...Muslims in America before and after 9/11 Imagine yourself in a place where Muslims were called terrorists after the 9/11 attack. Before 9/11 Muslims were free to live in America. Muslims didn’t meet people outside of their faith groups. After 9/11 attack Muslims were treated really badly and they were forced to meet people outside of their faith groups. The recent study from Pew Researcher center, 10 years later, 55 percent of Muslim Americans say that it has become more difficult to be a Muslim in the United States. However, 66 percent of Muslim Americans say that life for Muslims is better here than in most Muslim nations (Jones). Before 9/11 attack Muslims in America were appreciated, but after the 9/11 attack which affected everybody, Muslims were looked down upon by the society. “Sept. 11 shook all of us. It was a horrible action that we will remember for as long as we live. We remember the date, we remember...
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...Effects on American Muslims After 9/11 A recent survey about American Muslims living in households in the United States range from 0.2 to 0.6 percent. That means the United States holds around 418,000 to 1,254,000 American Muslims that live here. However, it never mattered to the Americans how many Muslims were in the United States till 9/11 happened to us. On September 11, 2001, two American planes were hijacked by Muslims and crashed into the Twin towers in New York City. It shocked and devastated the whole county. Americans were shocked and confused on what to think or do about the American Muslims that were living in American going to school with their children. However, how did the American Muslims feel about what happed? How did American react? What happened to the American Muslims and their religion after all of this was through? After the Twin Towers feel the American Muslims felt the post effect from the citizens of America. After the attack American Muslims felt some discrimination about the attack and felt the effect. When the Twin Towers fell it was caused by the Muslims flying the plan into the towers. American’s attitudes towards the American Muslims changed from letting then live in the country to all American Muslims are terrorist. Hate mail was received to many families because of their religion. The American Muslim Political Coordination Council gave a statement, “American Muslims utterly condemn what are apparently vicious and cowardly acts of terrorism...
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...that there are roughly 7 million Muslims in the United States1. That equates to about 2.3% of the population. Even though that doesn’t seem like very much, it has been growing and continues to grow despite the events of September 11, 2001. On that day, very much changed for the Islamic people living in the United States. Although they American Muslims had absolutely nothing to do with the events that occurred on that day, their way of life was destined to change. The change that occurred was not in their religion or how they practiced it, it was in the no-Islamic population. Public eye was on the Muslims because the attacks from September 11th were said to be conducted by Muslim extremists. The media was, for the most part, the only place American’s would get any information about Muslims and they were not portraying them very nicely. In order to protect themselves from bad public opinion, American Muslim were faced with a challenge. They needed to improve their image in order to protect themselves from the growing number of people that were against Islam and they need to do it while staying true to themselves and their religion. In 2005, the Fiqh Council of North America issued a fatwa saying that the use of violence against innocent lives was forbidden under Islamic Law. This fatwa also encouraged Muslims to assist law enforcement in the challenge of preventing these sorts of attacks. This sort of thing shows how the Muslims in American are concerned about how...
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...perception as a whole. One specific event in American history in which historians’ perception impacted the Arab and Muslim group in society was the terrorist attack that occurred on September 11, 2001. Abu-Lughod, a professor of Anthropology and Women’s and Gender Studies at Columbia University...
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...forever be talked about. This was a day where everything seemed to stop, everyone let their differences aside and prayed for those in need. It’s also a day that made us scared to step on the same ground or be near someone of that seemed to appear Afghan or Muslim. For my article I decided to combine two articles that talked about the aftermath of September 11th and the job market for Afghan and Muslim decent. My first article I am reviewing “estimates the impact that the 9/11 terrorists attacks had on the U.S. labor market outcomes of individuals...
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...specifically Islam, has received a great deal of coverage due to the actions taken by extremist Muslims. Because of the actions of terrorist groups such as the Taliban and Isis, Muslims around the world, especially in the United States, are viewed in a negative light. Due to this, the rising backlash towards Muslims has raised the question if during the past fifteen years, the resulting prejudice has affected the young/old/new Muslim immigrants in terms of work, daily life, and even their own sense of belonging or identity within the United States. Recently, minorities in the United States have had...
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...Other acts of hate toward Arabs and Muslims other than murder, such as physical assaults, verbal harassment, intimidation, attacks on mosques, vandalism, arson, and other property damage, made living in America increasingly difficult. The victims of the backlash of the 9/11 attacks did not have any evidence indicating that they were somehow involved. In 2001, reported data by the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR Program) showed over a 1,600 percent increase from the previous year in Anti-Islamic religion incidents. The number of hate crimes against Muslims decreased but remained higher than before the 9/11 attacks. A suspension of Arab and Muslim American civil rights was enacted when the government decided that ethnic profiling was necessary...
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...prejudice treatment from his surroundings because he was Muslim. Sadly, this statement has held truth too many feelings held by Muslims in America. Since 9-11, the treatment given to Muslim in American have been worse than it has ever been in years. Being an American Muslim has been a testing task. Post 9-11 has altered the mindset of the American people because of incorrect information. Although there are laws set against certain prejudice and bias acts, they still exist. One question we all as America need to ask ourselves is have we played a part in the way Muslims feel in today’s society. If the answer is yes, will you admit it and will you change? Most Americans will deny it, but as a society, we may fear American Muslims or have acted bias, racist, or even prejudice against them. Not all Muslims are terrorist! The Muslim population was once very small but has increased greatly in the 20th century. In 2005, nearly 96,000 people of Islamic countries have become permanent American citizens. Then in 2009, there was another 115,000 Muslims who became legal residents. Muslims in American are not only Arab descent. They are very racially diverse religious groups and come from various backgrounds. “Native-born American Muslims are mainly African Americans who make up about a quarter of the total Muslim population. Many of these have converted to Islam during the last seventy years” (Borelli, & Christiansen 2011). Muslims are populating America in large numbers and are a part...
