American Muslim Rhetoric

Among the minorities, people with an Islamic religious viewpoint are treated differently throughout America. A dark day in United States history,

Following the terror attacks in The Unites States in 2001, there has been an increase in Islamophobia in the Western World. Following 9/11, respondents indicate that levels of implicit or indirect discrimination in The United States rose by 82,6% and experiences of over discrimination by 76,3% (http://jiv.sagepub.com/content/21/3/317.short). A combination of how Arabs and Muslims are portrayed in the media, with the increase of organized terrorist groups and refugees since the Arabic Spring, makes this a big political challenge today. This bibliography is written to get an overview of why Islamophobia has increased and the challenges that comes with the rise of Islamophobia.

Muslims are one of the most marginalized people in the U.S for their beliefs and their religion but after 9/11 discrimination and hate crimes against them had become even worse.Throughout the U.S people have been “Anti-Islam” and believed that the Muslim’s religion is absurd, want muslims to change their beliefs or, leave the country.According to “Anti-Islman Discourse in the United States in the Decade After 9/11:The Role of Social Conservatives and Cultural Politics”by David D.Belt on page 211-212, talks about how a post on Charisma News with an article title “Why I am Absolutely Islamophobic” was urging at the fact that Muslim-Americans needed to be deported as soon as possible ,or go under sterilization.Also Belt talks about one of Bush’s family friend being,Franklin Graham saying that he thinks the muslim’s religion is “very evil “and “wicked”.One last example a man named Gabriel had said Islam is the real enemy of America and that we supposedly “we will be doomed in war if we don’t realize it”. People are so brainwashed it honestly insane and very ignorant at the things people think about Muslims, its barbaric.They believe what Muslims believe in and their religion is wrong and they should switch to “Christianity” because it is the “American way “ or have them deported because the do not belong there and are “terrorist”.

Historically, the United States of America has a long history of shaping its ideology from a series of significant events that hold unspeakable brutality. This leads Americans to draw conclusions, which often leads to denouncing a particular body of people. For example, the enslavement of African Americans, the decimation of Native Americans, and the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. Currently, while enduring several years in the U.S., Muslim Americans face similar difficulties as a human being would. However, these hardships differ because they include U.S. discrimination triggered by 9/11, current terrorist events, and negative reinforcement from the media and the general public. Muslim Americans experience the harmful effects of terrorism because acts of terrorism influence the way the U.S. views and thinks about Muslims.

Muslims now, suffer from discrimination in America ever since the 9-11 Era. Some people believe that muslims were the reason why 9-11 and other terrorists attacks happened. The hate for American-Muslims has increased by 78%. Even our president, Donald Trump, wanted a ban on immigration by Muslims. The anti-Muslim hate and violence have reportedly increased rapidly after Donald Trump’s comments on the Muslims. Social media and the news for months

"We are not talking about isolation, we're talking about security, we are not talking about religion, we're talking about security" said Donald Trump. From the newspapers to the news on television, ever since the 9/11 tragedy, America have shown great hatred towards Islam. The media always seem to put us, muslims in negative spot-light and parade islam as a religion that encourages violence. The media shows great discrimination against muslims and help to cause the increase in frequency of islamophobia the past decade. According to the FBI, 94 percent of terrorist attacks carried out inside the United States from 1980 to 2005 have been by non-Muslims. It is a tough journey as a muslim to live in an era of hate crimes against my people.

Americans fear that the terrorists would some days attack their country, and kill them. This fear is vastly increased after the 2001 attack in New York City. Since then, most Muslims in America have been investigated by spying their phone talks, screening their profiles and so on . Although everybody knows that Muslim extremists are the only cause, they tend to relate it to all other innocent Muslims and discriminate them. It is not only affected Muslim adults but also their kids. They wanted to quit from schools because they were consistently called murderers. Worse than this, they received violent acts such as kicking, bullying just because they are born Muslims. The racism today is obviously shown in President Donald Trump’s traveling ban on seven Muslim countries which is later changed to six by excluding Iraq. It prevents all Muslims from these countries to travel to the US (Henderson & Graham). Even though the President wants to strengthen the security and makes Americans safe, the ban do affect thousands Muslims who do not involve in terrorism, and shows the discrimination against this

Muslims in Australia proceeding Hanson’s ill-informed attacks on their value system have felt alienated and marginalised from Australia’s political system. When a social group in society is ostracised by the political sphere, the civic participation of that social group, in turn, becomes limited. Simply because they believe that the system has failed them (Bird & Mcdonell, 1997).

