When I hear about muslims on t.v or on social media there are mostly associated with the middle east. The religion mostly practised in most of the countries there is Islam and those who practice it are called muslims. My family and I thought that all of the people who looked ¨muslim¨ were terrorists, until I found out in government class that their religion practices peace and not violence. There are always those who rebel against it that makes others see the big picture rather than actually doing some research. The author's point of view is to let the reader know that muslims are not terrorist and should not have to apologize for terrorism since they have nothing to do with it. He talks about as a Muslim American he constantly gets asked …show more content…
They are regular people who some were born in the U.S as the author who was born in Texas. Hi family wanted to be free and live a happy life but are encountered with stereotypes that make them miserable. There are certain people almost in everything that someone does not follow the rule and since it is mostly known through people who write articles and presented on the new people focus on the negative rather to know the actual deal. The author mentions, ¨Should every single gun owner in America have to apologize whenever someone is killed by a firearm¨ (Alnatour,1) He makes this statement to let the reader understand where he is coming from just because someone is like that don mean everyone else is the same. People always have their eyes on the negative, quick to judge than actually getting to the point and the …show more content…
This is why we have Muslims women like Niloofar Rahmani and Kubra Khademi who are at the very frontlines fighting terrorists¨ (Alnatour, 2). They should not be asked to do what they already do. They deserve the respect as any other human being just because they look different from us doesn't mean we should treat them any different. As a latino/hispanic man of us get classified as cheater, rappers, lazy people who have come to steal American jobs. It is miserable because we are the people who do the jobs that most American don't want so why do they say we are stealing their jobs. Most of us work three jobs since one is not enough to support our large families. The black community as well being classified as robbers, drug abuser and lazy people who do not like to work. Most of them are pushed in neighborhoods where that is the only path for them sometimes since they are not getting the resources they need to be successful. The point for me mentioning these tie back to the stereotypes against Muslims and not all who look like ¨Muslims¨ are Muslims, they should not get all the blame for
In the article “Is Terrorism Distinctively Wrong?”, Lionel K. McPherson criticizes the dominant view that terrorism is absolutely and unconditionally wrong. He argues terrorism is not distinctively wrong compared to conventional war. However, I claim that terrorism is necessarily wrong.
Pico Lyer, writer of The Terminal Check was an Indian who was born in England and raised mostly in the United States of America. Lyer has chosen to live in Japan for about twenty years, and still receives questioning while at the airport. Chronicle Editorial Boards, The Stigma of Being Muslim in America, talks about how Muslims in America are being murdered all the time because of the color of their skin. Both the editorial, The Stigma of Being Muslim in America and the story, The Terminal Check use personal experience and facts about the population of the world as a whole to show the stigma of being a Muslim, Arabian, or any ethnicity from the Middle East. All these shootings and personal events prove that not only Americans fear people from
On September 11, 2001, since the terrorist attacks, many American Muslims have been stereotyped negatively in the United States. Salma, a Muslim woman, says that the way Muslims have been recognized in the media has played a big role in the antagonisms directed to her. “I don’t know how many time I heard my classmates accuse me of being al-Qaeda or a terrorist” (Mayton 2013). Salma, along with other Muslims, even after a decade, are still struggling with trying to find their “American” and “Islamic” identities, while facing verbal attacks for their ethnicity. Too often, the general Muslin population gets lumped in with the immoral acts of a few because of the lack of knowledge about their culture.
... There are those individuals that have a strong hatred for Islam, than we have people that feel sorry for Muslims in America and make them feel like they actually belong to society. However, it would be fantastic if people can start to actually separate terrorists from the Muslim community. Their religion was hijacked by the attack. Like I previously mentioned, we many not seem to stop and realize that our own religion might be part of terrorism. Religion should not matter when we look at a person because there are two kinds of people in the world, the good and bad. If we all had to look at the flaws in everyone’s beliefs and religious we would probably come to the conclusion that we aren’t all terrorists but some people with the same beliefs as us, might be. We tend to find the bad in something and associate it with everything else that is somehow connected to it.
They are people who like to show off their guns and will walk around the neighborhood to show that they own gun. But they are people who don’t like guns and will call the police and the police then violate the gun owner
Islam in America has historically been misunderstood, and this is due to the misconception of culture and religion as well as lack of education and incorrect portrayal in the media, which gives a skewed idea of Islam. Especially in the United States, Islam has been seen as the “terrorist religion” or a religion for the extremists and a religion in which freedom is not an option. Among the countless misconceptions, the basis of stereotypes by Americans is due to the mix up between religion and culture. Furthermore, the media only fuels fire to these misunderstandings and lack of factual information about Islam causing Americans to lash out on American Muslims without reason.
Because people judge others, and tell the community how they should think about them, those who are judged
In the essay, the writer acknowledges the misunderstandings that come from media images by explaining the contrasts between these images and the teachings of the faith to support her claim that fear is the reason for this misconception. The conception that many people have of Muslims is that they are terrorists, anti-Semites, and fanatics. This conception exsists because television news and newspapers support that stereotype. The broadcast of such stereotypes encourages fear and accusations of the Islamic relegion's teachings. The writer explains that Islam teaches peace, tolerance, and equality. She further states that Muslims shown in the media have violated these teachings ...
