Chapter 1 Analysis Sample

Since 9/11/2001 hate crimes related to Islam-phobia has risen to nearly 481 and since has stayed above 100 in subsequent years. In 2015, 2% of hate crimes are anti-Islamic. Many times people are attacked for wearing hijabs, and even non-Islamic, Arabic people that wear hijabs are attacked because of their "terrorist" appearance. This is a ludicrous thing, comparing a group of millions of faithful followers to 22 extremists. Now, every day, Islamic followers live in fear of being attacked for their beliefs; this fear escalates one day a year—9/11.

"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

Violence has sadly become a large part of our society, as have hate crimes. Since the Paris attacks, there has been a huge incline of hate crimes against Muslims Americans and mosques. “The spike includes assaults on hijab-wearing students; arsons and vandalism at mosques at mosques; and shootings and death threats at Islamic-owned businesses […]” (Lichtblau). These attacks are bitter and cruel, but it is not the end of what has recently been happening to Muslims . This past December, there were multiple accounts of hate crimes against Muslims. On December 5th/6th, “A Muslim woman wearing a hijab said a man cut her off and threw stones at her car while she was driving away from a mosque…” (MacNeal). On December 10th, “A Muslim family in Plano, Texas, said that they had the windows on their home smashed two days in a row -- just six weeks after they moved to the area…” (MacNeal). Not only is this a horrible crime, but someone, maybe a child, could have been by that window. This act could have been fatal, and it shows how evil some people are. On December 13, two southern California mosques were vandalized. In the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Baitus-Salaam Mosque located in Hawthorne, California, a plastic replica of a hand grenade was found. This is a very serious way of threatening people, and about the same level of threat as a phone call saying someone was going to come in with a gun and kill people. To add to this, the fence surrounding the mosque of the Islamic Center of Hawthorne had the word “Jesus” spray-painted on it (MacNeal). Not only was this vandalization, but it took away someone’s right to religious freedom and knowing there was somewhere to pray without being judged, stereotyped, told it was wrong, or told they should be a different religion. Lastly, in “2013 Hate Crime Statistics” the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) reported that

Being Muslim in America comes with many challenges and hurdles, but the struggle has just begun. American Muslims have faced a great deal of discrimination from the public and the American government, as well as anti-Muslim sentiment from media outlets that depict Muslims in a negative light. Islamophobia has increased since the 9/11 attacks and Muslims have experience an array of hate crime throughout the years. Unfortunately, due to the ignorance of some and the lack of understanding of others, Muslims have become prime targets and the face of all that’s evil in the world. However, if Americans learn to put their differences aside and try to understand Islam for what it truly is, a religion founded upon peace and justice, they will see that

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.

Many feel that media is to blame for the rise of islamophobia after 9/11. In 2010 there was more coverage of religion in mainstream press than any year since Pew Forum began measuring coverage time in the media (Religion in the News: Islam Was No. 1 Topic in 2010

Due to the current political state of this country, the fear of Islam has been magnified especially, when the president of the United State has an anti-Islamic campaign. Islamophobia is the fear of Muslim identified individuals, this is a topic most people avoid because it is both religion and a political issue. In my time with Housing & Residential Education, I have seen many hot topics and Islamophobia is not one of those topics. The fear of Islam will be around and will not go away until we shed the light on it or bring more awareness. I am tired of feeling like a terrorist because of my identity or getting stopped at the airport because I am young, educated, and a Muslim man. My female Muslim sisters and friends have it worse than I do

Islam is a monotheistic religion, centered around the teachings of the Qu’ran and serving Allah (meaning God in Arabic). However, this Abrahamic religion has been harshly discriminated against in the United States for years. Most prominently throughout the last twelve years, post September 11th, 2001. Unfortunately, issues such as socialization through the media, power distribution, religious ignorance, stereotyping and visible differences have contributed to the ill attitudes towards Muslims. This paper will examine how Americans have been socialized in islamophobia within the United States.

As Americans, it’s easy for us to look at what happened in Germany and tell ourselves that it would never fly here and now. Americans also like to forget about slavery and Japanese internment camps, so it 's not unprecedented that we are ignoring what we’re doing to Muslims now. Post 9/11, America started a war against Muslims for the actions of a few radical people. Since then, as previously stated, hate crime rates against Muslims are five times as high as they were pre-9/11. In a similarly frightening pattern, studies have found that hate crime rates go up after other radical Muslim attacks, like those seen in Paris or the San Bernardino (NBCNews.com). Using these attacks to justify islamophobia is unfortunately similar to the Germans using propaganda to spread the hate of Jewish people by playing off stereotypes. Every attack is another drop in the bucket of “Muslims are violent” while innocent people suffer for it. To people against Islam, every hijab is a cage, every mosque a tomb, and every attack a point proven.

With this in mind, in “Islamophobia and the Muslim Civil Rights Crisis”, the theologian and lecturer Mohammed Ansar states, “Silencing: criticisms made by Muslims of "the West" are rejected out of hand, even though they may be well founded. Hostility: negativity towards Islam is used to justify discriminatory practices towards Muslims and the exclusion of Muslims from mainstream society. Normalisation: anti-Muslim hostility is seen as natural, normal and even recommended.” (Islamophobia) These are three Islamophobic behaviors that stem from myths about the Muslim faith all because people are uneducated on it. If the government were more willing to not blow every situation out of proportion to convince society of the false ways of Muslims and instead, they spread awareness of why Islamophobia is a bad thing, the hatred for a Muslims will drop. Similarly, through an American’s eyes, according to the survey by Pew Research Center, 82% of Americans say Muslims receive hate, 49% say that Islam is no more likely than other faiths to commit violent attacks, and 57% say that they receive unjust treatment. (Gregg) With a majority of Americans, who took the survey at least, being aware of the hate Muslims receive, nobody seems to care to make it change. With individuals who have power over society and that have a voice who can be heard, it is

True Islam has been hijacked. The public image of the Muslim community, not only in America, but globally, has been tainted by small groups of extremists. The extremists’ ideas stem from conservative interpretations of the Quran, and are not as widely followed as most people assume. Some examples from the Quran that extremists interpret differently than most often have to do with the term disbelievers; Quran 48:29, “Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah, and those who are with him are severe against disbelievers, and merciful among themselves.” The “disbelievers” in this verse refers to those who persecuted and attacked Muslims, this is not a verse guiding Muslims to be unpleasant to non-Muslims; although it is interpreted that way. It only

The United States is the “land of the free and home of the brave”, but is this motto truly free from contingencies? By donning the hijab, many Muslim Americans become the target of anti-Islam hate crimes, regardless of the religious freedom that the majority of American’s claim to uphold. Why is it that a country based on religious freedom would so blatantly mistreat an entire belief system? Why has the spread of misinformation that perpetuates Islamophobia become so common in our society? Muslims in the United States are feared due to the terrorist acts of extremists and the general lack of unbiased knowledge of the Islamic religion.

Islamophobia existed in America before the terrorist attacks of September 11 2001, but it was not as harsh as it was back then, but it did increase after the terror attacks and with the media adding more misconceptions (Sinlak, n.d.). Some of the perceptions that most Americans had of the Middle East was that they were rich with oil, lived a lavish life and consisted of deserts. They did not have the idea of the Middle East being a terrorist region where there was always war. However, after 9/11 the negative views started to increase, and Muslims and the Middle East were viewed very negatively. When we

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