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    Islamophobia In America

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    After September 11, 2001, Islamophobia began increasing in America. The people of America started to discriminate and marginalize people who were Muslim or even people who looked as if they practiced the Muslim faith. This discrimination started before September 11, 2001, but after the terrorist attack, it got increasingly worse. The people of America need to recognize their own responsibility and feel guilty for the suffering of these people of the Muslim faith. ​A majority of the time, it is Christians

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    who are only affiliated with said few people through religion, those who are mere human beings going through the same things anyone else do. This is called Islamophobia, which is defined by Erik Bleich as “indiscriminate negative attitudes or emotions

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    Representative André Carson shows strong passion when it comes to Islamophobia in the United States; publicly voicing his opinion by saying “Donald Trump's impulsivity concerns me. He’s fanning the flames of xenophobia and Islamophobia, and the American people are speaking out against it.” Islamophobia, as defined by Merriam Webster as an irrational fear of, aversion to, or discrimination against Islam or people who practice Islam. Islamophobia is all too common in the United States. Ever since the Trump

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    forms of such prejudice within the United States include Islamophobia— the prejudice against Muslims. Fueled by fear from the September 11 attacks, many Americans have developed an negative attitude toward practitioners of Islam due to mass media, causing an unjustified discrimination in actions including but not limited to hate crimes, controversy and bullying within the educational sector, and unfair legislation against Muslims. Islamophobia needs to be combated through the educating of Americans

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    a Muslim, I have experienced the effects of Islamophobia first hand. Islamophobia is a real thing that has had a global influence over recent years. Approximately 24% of the global population follows the Muslim faith. As a result, a significant percent of the global population has a Muslim background. Unfortunately, our perception by society hasn’t been the best, especially in the recent decades. The fear of Muslims (Commonly referred to as Islamophobia) is more prevalent in today’s society than ever

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    After 9/11 has induced negative attitudes towards Muslim peoples who tend to be strongly associated with any act of terrorism. The media has played a colossal role in developing such negative association wherein it constantly portrays Muslim people in combination with violent terrorist acts. It does so in a way that they both go hand-and-hand. In other words, it has made it as though the Islamic religion is synonymous with terrorism. The media has perpetuated Muslim stereotypes over the years that

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    The word ‘Islamophobia’ refers to the fear, dislike, suspicion, or hatred of Muslims. As irrational prejudices go, this one is a fairly new phenomenon. It became most prominent after the September 2001 terrorist attacks in the United States, but certainly existed prior to that (Sheridan 2006). Islamophobia is nourished by a number of misconceptions which are related to but distinct from these attacks. The so-called ‘War on Terror’ is sometimes perceived as a war on Islam. Muslims are depicted in

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    In Oxford English Dictionary, Islamophobia is defined as “intense dislike or fear of Islam, especially as a political force, hostility or prejudice towards Muslims.” This term was first used in 20th century and had its’ own definition at 1970s. Particularly, after the 11 September events -which a radical Islamic group claimed its responsibility- in U.S.A. most of the non-Muslims in the world knew the Muslims with violence. The Berkeley Institute on Racism Studies says that Islam is often seen as

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    Many argue that there is an undeniable rise of Islamophobia in the West and that this irrational fear of Muslim people could be the precursor to mass persecution of Muslims similar to what the Jews had to endure in the twentieth centuries in Europe. Inspired by Adolf Hitler's distorted realities that Jews were the source of Europe economic downturn, the Nazis propagated anti-Semitism, ordered anti-Jewish boycotts, staged book burnings, and enacted anti-Jewish legislation. Today many Muslims living

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    Islamophobia is the fear of Muslims, or the religion of Islam, according to BBC (2017). Some people blame all Muslims for terrorist attacks, that are caused by terrorist groups such as Al Qaeda, Isis, and Boko Haram. These organizations allegedly follow Islam, I say they allegedly follow Islam, because if they had indeed studied Islam, they would understand that Islam is a religion of peace, not terrorism. The word “Islam” means submission to God’s will and obedience to God’s law. It derives from

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