Islam Post 9/11 Research Paper

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When someone hears the word Arabs or Islam post 9/11 in America, there wasn’t any sense of danger towards Muslims. Unlike today when the media brings up the religion of Islam, automatically non Muslims think the worst of us. There has become fear to see a man having a full bread, or a woman in hijab. Usually this fear comes from people who know absolutely nothing about this religion and who don’t understand it. I believe that the American press has a big influence on how the country views Muslims and things are only getting worse.
Let’s go back to Feburay,11th,2015 in Chapel Hill. Firstly, not too many people knew about this shooting. Unless you have Facebook, Instagram, or a twitter account. There is little to no media converge when it comes to Muslim death in America. Three young Muslims Razan, deah, and Yusor died in their apartment at day. The man charged was a 46-year-old man by the name of Craig Hicks. When the news sites covered this shooting, it was written that maybe this wasn’t hate crime towards Muslims, assuming that this was could have probably been a despite over parking space.
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The recent problem of fourteen-year-old Ahmad Mohamed. Ahmad Mohamed is a young boy that has a passion for making scientific things such as clocks. One morning he decides to show this clock to one of his teachers in Texas, unfortunately while showing the teacher the clock not only did she assume that this homemade clock was a bomb but felt the need to call the cops on him. As a Muslim I always ask myself why do people associate negative things such as bombing and extremist to Islam. The media plays a huge role and makes the final decision for us, instead of us thinking for

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