As a Criminal Justice Major and to take it even further as an African American male I have found it hard to sometimes distinguish what is legally right and what morally wrong when it comes to justice in certain aspects. This article is an eye opener on another group of people who have been legally and morally wronged by America with its idea of “War on Terrorism”. I’d like to start off with a quote from the last sentence in the article that stated “Then everybody was seen like suspects”. To me this is probably the most powerful message in the article due to its representation of what was really going on in America during and after the events of 9/11.
Many events transpired during this time that would make America look less like the country for equal opportunity and freedom and more like a country designed to discriminate anyone who wasn’t part of the majority. Scaling from the FBI visits that were used to seek terrorism related information to special registration used to have noncitizens to register leading to thousands of deportations and arrests. The most popular known being the Patriot Act of 2001 which gave the government even …show more content…
In the more recent report: Post 9/11: The Impact of Stigma for Muslim Americans by Saera Khan, she examines more recent data on the impact of 9/11 on Muslim American experiences. After multiple studies done, measured based on Muslim perceptions of stigma and Personal impacts of 9/11, Saera concluded that some individuals changed their routines due to fear of violence and some had a “fear of how others’ prejudiced views might taint their perception of individual Muslims” (Khan 2014). The critical impact of the prejudice, discrimination, and blatant racism has affected the general public’s mind as well attitudes towards Muslim Americans in such a negative way that even to this day there is a distrust of the Muslim
Many events transpired during this time that would make America look less like the country for equal opportunity and freedom and more like a country designed to discriminate anyone who wasn’t part of the majority. Scaling from the FBI visits that were used to seek terrorism related information to special registration used to have noncitizens to register leading to thousands of deportations and arrests. The most popular known being the Patriot Act of 2001 which gave the government even …show more content…
In the more recent report: Post 9/11: The Impact of Stigma for Muslim Americans by Saera Khan, she examines more recent data on the impact of 9/11 on Muslim American experiences. After multiple studies done, measured based on Muslim perceptions of stigma and Personal impacts of 9/11, Saera concluded that some individuals changed their routines due to fear of violence and some had a “fear of how others’ prejudiced views might taint their perception of individual Muslims” (Khan 2014). The critical impact of the prejudice, discrimination, and blatant racism has affected the general public’s mind as well attitudes towards Muslim Americans in such a negative way that even to this day there is a distrust of the Muslim