Discrimination On Muslims After 9/11

The number of hate crimes against Muslims in the United States went up after the 9/11 attacks and it remains a huge problem today. According to Disha, “the numbers of anti-Muslim hate crimes

After the attack, hate crimes in the United States towards Muslim communities have increased by 1,600 percent from 28 hate crimes in 2000 to 481 in 2001 (Disha, Cavendish, King, 21-22). From the research done by Disha, Cavendish and King, with the data acquired from FBI, it is

A good example of this would be In 1997 SS lightning bolts and swastikas were among the anti-Semitic graffiti discovered in Hebrew and Yiddish books in the University of Chicago library, and an explosive device was detonated at the door of a Jewish center in New York City. But personal assaults against Jews are not uncommon. That same year, two men with a BB gun entered a Wisconsin synagogue and started shooting during morning prayers. In 1995 in Cincinnati, a gang member revealed that one of the victims of his group\\'s initiation ceremony was chosen just because he was Jewish. And recently because of the September 11 attacks Muslims have been the constant target of hate crimes in America.

While hate crime is a fairly new label for a crime, the existence of hate crimes has been present since the early days of the United States. Throughout US history, murders, assaults, and destruction of property has occurred against African Americans, American Indians, Irish immigrants, Asian Americans, Latino’s, gays, the mentally handicapped, and all other groups of minorities. Since the terrorist attacks on 9/11, there has been an increase in racial based attacks against those of Middle Eastern descent, whether they are Muslim or not. Of all of these, African Americans are subjected to the highest number of hate crimes (Martin 1996), with Muslims, homosexuals, and transgendered people on

According to quod.lib.umich.edu there was a reported 1,700 hate crimes to middle easterns between 2000 and 2001 after 9/11.

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.

America has been dealing with external attacks, but has ignored that hate crimes have been on the rise since 2014. America’s biggest threat is seen as ISIS, a terrorist group that has been attacking many countries around the world. Many Muslims have had to deal with the effects of uneducated people, as over

Between 2006 to 2017, as reported by O’Reilly, hate crimes targeting Muslims has increased by an outstanding 91%. The average increase in all forms of hate crimes rose by 41% between 2016-2017 (Farivar, 2017). Hence, inarguable statistics and numbers establish a very high rate of increase in hate crimes, most especially during 2016-2017, coinciding with the campaign and subsequent election of Donald Trump.

Directly after nine eleven, people began to fear and hate the idea of Muslims and those affiliated with the Islamic religion. They became wary of Muslims and continued to relate each of them to the terrorists simply because of their race and their beliefs. This wariness of Muslims led to a rise in hate crimes against Islamic people. The rise in hate crimes against people that followed the Islamic religion after nine eleven was substantial. In 2000, there were only twenty eight hate crimes directed towards Islamic people,

September 11th holds many hard and upset feelings around the world today. The harsh actions of Muslim extremists unfortunately completely changed the way Muslims are treated, especially in the United States. These events, exacerbated islamophobia. Unfortunately, “the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, connect Muslims and Islam to terrorism within the geographical borders of the United States.” (Byng) Although it has been over a decade since the attack, many still feel racist and discriminatory attitudes towards Muslims. Muslims are the targeted minority in the United States, “the 9/11 terrorist attacks shifted the social and political context for Muslims in the United States. Terrorism within the geographical borders of the United States carried out by Muslims places an identity at the center of national and global politics.” (Byng) The blame of the horrible terrorist attacks, rather than be placed on terrorists or religious extremist, has been placed on Islam in America. After September 11th, hate crimes towards Muslims skyrocketed, “the most dramatic change noted by the report was a more than 1,600 percent increase in reported hate crimes against Muslims -- a jump from 28 hate incidents in 2000 to 481 last year.”

The rate of physical attacks on immigrants drastically increased in the USA and Canada after attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. According to FBI’s Uniform Crime Reports, in 2001 the number of anti-Muslim hate crimes boosted almost to 500 which is an extensive and gigantic difference in comparison to pre-9/11 era.The murder of Yusor Abu-Salha, her husband Deah Barakat and her sister Razan Abu-Salha is an example of religiously-motivated hate crimes. The murderer posted anti-religion quotes and cartoons on his Facebook page which may lead to conclusion that hatred and prejudice towards religion, in this case Islam, is often a motive of murderers and violent attacks on immigrants. Anti-Muslim crimes make up about 13 percent of

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.

I think that Muslim discrimination in America got worse, but some things have to get worse to get better. Historically and presently, when Muslims travel to the United States or live in the US they face discrimination because of a small number of Islamic extremists take their religion too far. Historically there have been attacks on America that caused the discrimination. Currently in the US there have been some attacks by extremists and radical terrorists. The “islamic terrorists” are trying to “protect their religion” from the United States of America. In the future, I think there will still be discrimination against Muslim people. Further in the future there could be a time when there is very minimal discrimination against Muslims.

Recently after the attacks, many incidents of harassment and hate crimes were reported against people, who typically

As a result of Islamophobia; there were a lot of reports of assaults, attacks on mosques and other hate crimes against Muslims last years, . Muslims have been shot and killed, execution-style, in their living room, and outside of their mosques. They have