Essay On 9/11

During the years of post-9/11, Americans have started to become wary of non-Americans in their home land of the fear of another terrorist attacks. The 9/11 attacks have changed American views on the muslims and on the Middle East. It also had made security regulation more strict and discriminatory. Since post-9/11, Americans the wrong impression of the Middle East and have negative views of it and also have stereotype of it as well.

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America’s viewpoint on the Muslim group of people was significantly prejudiced by post 9/11. The entire Muslim community was vision negatively as of the events that was taken by Al Qaeda an international terrorist group formed by Osama Bin Laden. Soon, subsequent to the bombing of the twin towers, primary awareness of Muslims habitually originated from labels relating to the Middle East as a whole. According to “Affective Politics after 9/11” Todd Hall proposed that 9/11 was a sensitively prominent event that created an emotional shock wave. He believed the original place of influence were the countless effective reaction of people in the United States who has watched the series of terrorist attacks unfold and causes Americans to view Muslims

However, there are hundreds of people across the nation who have decided to discriminate Muslims because of the terrorist attack. There was a major increase in anti-Islamic violence after the attacks (Villemez). In 2000, there were a reported 28 hate crimes towards Islamic people, whereas that number jumped to 481 in 2001 (Villemez). In a survey done, a majority of Muslims have experienced verbal harassments and increased airport security (Villemez). Prior to 9/11, 80% of Americans opposed racial profiling, but that same number turned to support discrimination against those who were assumed to be Arab or Muslim (“A Rage Shared by Law”, 1267).

In the airports, Muslim people became “the usual suspects”, were thoroughly searched and often interrogated. In her article, O’Connor claims that the lives of American Muslims changed forever, and the statement is hard to disagree with (“How 9/11 Changed These Muslim Americans’ Lives Forever.”) Those who had nothing to do with the September 11 attacks, their children and grandchildren were sentenced to face racism, hate and violence.

Third, after the September 11 attack, the relationship has undergone some profound changes between America and other countries especially with Middle East, Afghanistan and Pakistan. Political people in Saudi Arabia did not accept what happened in the United States and other countries have been exposed to violence. In addition, people a treatment became very rude with Muslims because they thought Muslims are agree with American's situation. For example, my uncle came with his family in 2003; they faced a lot of problems with American people. Also, while his wife was wearing Islamic dress, she got a lot of harassments from citizens. So, they could not stay more than one week then they decided to travel to Canada to complete their vacation. In my experience, sometimes old people called terrorist because I wearing Islamic costume. However, after 9\11 Muslim people did many important things for American people. Also, Muslim people

Past acts of terrorism done by foreigners have provoked fear throughout the American people. 9/11 is one example that brought upon a negative change. After the 9/11 terrorist attacks Americans were scared of foreigners, especially any person that was Islamic, coming into the country. The 9/11 attack caused Americans to associate any Islamic person with being a terrorist. This provoked a change in airport security. According to the article “To Combat ISIS, Welcome Syrians”, Anne Speckhard explains how the negative connotation with the Islamic religion has made it very hard for the innocent Syrians fleeing their country to seek asylum in the U.S. “We have failed to enact efficient practices and sufficient resources to allay our fears that within

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.”

Airline security has been a big change since the incident because that is where the terrorists were able to take control and attack. ¨Sure it is unpleasant to be a suspect when you're innocent. But it's worse to overlook terrorists because we ignored their pertinent characteristics.¨ (Chavez 61). Chavez makes a compelling argument that it's better to be safe than sorry when selecting someone with Middle Eastern characteristics for questioning but she does not seem to take into consideration that some may interpret this as security holding someone based on their looks rather than a suspicious person. ¨...American foreign and domestic policy has been reformed to tighten borders, increase security networks, and systematically target “terrorism” the world over.¨ (Young 5). With the Government tightening security and reforming foreign and domestic policies after September 11th, they are targeting ¨terrorism¨ in hopes of taking away the ¨resources” they might have acquired in an airport, eliminating any threat they might pose to national security. With the reformations of U.S. policies the government has taken to tightening its security and borders out of fear for another attack, this fear has lead to racism take control of what what and who is considered a

In today’s world, it takes hours to get on a plane. While present day airport security measures are perfectly understandable and provide more safety, they take away people’s time and infringe on their private rights. There is also more attention paid towards Muslims (Green). Muslims are put in an unfair spotlight and usually get more scrutiny from security and other people due to stereotypes and extreme paranoia. Airports are safer today, everyone can agree on that, but the stress and tension that high security measures generate is unnecessary and creates irrational fear and

