If reasons such as having a political agenda, being a non-state actor and harming innocent people are used to separate terrorist attacks from non terrorist attacks, why segregate them according to religious affiliations? The bias and discrimination has been imprinted so much into our subconscious that when I asked my friends to simply describe what an average terrorist looked like, the results were quite fascinating. Everybody I spoke to, myself included, had at least one or more of the following descriptions; a man with some sort of heritage from the middle east or Somalia, with facial hair or turban of some kind and any sort of affiliation with the Muslim faith. None of them were trying to be racist or offensive in any sort of way, I’m a Muslim myself and yet I also have these common stereotypes in my brain
If reasons such as having a political agenda, being a non-state actor and harming innocent people are used to separate terrorist attacks from non terrorist attacks, why segregate them according to religious affiliations? The bias and discrimination has been imprinted so much into our subconscious that when I asked my friends to simply describe what an average terrorist looked like, the results were quite fascinating. Everybody I spoke to, myself included, had at least one or more of the following descriptions; a man with some sort of heritage from the middle east or Somalia, with facial hair or turban of some kind and any sort of affiliation with the Muslim faith. None of them were trying to be racist or offensive in any sort of way, I’m a Muslim myself and yet I also have these common stereotypes in my brain