...In just the United State of America, anti-Muslim groups have grown 197% since 2015. In 2000, there were only five hate groups and in 2016 there were 101 hate groups towards Muslims (Anti-Muslim, n.d.). There was a huge spike after the massive terrorist attack in 2001 with hate crimes on Muslims. The previous year, there were only 28 reported incidents of hate crimes, but in 2001 the number jumped to 481. The number of reported incidents did eventually go down; however, the numbers never went under 100 again (Middlebrook, 2017). One of the largest anti-Muslim groups, the ACT for America has more than 750,000 members and 1,000 chapters throughout America. The leader of ACT for America, Brigitte Gabriel stated: If a Muslim who has—who is—a practicing...
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...9/11: Never Forgotten but Never the Same On Tuesday, September 11, 2001, at 8:46 in the morning, another mundane day began at the office. Millions sat in their desks around the world, living their ordinary lives, when news spread that American Airlines flight number 11 had been hijacked and crashed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center. Minutes later, another American Airlines plane flew into the South Tower, killing everyone onboard and hundreds inside the building. As the rest of the day progressed, countries around the world stood in solidarity with the United States, shocked that a tragic event such as this could happen to such an influential world superpower. The terroristic attacks on the United States on September 11th, 2001,...
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...The human condition of individuals who have been thoroughly impacted by a crisis make them fear how dangerous these situations are, and make them more aware of current events. In December, 2015, Kirk Semple interviewed young Muslim Americans on their impact of the 9/11 attacks. One of which is Hebh Jamal, who was one year old at the time of the 9/11 attacks, “... as her emergence from childhood to young womanhood has coincided with the violent spread of the Islamic State and a surge in Islamophobia, she has had to confront some harsh challenges of being a young Muslim in America.” (Semple) Fear plays a role in this by a section of your brain called the amygdala, it uses past memories to determine emotions (in this particular scenario: fear)....
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...After further investigation, it was provided that the only corroborating fact between these three trials was “that it involved a Pakistani male charged with murder where the victim was known to the defendant”. Although the Judge might have removed those with implied bias from the jury, he had failed to account for present bias in the court itself. Vicki Wash had spread misinformation and used clear Islamophobia towards Adnan Syed in place of proof without repercussion from the court. Not only did this continue throughout his trial, but was done by multiple prosecutors in Adnan's case. Both Casey Murphy and Kevin Urick claim his actions were brought forth due to his honor being “besmirched” (timestamp 12:32). This word has a direct derivative from the term “honor killing” a phrase which means the murder of a girl performed by a male member of the family. This act was commonly performed in Middle Eastern or Indian subcontinents. Once more a direct acquisition against his ethnicity alone, placing more emphasis on his heritage being a cause for his alleged murder of Hae Min...
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...historyNorthern Nigeria * Increase in conflict * Christianity against Islam * Us and them relationship * Religious conflict occurred due to Islamic law in the state * Christians felt at threat and marginalised * Stayed true to their identity, causing them to be under threat * Bombing of Christian churches, metal detectors installed | Maduro and Gramsci | Religion is a major source of conflict * Working class have a dual consciousness, mixture of ruling class ideology and their own experience of exploitation * If working class develop class consciousness, can fight to overthrow capitalism * Counter hegemony * Need organic intellectuals, can spread class consciousness through working class * Creates conflict, working class fighting against their oppression | Maduro, Liberation theology * Latin America * Clergy in Catholicism had utopian thought, challenged hegemony * Encouraged new...
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...the cornerstone of President Bush’s War on Terror and the beginning of America’s exercise in ‘nation building,’ has captivated and polarized national attention for the entirety of its thus far 2820 day existence. In 2003, much of the Western world unquestioningly accepted Saddam Hussein to be a tyrant in possession of nuclear weapons—and the Iraqi people one of the few in the world still forced to live in fear of a ubiquitous secret police.1 As days of American rule have grown to years, however, this narrative has largely unraveled and found itself reshaped as a web of power structures. As Iraq has emerged from a bona fide civil war, violence between sectarian tribes and the U.S.-Iraqi Government has continued. In the same timeframe in America, we have witnessed two Presidential elections and an increasing tendency of major media outlets to offer commentary and analysis—from a partisan viewpoint. The effect has been toxic: today the mainstream media has fractionated itself into insular cliques which often sacrifice big-picture reporting for attention grabbing headlines. Prior to the Wikileaks release this month, which placed the death toll among Iraqi civilians in the past six years at 66,000, the number killed was unclear and largely outside of American public knowledge. A detailed series of Internet searches for news articles mentioning “Iraqi civilian deaths,” “Iraq civilian blast,” and other permutations of the above published in the last four years show no shortage...
