Before September 11th of 2001, Muslims were rarely spoken ill of. Since then, a large portion of the United States has developed hatred toward countries that have a majority of Muslim inhabitants, and people that practices the religion. Only 27 percent of Americans today have a favorable view of Muslim Americans, and only 60 percent of Americans do not even know a Muslim. Americans negative views on Muslims cannot be justified, but does make sense considering that if you constantly see news stories that only present Muslims in a negative way, and you do not have any personal connection with someone to give you an alternate view, you could fall into the media’s trap. Airport security in the United States has become extremely strict with particular
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The majority of the reason that all of this discrimination occurs continuously goes back to our media coverage. On the news we constantly see and hear about Muslim bombings, the kidnapping of schoolgirls, and the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, which are all extremists or radical movements. United States media finds a way to make the negative aspects of small groups within the large number of Muslims in the world, represent every Muslim. When do we hear about the positive things that Muslims do? Since the media has already begun this negative viewpoint of everyone who is Islamic, it carries on when it comes to female rights and the treatment of women in the religion.
Since the formation of Islam, women have been treated very fairly and equally in comparison to men, if not better than the other religions of the time, particularly Judaism and …show more content…
For example, the verse “But those wives from whom you fear arrogance – first advise them; then if they persist, forsake them in bed; and finally, strike them. But if they obey you once more, seek no means against them.” (An-Nisa 4:34), is commonly taken as the promotion of domestic violence. Since this was so long ago, we cannot say that Muhammad was saying to beat your wife. In fact, Judaism and Christianity have had plenty of contradictory verses in the torah and bible like this one, but that does not mean that they promote violence. The question of violence towards women in Islam is actually very clearly no allowed. Islam does not allow any sort of abuse to women. It has been reported that the prophet never hiti a child or woman. Interestincly, rape or assault on a woman is a very serious crime in this religion. In some countries of the Middle East, rape could be punishable with imprisonment of a lifetime, whereas in the West some men can put women through all sorts of harm, scarring her emotionally for life, and a few months later can walk out of jail to continue his life without thinking about what he has done to this
The majority of the reason that all of this discrimination occurs continuously goes back to our media coverage. On the news we constantly see and hear about Muslim bombings, the kidnapping of schoolgirls, and the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, which are all extremists or radical movements. United States media finds a way to make the negative aspects of small groups within the large number of Muslims in the world, represent every Muslim. When do we hear about the positive things that Muslims do? Since the media has already begun this negative viewpoint of everyone who is Islamic, it carries on when it comes to female rights and the treatment of women in the religion.
Since the formation of Islam, women have been treated very fairly and equally in comparison to men, if not better than the other religions of the time, particularly Judaism and …show more content…
For example, the verse “But those wives from whom you fear arrogance – first advise them; then if they persist, forsake them in bed; and finally, strike them. But if they obey you once more, seek no means against them.” (An-Nisa 4:34), is commonly taken as the promotion of domestic violence. Since this was so long ago, we cannot say that Muhammad was saying to beat your wife. In fact, Judaism and Christianity have had plenty of contradictory verses in the torah and bible like this one, but that does not mean that they promote violence. The question of violence towards women in Islam is actually very clearly no allowed. Islam does not allow any sort of abuse to women. It has been reported that the prophet never hiti a child or woman. Interestincly, rape or assault on a woman is a very serious crime in this religion. In some countries of the Middle East, rape could be punishable with imprisonment of a lifetime, whereas in the West some men can put women through all sorts of harm, scarring her emotionally for life, and a few months later can walk out of jail to continue his life without thinking about what he has done to this