George W. Bush’s speech after the attack of 9/11 stated that,” Islam is peace” and “The face of terror is not the true faith of islam,” two presidents later, Trump calls a ban on Muslims entering into the United States after the San Bernardino terror attack. His actions has rallied many types of reactions from the Americans. Accordingly, there’s been dozens of protests at major airports such as New York’s JFK, Los Angeles international, and more. Crowds are gathering and challenging this executive order through islamic prayers, banners, chanting discontent, and etc. As the leader of the free world President Trump’s unhinged actions could have potentially sparked an intense wave of islamophobia similar to what happened after 9/11. In any case, what kind of affect can this have on the Muslim citizens?
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Global events such as the War on Terror, and what it is currently happening now the War on ISIS, reflect a dissention between the United States and the Muslim communities. In the United States the connection of Islam and terrorism uniforms into a one dimensional view that results in untrue or uninformed beliefs. Dr. Randa Elbih, a professor at Grand Valley State University, states a common myth,”Islam teaches terrorism and all muslims are terrorists” (Elbih). In making this comment, Elbih argues that like Christianity, Islam has many different sects. Each one of these sects greatly impact on what each religion practises. In Islam there are twenty-three sects. The most popular Sunni sects, such as the Hanafi, Hanbali, shaft’i, Maliki. Also the shi’a sects, including Jaffari, Ismailiyah, and Alaywitte. At the same time if we can not hold protestants to be accountable for pedophilic priests from the catholic church then we can not hold Muslims to be accountable for the terrorist activity. Furthermore, the Pew Research center
Global events such as the War on Terror, and what it is currently happening now the War on ISIS, reflect a dissention between the United States and the Muslim communities. In the United States the connection of Islam and terrorism uniforms into a one dimensional view that results in untrue or uninformed beliefs. Dr. Randa Elbih, a professor at Grand Valley State University, states a common myth,”Islam teaches terrorism and all muslims are terrorists” (Elbih). In making this comment, Elbih argues that like Christianity, Islam has many different sects. Each one of these sects greatly impact on what each religion practises. In Islam there are twenty-three sects. The most popular Sunni sects, such as the Hanafi, Hanbali, shaft’i, Maliki. Also the shi’a sects, including Jaffari, Ismailiyah, and Alaywitte. At the same time if we can not hold protestants to be accountable for pedophilic priests from the catholic church then we can not hold Muslims to be accountable for the terrorist activity. Furthermore, the Pew Research center