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Violence Is A Quality And Characteristic Of Mankind

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Violence is a quality and characteristic of mankind. Islam has certainly had it fair share of violence, particularly since the religion inception in the 7th century just like any other religion like Christianity and Judaism. ISIS, al-Qaida, book Haram etc., are violent non-state terrorist actors who have used the name of Islam to justify their intolerable crimes and action around the world. Their actions are affecting more than 3billion of Muslim lives in today’s world?
While international terrorism started before 9/11, terrorism association with Islam was often limited to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict or other factor that did not associate with Islam globally. “On the domestic front, homegrown terrorism evoked images of white males …show more content…

Once this shift in the public 's perception occurred mostly because of media coverage, criticism and adverse treatment of Muslims went from being considered bigotry or unlawful religious discrimination to being patriotic, and national security policy (Simon Haddad, Hilal Khashan). At the end, it the burden of this crime were put on the few million Muslims in the United States, who were to pay for this security with their civil rights and liberties taken away from them. Every time an act of terror or shooting occurs, Muslims closely watch the news with extreme fear praying that the suspect is not Muslim. “This is not because these terrorists are likely to be Muslim but rather because in the instances where they happen to be, we see amplified mass media coverage and extreme unjustified hatred towards Muslims”.(Omar Analtor )
Question: what were the effects of 9/11 on the Muslim communities living in the United States in the United States?
Hypothesis: the atrocity committed by 19 individual on of 9/11 has had a negative impact on Muslim living in the United States.
The first section of this paper will briefly discuss some of the historical reason that might have been the cause of September. 11 None of the following

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