In recent years we have seen drastic changes occur in our country. Since the terrorist attack on the twin towers we have seen many changes take place in everyday situations. Homeland Security was established. There are security checks at airports; a tedious procedure ensuring everyone’s safety at airports and safety during traveling. The minds of American citizens have turned a cold shoulder to Muslims or anyone who bears a turban. Fear, prejudice and intolerance has spread through our country since the 9/11 attacks. Wars spread like wild fire in the Middle East, the United States entered a war on terror. The budget on defense spending has risen immensely and some economists debate that this large spending had some effect on the recent recession America has faced. Citizens also feel the effects of the Patriot Act and other legislation that allow government intrusions, reducing our civil rights and such ideals as “a personal life”. As citizens and even the government blame Muslims for the attack and the Middle East in general. However, what has America or even the West done that has influenced the Middle East? Present news is surrounded, engulfed in issues of the Middle East and how it affects the Western part of the world—nations like the United States of America, France and the United Kingdom. It is pretty obvious when we live it, how much we are influenced by the events of the “Middle East” or what we define as the Middle East.

Within days of the attacks every news channel was showing pictures of the hijackers. From these pictures Americans turned their fear and hatred on to anyone who looked like the attackers. During the process of adjusting to the aftermath of September 11, Muslim Americans faced an upsurge in negative stereotypes expressed by the larger society (American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, 2003; Cassel, 2006) and Muslim immigrants, more than any other Immigrant group, were met with negative attitudes (Council of American Islamic Relations, 2003; Saroglou & Galand, 2004). But there is still discrimination present throughout the U.S , we all see it on the news or in person at school. There language is different so people discriminate against them. It does not matter if you are actually Arab or if you just look Arab or had a foreign name that sounded Arab they would look at you bad. This was a problem at airports, jobs, and schools because people were suspicious. Life was hard for Arab-Americans because people could not trust them. Many Arab- Americans and those who looked like Arabs were directly and adversely

After the events the immense population of Arabic, Pakistani, Bengalese and people from Muslim majority countries despite their different backgrounds were looked to as potential terrorists (Maira). According to Maira’s, “Youth culture, Citizenship, and Globalization” the youth from these countries are usually the one that will work and study at the same time but also, the ones that will support America (Maira). An example is Sohali, an Indian Muslim immigrant, who works and study but does have relations with the other communities. However, after the events he like many other youths are being labeled as potential terrorists while also thinking if they are the enemies. On another point of the attacks effects, it led to racializing citizenship as Leti Volpp states that Muslium or Middle Eastern groups are now being labeled as terrorists and non-citizens (Maira 345). For all the Arabic, Muslim, and South Asian that are living in America, after the attack they were forced to live their lives in fear due to racial and religious profiling of being labeled as a terrorist. As these people are not only immigrants but rather people who are coming to help support their family back home but also their hosting country. Which to this day are still being categorized as terrorists due to racial and religious profiling that goes beyond the conventional model of black and white

Historians, specifically American historians of the 21st century have demonstrated an interest in the Middle East in Islam, due to Americans frequent contact with the Middle East in the early 1960s. Islam and the Middle East have played a remarkable role in Americans discussion and reaction to the events that took place on September 11th, 2001. During this time Americans were beginning to regard the Middle East, Muslims, and Islam as one entity. Americans and the world regarded the Middle East as Islam and Islam as the Middle East. Thus, this correlation between the two made Muslims say Muslim Americans and Muslims in America as less western and more of another, but they were also seen as untrustworthy individuals. Additionally, prior to the September 11th, attacks and an after effect of September 11, was that Muslim men were violent and Muslim women as oppressed individuals. Thus, the perception of Islamophobia and the threat it brings to western society has impacted the discussion of Islamophobia in America.

Over the past years, many events have perpetuated images in Americans mind that all Arabs are terrorists. The most recognizable event is 9/11. Ever sense then the country has been more cautious about terrorist attacks. There has been more security at big events. The TSA has more security checkpoints passengers have to go through for example the explosive detector which you have to walk into it and stand with your arms out and it shoots air up. What it looks for is explosives. Another thing that stared after 9/11 is screening. They are people who watch passengers go through security and if someone looks like they might have an alleviative other than flying they go through a screening. In a show called “30 days” a man had to act like an Arab for thirty days. Before he left he had to dress like an Arab. When he got to the airport people looked at him funny and even though he