Muslim Discrimination In The United States

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After 9/11 some Americans fear and discriminate Muslim .According to Gallup it says, “48% of Muslim Americans who say they experienced racial or religious discrimination is on par with Hispanic Americans 48% and African American 45% , as calculated from a combination of these same group, Arab American 52% are most like to say they experience this type of discrimination.” Some are so afraid of the people who are different from them and they discriminate against them. Many people are misinformed about Muslim cultures, wearing of the veil by women, and terrorist.
Some people are afraid of the Muslim culture. The Muslim people are just the same as any other person. For example, Many Muslim organizations have food drive to help those in need. According to Foundation for intelligent giving it says, “American Muslim are an integral part of our society. You see Muslim in media, in Comedy, in Acting , in Medicine, Law engineering , Business. They´re
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Some women wear the hijab because they believe that they would be closer to religion and god. According to Arabs in America it says, “Instructed women to wear it as a means of fulfilling his commandment for modesty”. Muslim woman do use hijab because in reality that is their identification of how actually identify themselves from where there really coming from. According World Religion News it says, ¨The Quran requires women to guard their modesty, covering their private parts and bosoms, and not to display their beauty except what is ordinarily apparent and not to strike their feet so as to reveal their hidden beauty except to some specified close relatives (24:31). Here the expression “what is ordinarily apparent” is usually taken to mean the face, hands, and feet. It can also mean the head or hair.¨ People often mock in a cruel way that they do not realize that they hurt them and that is why they use in a way to respects their religion as well as their

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