Islam And Stereotypes

Due to the Anti-Muslim sentiments rising around the United States, many American Muslims have been killed, or severely wounded in hate crimes. Asma Jama, a Muslim woman, was having dinner with her family in an Applebee's restaurant as she was approached by a woman who was upset over the fact that Asma was not speaking English. The situation escalated, and “As Jama waited for her pasta Alfredo, a woman at a nearby booth smashed a beer mug in her face” (Ibrahim). Asma was left heartbroken and confused as blood poured out of the deep cuts on her lip. Amidst the increasing Islamophobia, it is the women who faced the most hate, and are more likely to become victims of Islamophobic attacks. Women who wear the burqa, a popular type of clothing in

The stereotype of a ‘typical Muslim’ is bordering the assumption that ‘they are all the same’ and ‘that Islam poses a very dangerous threat to Britain and ‘its people’. Events this year such as the shootings at Charlie Hebdo and in Tunisia, alongside the brutal beheadings and other atrocities carried out by IS only support this small minded view. Sensational news sells, unfortunately, and so as long as Muslims, Islam and it’s fanatical strain continue to be sensational, so will the claims made by the media. It’s a bitter cycle and I don’t see it ending any time

Islam is one of the most misunderstood religions in the United States due to stereotypes. Not many Americans have actually taken the time to learn firsthand about the Islamic religion. Typically Muslims pray five times a day;however they attend mosque on Fridays. I have never been inside a mosque and I was very surprised with what I saw. Since visiting the mosque I learned important lessons that I will remember for years to come.

There was once a time in my life where I had judged a certain racial group by a ¨ single story¨. Social media had altered the appearance of the Muslim community. Muslims were altered to appear as terrorists, suicide bombers, and a great threat to the United States. Because of social media altering the Muslims´ appearance, this had made me view Muslims in a very negative manner. I saw Muslims as the way they were portrayed by the internet, a group of terrorists, suicide bombers, and a threat to our country. However, my false opinion had soon changed when I met a Muslim in person, she was the kindest woman I had ever met. I had also taken a liking to her culture as well meeting her family and getting to know them well had completely changed my

I commend you on how you handled that situation! Being a Muslim I unfortunately run into situations similar to this. Especially while in high school where the crowd was mostly younger teenagers who weren't familiar with other cultures. I've been faced with nasty comments, discrimination and negative views of Islam that stemmed from the many misconceptions of the religion. At first I didn't know how to respond, but that's when effective communication came in handy. Instead of lasting out, I chose to educate those people because some of their comments were made simply because they didn't know any better. I found that after talking to them and providing accurate information of my religion, they walked away with a better understanding of my beliefs.

On 9/11, 19 Muslim extremist hijackers carried out an attack on the WTC in New York and took the lives of their own people as well as every other race. These men were called terrorists, but that was not enough for Americans. The entire population of Muslims were labeled as terrorists and from 9/11/2001; average Americans firmly supported the idea of Islamaphobia. Islamaphobia is the fear of people who believe in Islam. It is a fear that haunts many people in the world today. While media, politicians, and military leaders endlessly speak about the Taliban, Bin Laden, Arabs, and Islam, we are making our conclusions based on what we hear. An average American might assume by watching television and reading newspapers that Islamic fundamentalism is some kind of mental illness and every Arab-looking man is a threat to society. I

A common misconception among many people is the stereotype that all Muslims are terrorists. This is due to how the media portrays them in modern day. Most recent large scale attacks are linked back to Muslims and people in the Middle East. The definition of a terrorist is as follows; a person that commits a large scale attack on a certain place or group of people. So in saying that only Muslims can be terrorists is a false statement. There have been many horrible attacks done to Americans by Americans.

Within 8th grade at Lovett, misinformation and stereotypes about Muslims are rife. This can be attributed to the fact that the issue is commonplace in the news, with more than one right-wing politician spreading dangerous stereotypes, wanting to treat Muslims differently, and pushing to deny them access to several things. The main problem lately is the ignorant people who use Muslims as a scapegoat, spread misinformation, and pin unrelated and/or problems that only stem from extremists on all Muslims. Donald Trump, an infamous example, has proposed banning Muslims from all travel to the U.S. He has also called for surveillance of mosques and having all Muslims register themselves to be put in a database. He claims that this is to protect the United States from terrorists, but the number of extremist Muslims who would commit those crimes is very small, much smaller than the number of peaceful Muslims living in the United States. While Ted Cruz doesn’t want to outright ban them from travelling here forever, he does support restrictions on immigration from majority Muslim countries and even a 3 year ban for all of them. He has once even wanted to force all people immigrating to the U.S.

