Islamic Influence On America

For sixteen years, the issue of Islamic terrorism has continued to be an important social and political issue in the United States. Ever since the drastic event that occurred in September of 2001, a massive fraction of Americans have expressed their bias against Muslim communities. Although it has openly been made aware that militant Islam exists and is intended to be spread to America, its citizens tend to resort to ignorance of Muslim people and their intentions. With America’s focus on freedom (specifically in this case religious freedom), Islamic practices are strictly opposed to that, therefore creating a clash between two cultural values. The agenda put into effect by Islamic extremists to transform the governance of America is more difficult to accomplish than how they make it out to be. Converting hundreds of millions of people existing in a religiously diversified population and pushing them to conform to a single way of life has so far been proven to be implausible and ineffective through insignificant progress within the past twenty years and Muslim Americans’ lack of initiative. …show more content…
America is and remains to be among the most powerful countries in the world. To undermine them for their ‘lack of moral/cultural values’ can insinuate disputes and become dangerously competitive. As a result, the dominance American leaders have over Muslim leaders prevail. Their power is seen as always present and moving towards the objective "to bring about [Muslims’] defeat" (Siddiqi, 1989). The inability to overthrow a preeminent government has been a prolonging setback to the Muslim leaders’ implementation of their political