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... |Definition | |Ethnic group |People of the same race or nationality who share a distinctive culture. | |Anti-Semitism |The intense dislike for and prejudice against Jewish people. | |Islamophobia |Prejudice against Muslims. | |Xenophobia |A fear of foreigners or strangers. | |Persecution |The act of persecuting (especially on the basis of race or religion) | |Religious group |A set of individuals whose identity as such is distinctive in terms of common religious creed, beliefs,| | |doctrines, practices, or rituals. | Definition of Ethnic Group, Anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, Xenophobia, and Persecution: WordNet. (2012). Retrieved from http://wordnet.princeton.edu/ Definition of Religious Group: The 'lectric law library. (1995 - 2012). Retrieved from http://www.lectlaw.com/def2/q028.htm Part II Select at least 1 religious and 1 ethnic/racial group not your own from the list below. • Religious groups (based on http://religions.pewforum...
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...Gabriella Hatzopoulos War & Society Uniting Tactics, Divisive Consequences Rape, torture and murder against innocent civilians- what could cause someone to do such a thing? The My Lai Massacre during the Vietnam War was a result of a war tactic that continues to be utilized today: racism and dehumanization of the enemy. This strategy, employed by the Armed Forces and facilitated by the media back on American soil has proven to be dangerous in that it causes both soldiers and civilians to treat an entire group as subhuman and unworthy of empathy. We can see this in the My Lai Massacre and through the persistent hare crimes against Muslims during the United States’ current “war on terror.” On March 16 1968, 140 men of the American Charlie Company entered the village of My Lai and were ordered to kill whoever they saw. There was the belief that the province of Quang Ngai where My Lai was located was a stronghold for Vietcong guerillas. After increasing frustration with losing their soldiers and not progressing in the war as much as they’d like, the group took their anger out on what was thought was a village of Vietcong enemies. It was the first chance they had to meet the enemy face to face instead of through grenades and booby traps and finally get even. Lieutenant William L. Calley ordered a search and destroy mission and urged that anyone in My Lai was to be considered connected to the Vietcong in some way, and should be killed. Though no guerillas were found when...
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...Zishan Mahbub Instructor: Cami Nelson Writing 2010 29 October 2013 What Are They Talking About? “I want to meet the President and tell him, my name is Khan… and I’m not a terrorist”; that was Rizwan Khan pleading to the officer of Dept. of Homeland Security, after he was detained by authorities at Los Angeles Airport who mistake his disability for suspicious behavior as he was reciting prayers in Arabic in his own way. Rizwan, A Muslim who suffers from Asperger's syndrome, a form of high-functioning autism that complicates socialization, embarked on an extraordinary journey to meet the US president to clear his and his son’s name, when his teenage son was killed in a racial violence after the 9-11 terrorist attack. It’s not a real life story; it’s the plot of the world-renowned movie “My Name is Khan”. Unfortunately real life tragedies of Arabic speaker in everyday life don’t always have happy endings like Rizwan’s, in that movie. After 9-11 Arabic speakers were blacklisted, shunned and suffered losses, and some were killed; In the catastrophic event of 9-11 along with the religion Islam, the language got agonized, anyone who speaks it, anyone who is directly or indirectly attached to it – Arabic, the most misunderstood, misjudged and unappreciated language of current Western world. The aim of this essay is to discuss the negative stereotypes of Arabic speakers portrayed in western society with examples given in relation to the role of the media and the effects of religious...
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...University of Phoenix Material Appendix D Part I Define the following terms: |Term |Definition | |Ethnic group |A group that shares culture, religion, race, language, or values is an ethnic group. | | | | |Anti-Semitism |Discrimination against Jews. | |Islamophobia |Prejudice or discrimination against Islam or Muslims. | |Xenophobia |Intense or irrational fear of people from another country. | |Persecution |Mistreatment or abuse of one group by another group. | |Religious group |A group of people who share the same thoughts and beliefs about the origin of the universe, creation, | | |the afterlife and other spiritual traditions. | Part II Select at least 1 religious and 1 ethnic/racial group not your own from the list below. • Religious groups (based on http://religions.pewforum.org/pdf/affiliations-all-traditions.pdf) ...
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...University of Phoenix Material Appendix D Part I Define the following terms: |Term |Definition | |Ethnic group |A group sharing a common or distinctive culture, religion, language, or likeness. | |Anti-Semitism |Discriminating against, or prejudice, or hostility toward Jews. | |Islamophobia |Hatred or fear of Muslims or their products or their culture. | |Xenophobia |An unreasonable fear or hatred of foreigners or strangers or of that which is foreign or strange. | |Persecution |A program or campaign to exterminate, drive away, and or subjugate a group of people based on their | | |religion, race, or beliefs. | |Religious group |A set of individuals whose identity as such is distinctive in terms of common religious creed, beliefs,| | |doctrines, practices, or rituals. | Part II Select at least 1 religious and 1 ethnic/racial group not your own from the list below. • Religious groups (based on http://religions.pewforum.org/pdf/affiliations-all-traditions.pdf) ...
