Terrorism and the Muslim Community

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Much of the terrorism that occurs globally tend to have a link with the Muslim community. When a terrorism activity occurs, the media focus on the Muslim community as the potential masterminds of the criminal act. In most parts of the world, people associated with the Muslim culture receive a lot of discrimination considering that their colleagues associate with terrorism activities. The main question is that are all the terrorism activities that take place associate with the Muslim community. The issue of Muslims engaging on terrorism activities has a great influence from the political and cultural perspectives. Most of the academics differ on the issue of Muslims engaging in terrorism and their main contribution on the criminal activities. Some of the academics argue that the other criminal groups engage in terrorism activities and later associate themselves with the Muslim community. Most of the terrorism activities come up because of the contribution made by the Muslim community.

In this paper, I will focus my argument by comparing and contrasting two articles regarding on the issue of Muslim contribution to the terrorism activities that the world has lately experienced. The Muslims contribute much in the terrorism activities as referred by the author of one of the articles known as Mehdi Semati . On his article, Semati illustrates that back in November of year 2006, unexpected act happened in one of the International airports. About six Muslim Imams were stopped from boarding a flight that was heading to Phoenix . The passengers and the crewmembers in the flight that was coming from Minneapolis got suspicious with the behavior that the six men were expressing. The crew called the police at the airport to intervene and they were able to arrest the six Muslim Imams. Fortunately, if the six men had bad motives that they were planning to do, the police were able to stop them. The law allows everyone to report any suspicious behavior that would result to causing danger to other people’s life.

The article written by Mahmood Mamdani Cleary shows that, most of the activities regarding to terrorism activities result from the contribution of Muslim brothers. Mamdani illustrates that the activities that happened on September 11 in the country of America were a clear significance if the Muslim contribution to the terrorism activities. Although he argues that there exist good and bad Muslims, he accepts the fact that these men contribute in a great percentage in the terrorism activities that happen globally.

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