Muslim people have a really hard time with this issue. “The Muslim immigrant community (here after referred to as Muslim immigrants, Muslims, and Muslim students interchangeably) in the United States is a population that experiences misunderstanding based on what they look like, how they dress, where they come from, and confusion about their religion” (Tindongan). Muslims are misrepresented in the United States, they are looked at strictly based on their color and background. Many people think Muslims bring terror, but not all Muslims are bad. Muslims identities have changed greatly because of the attacks in New York (9/11), Washington and Pennsylvania.
In early 1974, the Secretary General of the United Nations, U Thant, invited the Palestinian Liberation Organization to attend the General Assembly gathering on November 13, 1974, and in doing so gave legitimacy to the Palestinian Liberation Organization as a governing body. In Yasser Arafat’s speech to the General Assembly, he thanked the United Nations for recognizing his organization and its legitimacy. When Arafat addressed the General Assembly, he made the argument that the actions taken by his government were not acts of terrorism, but these were acts of revolution and their purpose was to regain control of Palestine’s occupied original territory. The problem we confront is, there is no internationally agreed upon definition of terrorism and the international community should be able to come up with one. The major hurdle in defining is the states’ ideas of what terrorism is.
A lot of people believe that Muslims, Islam, and/or the Holy Quran encourages killing, fighting, and terrorism. Events such as the 9/11 attack in the United States, the Boston Marathon Bombing, and conflicts in the Middle East causes the media to label Muslims as terrorists. When a specific group of people cause violence to another group it is categorized as ‘hate crime’, but if a Muslim does the same act, the media immediately labels it as ‘terrorism’ (Frater, 2009). As a matter of fact, regarding to the attacks of the mosques in Israel, the media did not use the acts to victimize or stereotype Judaism. Moreover, some extremist groups use Islam as a tactic to gain followers even though a lot of their practices go against the teachings of the Quran. A person would not be considered a Muslim if they spread fear or terrorize others. The Quran clearly states, “You shall not take life, which God has made sacred, except by way of justice and law.” (Quran, 6:151). Islam is against any force or violence towards another person. Often the word ‘Jihad’ is taken out of context by violent militants; it means to strive or struggle for the sake of ones’ self improvement with respect to their spirituality. Religious and political groups use Jihad to justify ...
After 9/11 has induced negative attitudes towards Muslim peoples who tend to be strongly associated with any act of terrorism. The media has played a colossal role in developing such negative association wherein it constantly portrays Muslim people in combination with violent terrorist acts. It does so in a way that they both go hand-and-hand. In other words, it has made it as though the Islamic religion is synonymous with terrorism. The media has perpetuated Muslim stereotypes over the years that followed the 9/11 incident. Because of this, society has developed, and still has developed, this prejudiced mindset about the Islamic religion and the Muslim communities around the world. People immediately assume that any violent act being depicted through the media is the direct result of Muslims. They automatically generate this idea that the act was performed by a Muslim terrorist even when they were not involved whatsoever. Regardless of whether it was true or not, Islamic religion and its Muslim adherents are at the top of societies’ agenda just waiting for the evidence to be generated so that they can then safely blame them for such world affairs. Again, this has led to the attack on the Islamic religion itself wherein people have come to postulate Islam as an act of oppression, violence and hatred towards non-Muslims. Anti-Muslim sentiments and campaigns have resulted from such misinformation the media has been generating and feeding its viewers.
While people in the west think that women in Islam are oppressed, they do not know that Islam liberated women from oppression. There are many people who have opinions about the religion of Islam, but mostly about the women who follow it. Westerners have this idea that women in Islam are disrespected, mistreated and oppressed. In actuality, these allegations are incorrect. Women in Islam have rights and are not oppressed. The veil is widely misunderstood and many do not know what it represents. In many ways, men and women are equal as much as they are not; and this is in every religion.
In this world there are many different topics of controversy. With every controversial topic comes different views and arguments explaining why people believe what they do. There are problems that can be just within one country or throughout the entire world. Terrorism affects everyone in the world, specifically us as Americans, which is why it is one of the biggest controversial topics. Of course with a topic as big as terrorism, there are emic and etic perspectives involved. With past history, there are specific countries and religions that we think of when we hear the word terrorism, specifically Afghanistan, located in the Middle East and the Muslim religion in that general area. Being part of the American
Pakistan is the basis in the international fight against terrorism to this day. Many Pakistani terrorist groups have made many terrorist attacks around the world. Pakistan faced the choice siding with or staying against the United States during the aftermath of 9/11. Violence in Pakistan has increased for many years as terrorist groups have targeted many political leaders, tribal leaders, the military, and also schools. Pakistan is divided into people who see the country as modern and/o...