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...The Iranian Revolution and its contribution to Islamic Political Revival Sisy M. Orobitg INR3274: International Relations of the Middle East Professor Alla Mirzoyan December 8, 2008 The Iranian Revolution and its contribution to Islamic Political Revival The Pahlavi Dynasty was for many Iranians a constitutional monarchy turned corrupt that plagued them with economic frustrations, rising unemployment and an overwhelming feeling of anxiety that began during 1975s oil crisis. Lack of government accountability and increasing political unrest among the middle class exacerbated the crisis and allowed the religious clergy to take advantage. Thus, this disillusionment with the governing monarchy paved the way to a revolution that has proven to be unprecedented. The advent of a new Islamic revival proved successful upon the birth of the Iranian Revolution and with the overwhelming consent of its people came the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini as its ruler. With a new political mind-frame, came an authoritarian regime, which volubly conceded to no one, and consolidated itself through each governing tenet. The resilience of this regime brought about terror.( Mehran Kamrava; A Modern Middle East: A Political History since the First World War (2005)) The author of this new political revival which has impregnated into other areas of the Arab World is The Iranian Republic. All Western world influences that attempted...
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...To apply this phenomena into ethically philosophical aspects, other than Utilitarianism, Kantianism created by Immanuel Kant, is another perspective to be considered as well. The major points being discussed in this journal are the motivations leading Anders Breivik to have the intention he has claimed, leading him to embark on the massacre, a universal law of Nature and the history of Western Europe. As for motivations, the first idea is the multiculturalism, Islam threatens the survival of Europe of uncontrolled immigration, the Muslims, which he believes are conquering Europe. The second is the idea of the Labor Party, which he believes has failed the country and the people. To these theories, there are differences of internal and external motivations along the line. For the first internal motivation, according to court officials, Breivik said that “he was trying to save Norway and Western Europe from cultural Marxism and a Muslim takeover” [1]. Basically, his paranoia grew about Islam. Though, the percent of Islam population in Norway is estimated only 1.8% of the total population [2]. Still, He believes himself to fight a one-man war against the roots of evil that he identifies with the internal enemy of Marxism and multiculturalism and the external enemy of Islam. Another internal motivation, few years before, Breivik perceives that Europe is only for the Caucasians. It can only be perfect and conservative to have only Caucasians. Thus, he has the idea that one of the elements...
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...Prophet Muhammad is considered the last Islamic Prophet, and the one to whom Allah had revealed sacred scriptures known as Qur’an. Although Muhammad started with a small group of followers, they quickly grew in number and his teachings started spreading rapidly “through the Middle East to Africa, Europe, the Indian subcontinent, the Malay Peninsula, and China”(Mahdi, Rahman, Schimmel). Today, there are about 1.6 billion Muslims in the world which makes it 2nd largest religion of the world. However, Islam is perceived to be radical and contradictory religion by many non-Muslims. Moreover, due to the terrorist attacks which had been associated with this “religion of peace,” Muslims call it, Islam had been viewed as a “bad” religion. Since America is the “melting pot” of different cultures and religions, non-Muslims should strive to learn about the Islamic religion, its teachings and interpretations, its differences and similarities with Christianity and Judaism, and how to improve their interactions with Muslims (Mahdi, Rahman, Schimmel, 2014). In order to become familiar with Islam, one has to learn about its teachings. The faith is practiced through “Five Pillars of Faith” which, formulated shortly after the Prophet’s death were to serve as “anchoring points of community life” (Mahdi, Rahman, Shimmel, 2014). The shahadah, or profession of faith, is the first...
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...Content Content 0 1. Introduction 1 2. History 1 3. Reason for the Large Scale of Immigration 3 4. Policy and Regulation 4 5. Problems 7 5.1. Illegal Immigration 7 5.2. Religious and Cultural Conflicts among Immigrants and Natives 9 5.3. Social Unrest 11 5.4. Affecting the Education System 12 6. Solutions 14 7. Concession 17 7.1. Alleviate the Pressure of Aging Problem in EU 17 7.2. Boost the economy in Europe 18 8. Conclusion 19 9. Bibliography 19 1. Introduction The issue of immigration has been the hot debated topic in the European Union for a long time. And there is obvious evidence that the upsurge of immigration into the Europe will not be calmed down within a short time. The European Union has developed its competences in the fields of policies and regulations regarding the immigration issue. But the problems still exist and more things need to be done for creating a better balance. The report will first quickly go over the history of human migration and reasons for the recent large scale of immigration into Europe will be analyzed. After, the policies and regulations implemented by nations of Europe and the European Union will be introduced before going deep into the problems brought up by immigration. Then some solutions as to how to settle the current problems will be provided and concessions will be made to maintain a balanced and objective knowledge of the influences of immigration. 2. History While there...
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