Since 9/11 Americans have viewed the Muslim faith as a terrorist faith. Statistics have shown us the percentages and numbers of the people who believe in this. Here are some stats to really put this into perspective. According to the FBI only about 6% of terrorist attacks in the United States are cause or done by Islamic Extremists. More attacks are done by Latino’s than any other assailants in America. Based on the Triangle Center on Terrorism and Homeland Security, of the three hundred political violence attack and shootings about 33 Americans have died due to Muslim-Americans. With statistics like these we can clearly see that the Muslim-American population is not to blame for any terrorist attack in the United States. Instead we should
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Four airliners were hijacked and used to carry out a suicide mission. Two planes went to The World Trade Center in New York City, one more went to the Pentagon in Virginia, and the last plane crashed into a field in Pennsylvania (Belzer 2007). This group of individuals was known as al-Qaeda. Almost three thousand people lost their lives that day and it was known as the first and biggest terrorist attack in American history, on our soil. It devastated the nation and started the war between America and the Middle East. This is the main and most contributing factor as to why Americans view Muslims as …show more content…
Whenever I watch the news it’s always about all of the bad things happening in the world. More specifically it is about Syria and the problems in the Middle East. Showing the world what is happening to its people is one thing but when you only display a certain group in negative ways, you will teach the public to view them as such. Whenever a Muslim person is shown on television it is about terrorism or it has something to do with being a victim of some bombing or interrogation in the Middle East. I have never seen a news program show the wonderful thing the Muslim population has done. I have never heard of the good deeds a Muslim-American may have done because the media does not show it. They would much rather focus on the horrible things some few have done. Gruesome beheadings are shown on the news for days while Muslim leaders holding press conferences against terrorism hardly get two minutes of show time (Obeidallah 2014). It is the sad, sad truth but it is how the American media covers Muslim and Islamic issues. Since ISIS has come around the media is only making this problem much, much worse. Showings of ISIS and the problems they create are just about the only real coverage concerning Muslim and Islamic citizens in America that this public will get. Only contributing to the way the media brainwashes the masses to believe that all Muslims and
Four airliners were hijacked and used to carry out a suicide mission. Two planes went to The World Trade Center in New York City, one more went to the Pentagon in Virginia, and the last plane crashed into a field in Pennsylvania (Belzer 2007). This group of individuals was known as al-Qaeda. Almost three thousand people lost their lives that day and it was known as the first and biggest terrorist attack in American history, on our soil. It devastated the nation and started the war between America and the Middle East. This is the main and most contributing factor as to why Americans view Muslims as …show more content…
Whenever I watch the news it’s always about all of the bad things happening in the world. More specifically it is about Syria and the problems in the Middle East. Showing the world what is happening to its people is one thing but when you only display a certain group in negative ways, you will teach the public to view them as such. Whenever a Muslim person is shown on television it is about terrorism or it has something to do with being a victim of some bombing or interrogation in the Middle East. I have never seen a news program show the wonderful thing the Muslim population has done. I have never heard of the good deeds a Muslim-American may have done because the media does not show it. They would much rather focus on the horrible things some few have done. Gruesome beheadings are shown on the news for days while Muslim leaders holding press conferences against terrorism hardly get two minutes of show time (Obeidallah 2014). It is the sad, sad truth but it is how the American media covers Muslim and Islamic issues. Since ISIS has come around the media is only making this problem much, much worse. Showings of ISIS and the problems they create are just about the only real coverage concerning Muslim and Islamic citizens in America that this public will get. Only contributing to the way the media brainwashes the masses to believe that all Muslims and