Reasons For Persecution Caused By Religion

Following the terrorist attacks of 9/11, Muslims everywhere began to be wrongfully persecuted and attacked. They have also since been denied equality in the workplace as “Americans with Muslim names have a harder time finding a job” and “American Muslims have experienced increased job discrimination since 2001” (Epstein 53). Without the ability to find a job, not only are Muslims effected in their daily lives, they are also unable to find a source of income, hindering them from supporting their families. Muslim religion can also cause further disturbances because there are several “law-abiding Muslims who are unfairly targeted and punished simply because they are Muslim” (qtd. in Epstein 52). This exemplifies the idea

Many of the ancient and historical conflicts are believed to be connected to religion in a various ways and proven that religion can be used as an excuse for violence. For instance, The Crusade Wars ended in the brutality of both Christians and Muslims during the mass dispute (Burton 1984). The Jews have perpetrated massacres through nations for the solitary reason to attain their belief. During the reformation of Christians thousands of people were killed because of their religion. In Yugoslavia, the war in 1991 pitted Orthodox Christians, Muslims, and Catholics against each other in a brutal combat (Avalos 2005). Also, thousands of monks were being persecuted in Burma

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.”

These examples show that there is in fact a real threat to Christians worldwide. Some countries and parts of the world are not safe for Christians. Some countries ban Christianity as a whole, other countries ban religion in general. In both situations, Christians are open to persecution and therefore are always facing the possibility of persecution, which in some cases can be bodily harm or even

The Crusades, a war for the holy land of Jerusalem, was the impetus for a centuries long relationship between Islamophobia and Islamic extremism. In recent history there has been multiple cases of violent extremism, one notable case would be the attacks of September 11 2001. This attack and the following wars on terror after the event, the wars of Iraq and Afghanistan, have generated a terrible mountain of hate and fear, namely Islamophobia. With the advent of Islamophobia, violent extremism rises with a direct relationship between the two. The friction between them produces dire consequences. A cycle of fear and hate tears at the heart of the world, Islamophobia and Islamic extremism have a direct relationship cycle and it will take multiple

In “The Worldwide Attack on Christians,” David Aikman highlighted the different forms of religious persecution suffered by Christians throughout the world. The forms of persecution ranged from political oppression to gruesome murders. Additionally, Aikman provided a list of culprits that included familiar Islamic nations but also less familiar non-Muslim regimes. Further, he examined several factors undermining the U.S. State Department’s and President Barack Obama’s obligation to thwart religious persecution happening abroad.

Throughout the first four centuries, Christianity began to plant its roots and establish itself as a legitimate religious presence. However, just as the Christians battled other religious presences over what are correct teachings and practices, they also were prompted by the Roman Empire to conform or face consequences. These consequences came in the form of a series of persecutions, which in turn, triggered different responses from the Christians.

The Islamic faith has come under (unjust) mass scrutiny within the last thirty years with the rise of religious extremist terrorist groups such as Al Qaeda (AQ), Boko Haram and ISIS that use the principle of ‘jihad’ as motivation for their violence. Although we are right to fear these groups for their hatred of secular society and their willingness to murder (what Western society considers to be) innocent people, the Western world is at fault for sensationalizing and generalizing one billion Muslim believers as terrorists, which is simply not the case. Because of major terrorist attacks executed by the aforementioned groups within the last seventeen years (for example, 9/11, the 2014 shooting at Parliament Hill in Ottawa, the 2015 Charlie

