This piece I have created focuses on one of the faces you do not see who is affected by Islamophobia. Many people have come to relate Islam to the Middle East specifically and associate it directly with the tragedy on September 11th, 2001, which skyrocketed the aggression towards practicing Muslims. Islam itself is a religion and a way of life widespread on a global front. The fear and destruction that occurred by people who used Islam as an explanation for their actions have hurt all who practice Islam. The woman I have drawn in my piece is my best friend’s grandmother, originally from Sierra Leone and has practiced Islam for her entire life. I have grown to know her very well and keep her dear in my heart. She has faced countless atrocities while raising children and being forced to marry a man with multiple wives while still struggling to provide for her children and herself. A life that many Americans cannot comprehend the struggles and hardships she was forced to overcome especially being a Muslim woman in Africa. While persevering and coming to the United States, where she believed she would be able to escape the hard life she was living, quickly came to realize there was a different type of oppression she would face. Being stopped, questioned, and detained while being verbally attacked because of her religion. This is a woman who has no relation to the terrorists who committed those atrocities, yet because she wears a hijab, subjecting her to all forms of pain due to the ignorance, fear, and stigmas surrounding Islam due to the offenses of the few. She is the face of Islam that goes unseen but faces all of the aggressions from those who misunderstand the concepts and teachings of Islam that center around peace.