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...How did 9/11 change America? On the 11th of September, 2001, the United States of America suffered the worst terrorist attack in US history. Four planes were hijacked by 19 al-Qaeda terrorists, where two of the planes, American airlines flight 11 and United airlines flight 175, were intentionally crashed into the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York. The third plane, American airlines flight 77, was crashed into the headquarters of the United States Department of Defense, commonly referred to as the Pentagon, in Arlington County in Virginia, and the fourth and final plane, United airlines flight 93, was headed for Washington D.C however; it crashed into a field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania instead, because the passengers tried to overpower the hijackers. 2996 people, including the hijackers, died as a direct result of the attack, thousand more were injured and the entire nation was in...
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...Introduction The purpose of this thesis is to show Islamic stereotypes in American movies made before and after the attacks on 9/11 and this was inspired by the movie, American Sniper, and the backlash and the response that the movie got and it begs the question why did people react the way they did and way they did it. After the movie came out, the people who saw it had a strong opinion about it, either that it was a patriotic movie or that it was offensive to Muslims. Many Americans have grown up in a post 9/11 world and don’t remember what the world was like before that fateful day and as a consequence have grown up with the “War on Terror” and trying to find the people responsible for the attacks on that infamous day in September. After...
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...In the Salem Witch Trials began during the spring of 1692, after a group of young girls in Salem Village. They claimed to be possessed by the devil and accused a lot of women of being witches. More than 200 people were accused of being a witch. They were doing the devil's work and 20 of them were executed. Similarity and difference of the Salem Witch Trials and the Muslims. Muslims are being accused of something they did not do. In the Crucible They are being accused of doing the terrorist attacks. In the Salem Witch Trials, women were being accused of being witches. They compare by both of them are being accused.They both are being accused of something they did not do. People are accusing people that had nothing to with that crime. They just blame...
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...9-11 was a tragic event both for the Muslims and the American victims and their families. As a matter of fact the tragedy of 9-11 had nothing to do with any Muslim matters. Some Muslims were seen exulted by the collapse of the twin towers but that proved their lack of understanding of the real Muslim issues and global issues. May be this exultation was a reflection of anger and outrage against America in the world. Still now for most Muslims all over the world the 9-11 incidents remain an uncomfortable event and makes Muslims uneasy. If the nineteen or so Arab men were involved in bringing the planes down to the World Trade Centers buildings then it was the result of their wrong understanding of the total Muslim issues. Besides it was not within their capabilities to bring the planes up...
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...answer is Osama bin Laden. Bin Laden was the wicked mastermind behind the 9/11 terror attacks in New York city. He was the leader of the Isalmist group known as Al- Qaeda, which was the organization that committed the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon. Bin Laden was named the prime suspect of the 9/11 attacks, as it was stated by the government an hour after the attacks had taken place....
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...Muslims and Islams aren’t to blame Terrorism always gets confused with foreigners. Terrorism that is caused by Americans is usually hard to recall. But, when was the last time a foreigner attacked US territory? The last attack on US soil by a foreign terrorist was December 11, 2017. Moreover, just at the starting of 2018, there was six school shootings in January alone for our own American people. Muslims should not be the blame for terrorist attacks on our homeland because as a country we’ve been attacked more by our own people. Most Muslims or Islam’s coming into our country are looked at as terrorists based on their religion. Many Americans blame current attacks on them because of the 9/11 attack. Espionage and Intelligence wrote, “Islamist extremists had given plenty of warning that they meant to kill Americans indiscriminately and in large numbers.” In December of 2016, more than 41% of Americans believed that Islam’s are likely to be violent and that has to do with their faith. In addition more than 50% of Americans think most of the Muslims in America are “anti-american”. Most middle eastern people face more discrimination than people of color. 39% of “our people” think the...
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...Islamophobia is at the highest in the United States, however it isn’t taken seriously. Before the events of 9/11, stereotypes, hatred, and prejudices of Muslims or those perceived to be linked with Islam were taken lightly by the United States public. After 9/11, and across the globe, Muslims have faced individual and systemic acts of discrimination and violence after 9/11 as a form of retaliation for the collective guilt ascribed to the followers of Islam and anyone who resembled them‖ (Zine, 2004, p.111). The acts of 9/11 have brought on a new attacks on Islam, all which are negative. Every where around the world Muslim are faced with growing prejudice and are at times singled out. Hate crimes committed against muslim or Mosques are hardly every heard about on the news. While Islamophobia is on the rise it is time to break those barriers and bring communities together in a peaceful manner. This would have to a lot with media portrays Islam. If we take a look at the average news media outlet's headliners in the past 5-10 years and it's clear that a certain word or group has managed to stand out: Muslim or ISLAMOPHOBIA PAGE 7 ISLAMOPHOBIA ANDRIANAKOS Islam. Now with the spotlight on 1.57 billion people following its five pillars of Islam. Their every move is taking apart and analyzed and in most cases show cased in a negative light. The religion of Islam has existed since the 7th century C.E but the...
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