Islamophobia in the United States
Monday morning one opens the newspaper and the headline reads: “Terrorist Attack in Certain City” the attackers name and his religion is stated clearly for all to know that in fact the terrorist was a Muslim. A few days later another article on the side reads “Three young adults murdered in North Carolina” the attackers religion is not stated neither is the religion of the three college students, who were in fact Muslim Americans. Now one might be thinking why is it that the terrorist’s religion was named yet the victims who died was not? It may not occur to the audience reading these headlines that the reason could be to cause fear towards Muslims; which is called Islamophobia. Islamophobia in America is a rampant ongoing discrimination in the United States, many factors play into islamophobia such as media, laws, and racial profiling; yet Islamophobia can be lessened if the American population works together to come up with a solution
The word Islamophobia has made its way into the recent decade, it literally …show more content…
Non-¬Muslims and Muslims must unite with one another, disregard the issues the media has portrayed and encourage house of worships to build. The more knowledge Muslims get of the teachings of the Quran, the more they will be able to fight against the teachings of groups such as ISIS. Interfaith groups must be made so groups are able to increase knowledge with one another. Talk back to the bigotry of talk show hosts and political commenters who make unnecessary comments (Nelson, and Emily). Schools need to start focusing on decreasing racial slurs like Jihadist and Rag Head. The Arabic root for the word Islam comes for Salam which means peace. One has to encourage more teachings of the Quran that will help Muslims and Non¬-Muslims learn the truth that is covered behind the false propaganda by the
Monday morning one opens the newspaper and the headline reads: “Terrorist Attack in Certain City” the attackers name and his religion is stated clearly for all to know that in fact the terrorist was a Muslim. A few days later another article on the side reads “Three young adults murdered in North Carolina” the attackers religion is not stated neither is the religion of the three college students, who were in fact Muslim Americans. Now one might be thinking why is it that the terrorist’s religion was named yet the victims who died was not? It may not occur to the audience reading these headlines that the reason could be to cause fear towards Muslims; which is called Islamophobia. Islamophobia in America is a rampant ongoing discrimination in the United States, many factors play into islamophobia such as media, laws, and racial profiling; yet Islamophobia can be lessened if the American population works together to come up with a solution
The word Islamophobia has made its way into the recent decade, it literally …show more content…
Non-¬Muslims and Muslims must unite with one another, disregard the issues the media has portrayed and encourage house of worships to build. The more knowledge Muslims get of the teachings of the Quran, the more they will be able to fight against the teachings of groups such as ISIS. Interfaith groups must be made so groups are able to increase knowledge with one another. Talk back to the bigotry of talk show hosts and political commenters who make unnecessary comments (Nelson, and Emily). Schools need to start focusing on decreasing racial slurs like Jihadist and Rag Head. The Arabic root for the word Islam comes for Salam which means peace. One has to encourage more teachings of the Quran that will help Muslims and Non¬-Muslims learn the truth that is covered behind the false propaganda by the