Cultural Prejudice And Racism Analysis

Shortly after the shootings on July 16, 2015 in Chattanooga, Tennessee, my father went to have dinner at a local restaurant in the town he had lived in for over 30 years. My father, with cleanly shaved brown skin, wore khaki pants and a short sleeve polo. While he was having dinner, a stranger walked up to him, and asked, “So, how many people have your people killed today?” Even though, my father is not Muslim, the stranger used “your people” to insinuate that my father was a Muslim and the shooters were his people. However, if I had gone to dinner that night instead of my father, I would not have received the same backlash that my father did because I would have been perceived as a Muslim woman. Western Islamophobia, and white racism carry

The process of racializing Muslims has developed into two types of racism comparing “good” and “bad” Muslims through inclusivity and exclusivity. Meer claims that the “construct differentiated social collectivities as races,” which acknowledge the features of ideational, structural, and institutional racism. The racialization process of Muslims acknowledges the deeply embedded racial issues that are intertwined in a historical, structural, and geopolitical layout throughout the United

Islamophobia has occurred because of anti-Muslim attitudes, and transformed into to deep cultural divides that depicts Muslims and people who are brown as outsiders and more specifically, terrorists, immigrants, and minorities—all of which have negative stigmas within the Western Hemisphere, and especially in the United States contemporary political debates. These discourses have created the framework that alienates those who are brown skinned on the basis of race. The concept of Islamophobia has been imposed on racial minorities, when “minorities should not be mixed up with faith communities…freedom of religion is not the same as minority rights.” Raymond Taras claims a valid point, by stating that individuals have the option to choose their faith, but racial categories are forced upon them without a freedom of choice. Furthermore, brown as a racial category is a socio-political identity that infringes upon the freedom of those who are brown by recognizing Islam as a culture instead of a