Majority of the time when Islam is seen on the news, it is never for a good reason. Headlines read Islamic extremist this or Islamic radical that. A number of Americans view the religion as dangerous and different. Muslims who have no terrorist connections are being surveillanced and prosecuted just because of their religion. Islam is a peaceful religion; it’s just misunderstood due to lack of knowledge within the American population. Muslims are often linked to the terrorists that caused 9/11. Osama Bin Laden the leader of Al-Qaeda and his followers are Muslim. September 11, 2001 is what caused Islamophobia throughout the United States. Many Muslims received hostility and were discriminated because they were linked to terrorists by religion.
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When the justice systems look into terrorists they immediately look into Muslims. Muslims aren’t the only victims of stereotypes. The African American population receive discrimination from the the criminal justice system like with the situation going on in Ferguson. What African American goes through is exactly what Muslim goes through. They both have to fight stereotypes. After 9/11 a man named Farouk Ali-Haimoud was wrongly accused of being a terrorists. He had nothing to do with 9/11 but he was in jail for 15 months. There is no doubt that Ali-Haimoud’s experiences has everything to do with the fact that he’s Muslim. Instances like this represent discrimination in the justice system and cultural bias against Islam (Elawawadh …show more content…
Philip Jenkins, a history professor at Baylor University's Institute for Studies of Religion, states that shockingly “the Islamic scriptures in the Quran were actually far less bloody and less violent than those in the Bible”. He also says that violence in the Quran was mostly self defense (Hagerty 6-9). Yes, there are radical Islamic extremists in the world and yes, there are Muslims out there who are truly evil. The world population is just over 7 billion; 1.6 billion of them are Muslim. Out of 1.6 billion people there are bound to be a few bad apples. Do not let a small fraction of Muslims define Muslims as a whole. In every religion there are extremists who use religion to justify their actions. For example Buddhism is known for being the most peaceful religion, but there are violent extremists all over Asia in places like in Myanmar (Uzayr 1). Islam is generalized too much. When there is a problem in a country where the majority of the population is Muslim people label that as an Islamic problem. In Saudi Arabia women are given no rights so it is said to be an Islamic problem instead of an Saudi Arabian problem. In Russia there are no gay rights, but that is not a Christianity problem. That’s an Russian issue. It is incorrect to generalize a religion based on issues going on in a certain
When the justice systems look into terrorists they immediately look into Muslims. Muslims aren’t the only victims of stereotypes. The African American population receive discrimination from the the criminal justice system like with the situation going on in Ferguson. What African American goes through is exactly what Muslim goes through. They both have to fight stereotypes. After 9/11 a man named Farouk Ali-Haimoud was wrongly accused of being a terrorists. He had nothing to do with 9/11 but he was in jail for 15 months. There is no doubt that Ali-Haimoud’s experiences has everything to do with the fact that he’s Muslim. Instances like this represent discrimination in the justice system and cultural bias against Islam (Elawawadh …show more content…
Philip Jenkins, a history professor at Baylor University's Institute for Studies of Religion, states that shockingly “the Islamic scriptures in the Quran were actually far less bloody and less violent than those in the Bible”. He also says that violence in the Quran was mostly self defense (Hagerty 6-9). Yes, there are radical Islamic extremists in the world and yes, there are Muslims out there who are truly evil. The world population is just over 7 billion; 1.6 billion of them are Muslim. Out of 1.6 billion people there are bound to be a few bad apples. Do not let a small fraction of Muslims define Muslims as a whole. In every religion there are extremists who use religion to justify their actions. For example Buddhism is known for being the most peaceful religion, but there are violent extremists all over Asia in places like in Myanmar (Uzayr 1). Islam is generalized too much. When there is a problem in a country where the majority of the population is Muslim people label that as an Islamic problem. In Saudi Arabia women are given no rights so it is said to be an Islamic problem instead of an Saudi Arabian problem. In Russia there are no gay rights, but that is not a Christianity problem. That’s an Russian issue. It is incorrect to generalize a religion based on issues going on in a certain