hell?
The amount of rudeness that's been thrown my way over the last couple of years is just disgusting. I've realised more hostility now that I go to uni than when in college. But when I do think back at it, my college was full of ethnic minorities and there were a lot of muslim students and teachers. so I didn't really stand out. But now that I have to go to the train station regularly, I cant remember a day when someone didn't stare at me, you know the look I mean. once the train was packed, so I had to sit next to two ladies, one I assumed to be the mother and the other her daughter. these women were 35+  before I sat down they were having a chat and smiling etc. when I sat next to them their expression was one of horror, and they were just watching me throughout the whole train journey. looking at my phone as I was texting. Normally you'd expect someone to look away when you've caught them staring at you, but that certainly wasn't the case there.

Another time I went to a science fair ( yes I went to a science fair) and I got stopped and searched. I was there ( the fair) for a good 5 hours and in those 5 hours I haven't seen anyone else getting searched. I felt- I don't even know how to describe how I felt. all I wanted to do was to take my sister to a science fair and see cool  inventions and experiments. I felt like I was being treated like a criminal. For a crime that I didn't commit.

Even in uni, coming out of lecture I was walking with a friend who also wears a scarf and this remark was made by this guy- words that I don't even want to repeat.

It's not like we ask for preferential treatment, i'm not even speaking from an Islamic perspective. I'm speaking from a human perspective, just because we dress in a certain way doesn't mean that we should be made to feel inferior. I feel like we shouldn't have to constantly be like *hey look at us, we're normal, we're like you* Old ladies, I understand that you didn't exactly grow up with many muslims around. but that doesn't mean that you should give me a dirty look, turn around and stare at me when I sit next to you. This woman once even had the cheek to make a eurgh sound at me whilst I opened the door for her. I believe i'm a good person and I don't deserve the treatment I get. I don't judge a Labrador based on what a Rottweiler does. 

I guess i'm saying that; we have feelings too, I cant even begin to tell you how much it ruins my mood. It's not fair. I know some of the accounts I made above are nothing compared to how others get treated, however that doesn't make it any more acceptable.

We're all one race. The human race. Religion shouldn't really matter, I'm not being naïve. I've met some really lovely non muslim people who im friends with. However I've also met some hostile muslim people. I judge a person based on how they treat me and others, if more people did that being gay/straight/black/white/muslim/non muslim none of that would matter.

You may or may not agree with me with many points. To be honest I don't care.  When I blog, I blog as Confused Biochemist, that's how I choose to define myself. Not by my country, my gender, race or religion. Being a Muslim shouldn't affect/change anything or anyone but me.

That's all I wanted to rant about today.
Peace out.