Racism In Islamophobia

TSA would save money if they opted to train personal to racially profile Middle Easterners. They would not need to randomly search old disabled ladies. Security lines be shorter, and screening would require less personal.

Another proposed cause of the racial profiling in U.S. airports is Islamophobia. The Oxford Dictionary defines Islamophobia as the, “Dislike of or prejudice against Islam or Muslims, especially as a political force.” This irrational fear of Islamic people not only cause discrimination in airports but all over the world. People are Islamophobic because of a multitude of reasons. Professor Scott Appleby of the University of Notre Dame states that misinformation in the media badly displays the minority of extremists who do not

He believes that the media either does this out of ignorance or simply because they set to gain something, politically or financially, for portraying Islam as a violent religion (Appleby). Appleby claims that another cause of anti-Muslim sentiment in the U.S. is the economy. He concludes that people who feel like they are being displaced conveniently use Muslims as scapegoats (Appleby). He says, “the very threatening, easy target, the Muslim…suddenly becomes the Muslim terrorist who is undermining our way of life, from within” (Appleby). The tensions involved with crises also causes Islamophobia. Appleby points out that events like 9/11, the war in Iraq and the war in Afghanistan makes people believe that the U.S. is losing their sovereignty and, “their interests are being threatened by outsiders”. A combination of these reason is the formula in making a person Islamophobic. This fear causes people to turn against one another and produces lots of hate. Hate is the fuel in which foolhardy decisions are made on, decisions like supporting presidential candidate,

programs, security personal are cheaper to accommodate and are more expendable. Even so, the cost associated with airport security and its personal does not have the biggest effect on the problem of racial profiling. After the crisis of 9/11, “airlines can no longer use independent contractors to supply their security personnel, all of the screeners currently employed in U.S. airports are federal employees” (Kleiner 107). A recent report from the Department of Homeland Security shows that many T.S.A employees have not completed any comprehensive training program and the “T.S.A. cannot ‘show that the program is cost-effective, or reasonably justify the program’s expansion’” (qtd. in Schmidt). Reports in 2011 has revealed that the T.S.A was profiling passengers at airports in Newark and Hawaii (Schmidt). The Times magazine has reported that more than, “30 officers at Logan International Airport in Boston had said that the program was being used to profile passengers like Hispanics traveling to Florida or blacks wearing baseball caps backward,” (Schmidt). Yevgenia Kleiner, a New York City lawyer, states that