The United States, India, Pakistan And The Soviet Union

There are many misconceptions regarding Islam and Muslims. In reality most Muslims are non-Arabs and most live outside the Middle East. There are five million Muslims in the United States. There are an estimated 10,000-15,000 Muslims in the area.

The United States and Communist Russia endured a complicated relationship in the first half of the 20th century. In the early 1940’s the U.S. had encouraged an alliance with the Soviets against their common enemy, Nazi Germany. This short-lived accord began to deteriorate as WW II ended. By 1947 U.S. policy toward the Soviet Union had shifted from one of cooperation to a policy of containment. In 1949, when the Soviets tested their first atomic bomb, it was a widely-held belief in the U.S. that the Russians were an untrustworthy enemy with plans to invade the United States. America’s mood turned on American Communists, labeling them traitors and Russian spies. Underlying a domestic sense of well-being in the United States in the 1950’s

Being a Muslim-American in post 9/11 America has been turbulent. Like most children, I longed to fit in and be accepted, but I also wanted to preserve my native cultural roots. The odds were against me as I struggled to find balance in a place that could barely tolerate me as a child, and would hold deep seated fear of me as an adult. In an attempt to combat this growing reality, I tried looking to the mosques. However, the local mosques were, instead of religious areas, cultural centers, and when the Afghan community in Chicago is non-existent, I remained confused as a Muslim in and out of the mosque.

Working with the Muslim American population a social worker should apply the skill of cultural competence. A social worker demonstrating the skill of cultural competence is important when working with Muslim Americans because it allows the social worker to grow in his or her awareness. Growing in the awareness of the Muslim American population is of key importance as it allows the social worker to exceedingly help the client and getting to know the client in depth. With that being said, Muslim Americans have cultural values that may affect the treatment options and the way the social worker communicates with the client; illustrating the importance of the social worker growing in his or her awareness in the clients culture.

Muslim Americans are people whose religious belief is Islam, but they were born in America. Before September 11, 2001, Muslim Americans were rarely a discussion or a problem. However after September 11, 2001, Muslim Americans were the main topic. Even though Islam is a religious belief, people are fearful of anything associated with it. Some people discriminate against people who resemble those who are practice the religion. Even though it is not relevant to race, the difference between racism; and religious discrimination is often unclear to people. People believe that terrorists are Muslim activists, but that’s wrong because not all terrorists are Muslims.

Muslim immigrants have arrived to the United States of America from every nuke and corner of the sphere. The population is diverse in their own ways but each one of them bears similar reasons: Some desire to escape an old way of life, others to find a new one. Some wanted to escape violence, others the fetters of penury, or simple lack of opportunity. They have arrived with fervent hope, and often nothing more. The initial response received by them was largely varied. These new Americans found a vast new land hungry for their labor. But some, unfamiliar with these newcomers’ customs and religions, treated the new Americans as outsiders and believed they could never be real Americans. And with the events like the Gulf War and the World Trade Center bombing outpoured anti-Islamic sentiments in the 1990s. These sentiments intensified with the heinous and abominable attacks of September 11th. Muslims were being labeled as “extremists”, “jihadists”, “fanatics”, “fundamentalists” etc. They were being feared, discriminated and even harassed.

Today, there are close to six million Muslims living in the United States. In the video Flying While Muslim: Racial Profiling Post 9/11 (2007), it is clear to see that ever since

Out of the 318.9 million people that currently occupy The United States of America, more than 41.3 million are immigrants. Even though many have contributed lots to American culture, they are stereotyped and hated on by lots of people. A large portion of people who are victims of this hate are Muslims. They face lots of judgement, stereotyping, and prejudice. In order to rid the modern challenges that Middle Eastern people and Muslims face, America needs to teach one another to promote respect for Muslims and Middle Eastern people, reduce public misconceptions about Middle Eastern culture, and eliminate hate crimes against them.

According to a Gallup Poll from 2008, out of the 319751 respondents only 946 identified as Muslim, which is around .29 percent of the respondents. In the Gallup report, they also mention that 35% of Muslim-Americans are African American, 18% are Asian, it is not broken down into whether it is South Asian or East Asian, and 18% is other.

For instance, generalizing the radical thought of some Arab people in the Middle East to be identified with the Arab Americans cannot help the psychotherapist to be unbiased treating the client. Hence, there is a need for a multicultural mental health theory, which focuses on stepping out your own beliefs, stereotypes, assumptions, and attitudes. It highly considers how the client will deal with being treated on a biased background base. However, a successful psychotherapist studies the detailed information about the cultural, religious and sociopolitical practices of Arab Americans and offers specific solutions to offering effective culturally related mental health services to Arab American clients in America.

America has diverse home for all religions. There are diverse Muslims population all over the world, including people of ethnicity, country and international students, that are citizens of America. According to studies, Muslims population is about .8% of the population, that is 2.6 million Muslims are in US in 2010. Thirty percent of Muslims American population are African Americans whose parents were born in America. Overall, 23% muslim american identity is black. Muslims are all over United State; careers such such as doctors, lawyers, nurses, even the highest positions, congress. Muslims who migrated to America seek for economic opportunities and democratic

In 1900, the world was made up of 12.3 % Muslims. In 2010, The number rose to 22.5% making Islam the fastest growing religion in the entire world, exceeding even the growth rate of Christianity. The American Muslim Council has estimated that there are 2,000 mosques and Islamic community centers in the United States. More than 80% percent have been built in the past 12 years.

As the Middle East continues to be ravaged by war and extremist threats, over 1.2 million Pakistanis have been displaced, primarily due to insurgencies in north-west Pakistan. After traveling through Iran and Turkey by foot and bus and finally spending two years in a refugee camp in Greece, a 40-year-old Pakistani teacher, her husband, and two pre-teen children finally arrive in the United States. As they begin to settle into their new home, an organization I work with has enlisted me to aid them in transitioning to their new home. They self-identify as followers of Islam, observing most all rules of the faith, yet are unadmitted unsatisfied and distant in their faith.

India is located in Southeast Asia by the Arabian and Bengal Sea and is bordered by Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, and Burma. The country was previously colonized by the British and obtained independence in 1947, leading to the formation of a sovereign India. The country was later further divided into three distinct nations: Pakistan, India, and Bangladesh (Hoshiar, 2013). Present day India, as of July 2016, is home to a population of 1,266,883,598 individuals with roughly a 1:1 ratio of males to females (CIA). This ratio can be seen in the Population Pyramid for the country due to it being greater at the bottom then at the top and the left side (males) is being roughly equal to the right side (females). According to the CIA website, there is a 1.19% increase in population every year in India, which equates to roughly 2,500,000 people. India continues to grow rapidly, but there is still a divide present between males and females even though the ratio is the same. Males are held in higher esteem due to their image as the breadwinners of the family, whereas females are generally regarded as homemakers first and foremost. This stigma can be seen in the current literacy rate in India. The current rate is 81.6% literacy among men and 60.6% among women (CIA). The difference in the literacy rate between the two is roughly 20%. Despite the number of males and females receiving primary school education being the same, the education gap increases, as the children get older.

Only 18% of Muslims live in the Arab world; a fifth are found in Sub-Saharan Africa; and the world's largest Muslim community is in Indonesia.