9/11 Stereotypes

Fear has been around since the beginning and has struck almost every person on this planet at least once. Fear in the Webster dictionary is defined as an unpleasant emotion caused by the belief that someone or something is dangerous, likely to cause pain, or a threat. Fear has began to corrupt everyones judgement and people have began to stereotype everyone based upon past history and past mistakes.September 9, 2001 is a day that every american has come to remember.Ever since 9/11 our country has been fearful of muslims and the stereotype that they are dangerous to us. 9/11 marks the day where muslims began to be stereotyped as terrorist. Webster Dictionary states that a muslim is a follower of the religion of Islam and a terrorist is

"Until we are able to determine and understand this problem and the dangerous threat it poses, our country cannot be the victims of horrendous attacks by people that believe only in Jihad, and have no sense of reason or respect for human life." President Trump put this ban in place right after the wake of a deadly mass shooting in San Bernardino, California thought to be by suspected ISIS sympathizers. Trump and also many americans were and still are very fearful of muslims and their next attack on our country. A article by CNN Politics called “Looking Back at 9/11”, states that “The increased concern about new attacks comes as Americans say they experience more anger and fear when they think about what happened 15 years ago on 9/11. About three-quarters say they feel anger when they look back, about on par with the share who felt angry on the fifth anniversary but significantly above the 62% who said so at the 10th anniversary. 40%, say they feel fear when they think about 9/11, but that too is up from five years ago. Then, just 30% said they felt fearful when considering the terrorist attacks, a figure that stood at 44% in 2006.” Fear accompanied by anger is around and will always be around. One has to think but why do we associate muslims with terrorist? Why do we associate someone dancing in the woods to become a