The article released by the office of the press security and is written by President Obama and is part of his Address to the nation speech. The part of the President’s speech that stuck out was when he said “ these terrorist groups don’t represent anyone, ISIL does not speak for Islam ” President Obama is one of the smartest people because all these terrorist groups like ISIS, Al Qaeda, and ISIL don't represent Islam as the true religion it is. All these groups all say they're doing it for Islam, but most Muslims haven’t done anything wrong. Most of the United States population is mostly immigrants from all over the world we will be looking at the good, bad and ugly shown by the media and Muslims themselves ISIL does not represent Islam. There are negative stereotypes of Muslims that are sometimes incorrect.

This exaggerated fear, hatred, and hostility toward Islam and Muslims is perpetuated by negative stereotypes resulting in bias, discrimination, and the marginalization and exclusion of Muslims from social, political, and civic life in America (Latham 2016). The fact that the media, especially journalist, create and promote such stereotype in their broadcasts and writing, I think plays a major role in fostering negative views of Islam- Which is why it is imperative that Muslims should reveal to the world that Islam is not what they think it is but that it is a

These are some examples where some leaders have made discriminatory statements against Muslims and it doesn’t aim at Muslims only of certain region but, it points to Muslims all over the world. Leaders are chosen by the people to represent the people, but not to create hatred and fear amongst the people for political or any other reasons. Such statements made by great leaders have a great impact on the beliefs of people, as we believe in our leaders and therefore even theirs words are taken into consideration sometimes without a rational thinking. This doesn’t affect just the mindset of people but it terribly shapes the attitudes, behaviours, philosophy and even their idea of a religion. This affects the lives of Muslims all over the world; they are not just labelled as terrorist but even treated as one. Innocent Muslims are viewed with suspicion because of misinformation and prevalent stereotyping.

According to the JS article, only twenty-seven percent of Americans view Muslim-Americans favorably. A negative stereotype that Americans have on Muslims leads to this issue. However, this problem might disappear if two main this continue to occur.

Nowadays, as soon as the smoothening word ‘religion' is uttered people conjure images calculating created by the media, often this is associated with injustice, discrimination and distortion: they think of ‘distrustful Muslims', the 9/11 incident, which despite media reports and so-called ‘evidence' has not yet verified that Muslim ‘terrorist' elites were the culprits of such a crime; they also think of the London bombings which again have accused ‘terrorising Muslims' to be the suspect of. Furthermore, the media: they illustrate a common suspect of a suicide bombing who barbarically and

2.)Islam is a monotheistic religion. Belief in one God as the only deity of worship is the central teaching of Islam (Dian Alyan, Shahid Bolsen, Dr. Timothy Tennent). Islam came to completion in a revelation given by their God to a prophet named Muhammad. The Islam God is called Allah. Allah means God in Arabic. People who practice Islam are called Muslims.

Before coming to the United States, I never knew that Muslims were seen as terrorist and they were so much prejudice, hate and dislike toward Muslims. My family is really religious, at a young age I started learning the Qur’an, how to accomplish the five prayers and the importance that it has in my life. Until the maturity age you dot not understand everything that you are studying as it is in Arabic and it helps avoid misinterpretation. Sometimes people do know understand that the things you read in the Qur’an do not mean what you think they mean, there are books that give you the real interpretation. As a Muslim I believe that sometimes, people do not really see me for who I am in part because of the influence of the media, it created lots of stereotype not only toward Muslim and the problem is that those stereotypes do not allow us to see people for who they really are. Muslim and Arabs are stereotyped to belong to the same group. Muslim are people who believe in Islam and Arabs are people who speak Arabic language and can embrace whatever faith or religion that cause. One of the reasons why the two terms Arabs and Muslim create confusion is because of the that Islam was born in the Middle East and the prophet Mohammed is from Saudi Arabia. On top of that lot of Arabs live in the Middle East and can practice any religion.