The ongoing conflict between Islam and Christianity can be broken up into content, relational, and identity factors. These factors which include the conflict in the Middle East, recent terrorist acts, and the ban of religious clothing, the Burkini, all help in the understanding of the growing tension between both religions.
The ongoing conflict in the Middle East contributes to the content conflict between Islam and Christianity. The destruction produced by years of conflict has left many displaced and forced to immigrate to other countries. This immigration has elicited different responses from everyone because instead of viewing them of people in need of help they become only a label of their religion, regardless whether each individual is Muslim or not, that more so in recent time has come under a lot of fire based on misinformation and prejudices. …show more content…
In Samuel P. Huntington essay “The Clash of Civilizations?”, he states that,“as people define their identity in ethnic and religious terms, they are likely to see an "us" versus "them" relation existing between themselves and people of different ethnicity and religion.” (Huntington, 9) Therefore to many this relationship becomes antagonistic where one side is usually victimized. Recent terrorist acts done in the name of either religion further contributes to this relational conflict. The response is usually unabashed to hate and harassment of all those uninvolved solely, but solely based on the fact that they identify with the religion that the terrorist used in doing their act. This further promotes stereotypes and hate within the
The ongoing conflict in the Middle East contributes to the content conflict between Islam and Christianity. The destruction produced by years of conflict has left many displaced and forced to immigrate to other countries. This immigration has elicited different responses from everyone because instead of viewing them of people in need of help they become only a label of their religion, regardless whether each individual is Muslim or not, that more so in recent time has come under a lot of fire based on misinformation and prejudices. …show more content…
In Samuel P. Huntington essay “The Clash of Civilizations?”, he states that,“as people define their identity in ethnic and religious terms, they are likely to see an "us" versus "them" relation existing between themselves and people of different ethnicity and religion.” (Huntington, 9) Therefore to many this relationship becomes antagonistic where one side is usually victimized. Recent terrorist acts done in the name of either religion further contributes to this relational conflict. The response is usually unabashed to hate and harassment of all those uninvolved solely, but solely based on the fact that they identify with the religion that the terrorist used in doing their act. This further promotes stereotypes and hate within the