Racism In The Middle East
Throughout the past years racism in the Middle East has increased dramatically,
especially religious racism. Religious racism in the Middle East is more than gender or race (1).
Religious racism can be found more in country like Egypt, Iraq, Saudi Arabia and
Lebanon (1).However some other form of racism likes ethnic can be found in many Middle
Eastern countries.
Religious racism has started to occur in most of the Middle Eastern country, since the
invasion of Muslims people to country like Egypt and Lebanon in the seventh century. When
Muslims invaded these country all the people who lived at these country were Christian, so
Muslims started to collect taxes from Christian and treat them like slaves. Muslim enforced
Christian to change their religious to Islam if they didn’t pay these taxes or don’t like Muslims is
treatment and rule. Now day, Christian in the Middle East doesn’t pay tax to Muslim but they get
less job opportunity, face a lot of difficulty if they want built churches or make some renewal to
a church. For example, in Egypt, Christian need to get permission from the president of the
country to built churches and after getting this permission they face a lot of trouble from the city
is government. On the other hand Muslim built their praying house Mosques without facing any
problem; these Mosques is build by the government and all future expenses gets funded it by the
government. Also the constitution of Egypt stated that, Egypt is an Islamic country that is ruled
by the Islamic tradition and law, which made Muslims in this country think that only Muslims
have the right to live in it. As a result there is no officials in the government are Christian (1).
In addition, there are more...
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