The most famous of the major events that have had the most influence on Christian persecution occurred centuries ago. However, despite this fact, there is a multitude of major events that have taken place during the 21st Century. These events did not influence persecutions, as they are nothing new at all. Rather, they served to more strictly and effectively enforce the laws of Islamic sharia and discourage apostasy ( conscious conversion from Islam to Christianity) throughout countries in the Middle East such as Afghanistan, Egypt, Iran, and Saudi Arabia. Some of the more recent events that have spread hostility toward Christians includes the murder of British charity worker, Gayle Williams, in 2008, and in 2006, when “Sunni extremists in Baghdad’s Dora neighborhood issued a fatwa specifically giving this choice of conversion or death to two thousand resident Christian families” (“Barbarism 2014: On Religious Cleansing by Islamists”). As for Gayle Williams, she was shot and killed by two Islamic Men in Afghanistan. “The Taliban took responsibility for the shooting and said it was because Miss Williams was trying to "preach Christianity" in a conservative Islamic nation” (“British Aid Worker: Gayle Williams' Mother Pays Tribute to Daughter Shot in Afghanistan”). Such events have certainly contributed to some kind of hostile influence projected at those who introduced anything new to the Islamic regions.

After the brutal attack on the United States, known as 9/11, hatred toward Muslims has grown. As a result, people have been attacking Muslims verbally and physically for carrying the same religion of some vicious extremists that honestly are a disgrace to the religion of Islam. Nonetheless, 1.6 billion Muslims should not take the consequences and suffer from

“For the third year in a row, the modern persecution of Christians worldwide has hit another record high” according to Christianity Today (Persecution in the Early Church). Right now, it is very dangerous to be a Christian in some countries of the world. Countries in Asia and the Middle East show the most violence towards Christians. If history really does repeat itself, Christianity will grow in numbers and in faith. More people will convert and the religion as a whole will be strengthened. This current issue can be related to Christian persecution starting in 64 AD which became most prominent in the Roman Empire. Christians have continued to be persecuted sporadically throughout history.

“Freedom is a fragile thing and is never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by inheritance; it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation, for it comes only once to a people. Those who have known freedom and then lost it have never known it again,” this quote was made in 1767 by Ronald Reagan and has never been truer (ReaganSpeech). In his speech at the world summit, Vice President, Mike Pence made this remark, “No people of faith today face greater hostility or hatred than the followers of Christ.” (WhiteHouse) So, what exactly does this mean? Christian persecution is classified as “any hostility experienced from the world as a result of one’s identification as a Christian. From verbal harassment to hostile feelings, attitudes and actions,” (“Christian Persecution”). Christians today are being persecuted by the government by being forced to fund programs and provide services for groups that go against their beliefs, denied the right to talk about their faith in public educational buildings, and susceptible to having symbols of their faith removed or vandalized.

Over simplifications of religion and violence often lead to misguided understandings and exaggerations of causes for why some people commit violence and why most do not commit violence. Overall, religious violence is perpetrated for a wide variety of ideological reasons and is generally only one of the contributing social and political factors that leads to unrest.” In other words, the entire society tends to find religious violence as terrorism. They tend to ask how there is people who can cause many danger and hurt others without being consent of how many people suffer from it. In the article titled “How We Misunderstand the Sources of Religious Violence” by Adam Garfinkle published in December 19, 2016 in the Foreign Policy Research Institute, the author states that “In these days and in this country, when most people hear the phrase “sources of religious violence,” they tend to conflate religious violence with terrorism, tend to assume that the principal source of that violence is “religious” in nature, and tend to focus their attention on violence perpetrated in the name of Islam. These conflations are

Despite all of the modern universal changes and although universal declaration of human rights has recognized the right of manifestation of the religion , still there are religious conflicts around the world. There still happen revolutions with religious bases. People are still deprived of the right of applying their religion, while some other are being killed because of their religion views. These happenings can trigger the idea that there should be a special provision in protection of religious liberties. It seems to me that there is not any specialty in religion that should be protected more. However, according to our experiences around the world, there are some features and potential risks in the nature of religion that necessitate

The persecution of Christians is a specific example that occurs constantly in our society. They are focused on more than some other group of devotees. Between a half and 66% of Christians in the Middle East have withdrawn or been executed over the previous century.Each month's statistics show that about 300 Christians are persecuted for what they believe in. They are the most persecuted group in the world for the second year. According to activists, the Christian population in Iraq alone can be deceased soon due to the