negatively affects Muslims all around the world. Muslims should have the right to live freely without being a victim of racism or prejudice. People think that Islamophobia is affecting Muslims in non-Muslim countries only but Islamophobia is actually affecting Islamic countries as well. Islamic countries like Egypt are suffering from Islamophobia. Since that most foreign governments are Islamophobic so instead of helping us to become a developed country as it is the duty of every developed country to
Anti-terrorism legislation in the United States, and to an even greater extent in other countries like France and Switzerland, has become a vehicle for Islamophobia and creates even greater hardship for Muslims everywhere. On a social level, the Runnymede Trust’s forewarning of Islamophobia becoming more respectable is actualizing. Intellectual Islamophobia in the ilk of Bill Maher is becoming increasingly popular in American culture, and it runs largely on the views the report points out. An
In hearing a lot of complaints about president elect Trump's Islamophobia, it's been surprising to learn how uneducated the average person is about the history of Islamophobia in America. The current blinkered attitude towards Muslims worldwide is not a product of happenstance. To quote a former American President: In politics, nothing happens fdr-december-24-1943by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way. Franklin D. Roosevelt While that contextually sounds a bit surreptitious
What is your first thought when you are walking down the street and you see an Islamic person wearing a classic head piece known as a hijab (Brown)? You may not think anything of it, or you might feel like this person is un-American and needs to leave the country. In the next few years, with a new political regime coming to office, a growing number of people will see this person and automatically assume that they are a threat to national security. These people may see themselves as vigilantes for
Islamophobia within the United States is an ongoing social issue that negatively impacts the Muslim-American community. Muslim-Americans are forty-eight percent more likely to have experienced discrimination and harassment in the past year compared to Protestants, Catholics, and Jews (“Islamophobia,” n.d.), thus confirming the fact that many non-Muslims within America view followers of Islam as worthy of being labeled as scapegoats and foreigners more than the followers of any other religion deemed
you will most likely hear the word “Islamic radical Extremists.” The Media has done so well to link the act of terrorisms to the religion of Islam. In return, a new word emerged known as “Islamophobia.” According to Oxford dictionary, Islamophobia is “dislike of or prejudice against Islam or Muslims. Islamophobia increases as the media portrays Muslims as terrorists.* Most, if not all, media platforms are controlled by economic and political elites. In other words, the elites have the power to label
Ambassador Chris Stevens. It was revealed that it was due to a YouTube video, even though it had no relations to it, and later on it was confirm a Terrorist attack during that election year. The media’s agenda help create the fear of Muslims call Islamophobia.
supposed to mean peace, but some people forget or are just simply never aware/educated about the religion and so they are often mislead by different outlets which causes them to have a negative view towards the religion (Kurtishi, Ajdini, 2016). Islamophobia is dislike of or prejudice against Islam or Muslims, especially as a political force (googledictionary.com). A phobia is the fear of something or someone, so when we say Islam-phobia, were essentially saying that the Fear of Islam, Muslims, and
the FBI. Although, the connection between Muslims and the FBI is forced. The FBI has positioned Muslims who decline to act as informants on the no-fly list, and the California FBI utilized community outreach plans to collect data about Muslims. Islamophobia is institutionalized in the FBI. In 2011, Wired Magazine’s Danger Room blog started publication of leaked documents from the FBI’s counterterrorism training program. The documents asserted that all Muslims are possible terrorists, called the Prophet
to cast a critical eye over the role of the media? This is simply because that is how the media typically portrays Islam. They have an influence over our perceptions of many controversial issues such as Islamophobia. But has there been strategies and efforts used to prevent and eliminate Islamophobia? The media has generally represented the Reclaim Australia group as fringe. The question you could be asking is why, even after this