Religious Discrimination in Modern Society

The First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution provides citizens the liberty to practice religion free from government intervention, and the Civil Rights Act of 1964 have taken that freedom from those who practice religion. This act prevents businesses from practicing their religion publicly. Discriminating the practice of someone’s religion is an intolerance to their beliefs. Religion is popularly viewed as an unequal identifier when compared to their race, gender, and/or sexual orientation. This is the result of a narrow-minded society that beliefs religion is a means to discriminate

Being a Muslim in America country is a struggle, and ever since 9/11, things have taken a turn for Muslims. When Trump was elected president, the discrimination against Muslims has grown stronger. People need to be educated about Muslim culture and eliminate the perception that every Muslim is a “terrorist.” The community I am looking towards on the University of Kentucky campus is the MSA. The MSA is the Muslim Student Association and their goal is to promote Islam and teach us all about the peaceful nature of the religion. Throughout my paper these 5 sources that I researched played a major role in the Muslim community. My first source was a video called Muslim leaders speak out after mosque fire. My second source was an article called Young

Religious restrictions are on the increase globally the PEW research conducted in 2011 uncovered (Pew Research Center 2012). The

The religion is being used to discriminate people in the United States of America. Religious people refuse to help women and LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered) people based on the religious beliefs of the religious people. In many places such as schools, pharmacies, photo studios, and bridal salons are firing and closing their doors to people who are not following their religious beliefs. For religious people do not join with those who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender. People are using the religion as an excuse to discriminate the people to their sexual orientations and how people live their lives. An example about the religious discrimination was in the 1960s, when people were objecting to the integration in the restaurants and public places. Those religious people believed that God wanted the races to be separated and not allowing the interracial dating. In America, the religious freedom means to have the right to choose any religious beliefs, but it does not mean the right to discriminate to others and impose their beliefs to who do not believe them or share them. The ACLU

With the concept of "all men are created equal," our founding fathers had envisioned an idealistic utopian country where our unalienable and natural rights can't be infringed. The concept was truly appealing to American citizens, but unfortunately, it was written with only straight and wealthy white men in mind at the time. Discrimination was clearly a huge factor in why this concept and statement is considered a hypocrisy. Women, people of color, different religious beliefs, and the LGBT community had experienced discrimination for many decades since the signing of the Declaration of Independence. It's not to say that our country hasn't made any progress, but it sure definitely doesn't live up to the expectations of equality for all. Some

Generally people or groups become stigmatized when they are singled out from their communities or their social environments. Being stigmatic is not a way to win over moral acceptance. When individuals are “set out” or even profiled they often feel as if they have been uprooted and a subject of discrimination. Which makes them loose faith in there government. Moral repercussions like this effect individuals and communities as a whole and can have serious and negative impacts when groups or individuals speak out and acknowledge the discrimination. This can lead to social or cultural tensions within a governed body.

Due to being discriminated some jobs will not hire people because of their religion. In my opinion this is a real problem, you cannot judge a person based on their religion. Many people of different religions have fled from places that discriminate them only to find more people judging them where they go next. I have experienced this a couple of

The article called Religion, Meaning and Prejudice was written by Bruce Hunsberger and Lynne M. Jackson and published in 2005. The purpose of this article is to analyze the links between religion and prejudice that have been interpreted to suggest that religion can both reduce and exacerbate prejudice and to provide an analysis of religion as a meaning system that illustrates how religion can affect intergroup attitudes. The target population the article is geared towards other psychologists. The article begins with the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City and the Pentagon in Washington D.C. on September 11, 2001 and how people were affected while trying to understand what happened that day. The role of religion- based

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints- more commonly known as The Mormon church, has always received a bad reputation when it comes to discrimation. Since the early 1900’s, the church, some due to the events in the outside world, made mistakes while growing into the church it is today. One of the major issues that society has with the church is how selective the church was in the past and is today to the members of the church, though the members have accepted it fully, and do not oppose it. Today, society widely dislikes- and almost fears- the church and how it works today, just as much as they did almost one hundred years ago, because of those mistakes and rules due to revelation and doctrine in the church.

Have you ever thought about how many Muslims are discriminated on a day to day basis? On account of discrimination, it’s a prejudiced or prejudicial outlook, action or treatment and this is based on the Merriam Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary. Discrimination against Muslims majorly happens in the MDC’s and core countries in the Northern hemisphere. Those Countries are predominantly a Christian based nations and so they consider Muslims violent based on past experience and start discriminating all Muslims even though only few are violent.

Workplaces must make reasonable religious accommodations for their employees. While this calls into the question the definition of “reasonable,” I believe that a codified agreement in an employment contract would suffice. As such, accommodations must be discussed before an actual contract is signed. This ensures that both sides are aware of the accommodations and that the general course of business in the workplace is not impeded.

Although many organizations forbid religious express, it is almost impossible to stop an employee from thinking about their religious commitments (Hick, 2003). Understanding how individuals are influenced by their religion and how that affects the work environment is vital for leaders to avoid conflict within the workplace. In higher education, practicing religious pluralism at work is essential because of the diverse groups of people that are involved in the higher education workforce.

Discrimination is defined as negative attitudes or behavior between people with differences. Frequently, opponents label each other with spiteful words. However religious discrimination can lead to violence. Many times religious discrimination can cause judgment during employment, limited educational opportunities, and restrictive social interaction. Throughout the centuries, Judaism, Catholicism, and Islam have been negatively persecuted by numerous communities. Religious discrimination has impeded the right and ability of Jews’, Catholics’, and Muslims’ to practice freedom of religion rights worldwide. One of the most horrific examples of discrimination resulted from discrimination against Jews, and was called The Holocaust. Catholics

Why is religious persecution becoming so big lately? Since ISIS has come about the number of people being persecuted for their religion has skyrocketed. The extremist group ISIS is an anti-Semitic group of people. That target Christians, Jews, and other religions. The terrorist group believe that by killing they will receive life.

There is discrimination everywhere at anytime, anywhere in the world. Discrimination can occur in many ways due to different opinions and perspectives. One of them occurs by religion of different people. Religious discrimination is to treat someone differently with others in a bad way due to their religion or beliefs.There are lots of religious discrimination around the world. People should be against religious discrimination because it keeps people from harassment on their religious beliefs, prevent less wars happening, and people will correct their stereotypes on others.