They believe if they have a “all-American identity” they will be free from discrimination (Green, 2016). For instance, Muslim Americans feel that there is a requirement to showcase more of a watered down version of their religion when they are out in public. Often they feel they have to hide their foreign names, change their appearances, avoid talking in their native language, or remove from their religious views. Muslim Americans believe they need to make themselves fit in with the American standard and a appear “normal” (Green, 2016). Muslim Americans have to hide their own practices and compensate for American standards in order to be free from

On Monday, April 4th, 2016, a Muslim family were told to get off a United Airlines flight, because of a flight security issue. The mother explains, “Shame on you United Airlines for profiling my family and me for no reason other than how we look and kicking us off the plane for 'safety flight issues' on our flight to DC for the kids' spring break. My three kids are too young to have experienced this” (Staufenberg 1). Prejudice is still a big problem today. People will grow up thinking that they should not do something or that they can not do something, because of who they are.

Tolerance and freedom of religion have long been considered pillars of America’s overall appeal. We preach it and shove it in the faces of less liberal countries, all while failing to practice it in our own backyard. People come here from all over the world in hopes of experiencing a life free from oppression and degradation, but are instead welcomed with more hatred and ignorance. This is especially true with the Muslim community. A resolution towards the acceptance of Islam can be achieved only through applying what are supposed to be basic American rights and ideals, which would require an overhaul of the completely negative stigma surrounding this community.

America has a long history of excluding people from society based on race, gender, class, and religion. There is a growing trend of the social exclusion of people based on phenotype, dress, and religious preference. Many Muslims in the United States are denied cultural citizenship. Today, citizenship can not be denied from a person based on these apearence. Since 9/11, the status of Muslims both within the USA and globally has garnered significant attention from scholars, researchers, politicians, and the media. The Pew Research Center pubished several reports on Muslims, from public opinion polls capturing Muslim worldviews and their attitudes toward America and Islamic extremism to the impact Islam has had on the religious and political landscape

The agonizing terrorist attacks of September 9th, 2001 left the country in emotional distress. The United States of America decided to prepare for tragic attacks like this and reevaluated its immigration and foreign policies, the citizens of the US also became united and stronger from these attacks. This ideology that the US has become more united after an attack that killed nearly 3,000 people has become mainstream and may be true in some cases, but many people overlook the impact it had on the millions of Muslim Americans. The Muslim generation before us had its own problems dealing with racial discrimination and hate crimes, many people believed it stop their but this contempt was passed on to my generation. The discrimination I have received has caused me to change my aspirations in order to ensure that no one else receives the treatment I had gotten.

After 9/11 and the subsequent increase in national security, many Muslims, or those who fit the stereotype of Muslims, have been profiled and “randomly selected” for screening in airports. Islamophobia, which is a result of Muslim stereotypes, has also caused many Muslims (and Arabs that fit the Muslim stereotype) to be faced with racial slurs, threats, physical assault and even death. This is because most people cannot dissociate the stereotype that Muslims are terrorists from reality. As a result they lash out at anyone they believe fits the profile of being

It is absolutely certain that the current political climate has caused an increased amount of open and acted-on hatred within the American people. A substantial amount of this hatred and discrimination is toward Muslim Americans and is known as Islamophobia. Islamophobia has always been prevalent in the United States with reasoning ranging from colorism to the idea that the religion of Islam and Muslim people are just too “different” from what an American “should” be. Unfortunately, Islamophobia in the U.S. drastically increased after 9/11 and the discrimination and prejudice is still just as harmful if not more harmful than it was 16 years ago. Muslim people, specifically men in the United States are stereotyped as dangerous, as