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Donald Trump Banning All Muslims Entering Us Analysis

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Yesterday I read a news story, which was disturbing and left me in awe. The article was titled “Donald Trump: Ban All Muslims Entering US”, by Ed Pilkington was published in Guardian dated December 8, 2015(http://bit.ly/1OLTDLt). The story talks about Trumps comments about denying entry to Muslims into United States.

Pilkington reported that Trump in a statement released by is campaign office proposed to ban entry of Muslims to US as they pose a threat to country and people living in United States. Pilkington stated that to justify his claims to banning Muslims Trump presented polling which showed hatred of Muslims towards Americans (Pilkington 2015). Pilkington reports Trump saying “Shariah authorizes such atrocities as murder against non-believers …show more content…

According to Reid, counter-myth is the reinterpretations of old myths in terms the society now recognizes those ideas (Hexham, counter myths, 27 Jan 2016). Myths are stories that affect people’s lives as described Irving Hexham and Karla Poewe in the book “New Religions as Global Cultures”(Hexham &Poewe 1997, 174). Hexham and Poewe aver that “The importance of myths lie not with the particular qualities of the story itself, but with the use which is made of the story. When a story acts upon the imagination of an individual or collectivity in such a powerful way that it begins to shape their lives, moulding their thoughts and directing their actions” (Hexham &Poewe 1997,175). Trump’s statement is representing counter-myth in action; Trump is using the action of some extremists to reinterpreting the idea of all Muslims being violent, that all Muslims hate America to serve his political agenda. The message he is sending out, whether or not its true is changing the basic beliefs about Americans toward Muslims. These beliefs are bound to influence their actions and can provoke a reaction that otherwise would not be a norm.

I believe that such views will have damaging effects on social life and relations between people. People rely on their personal beliefs, myths, to shape their thoughts about other individuals and communities. Redefining these views, counter-myths,

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