...Islamophobia Throughout the majority of the developed countries, we are all entitled to privately practice our own religions or faiths. For most, the age of religious intolerance has come to an end, but some faiths are still experiencing prejudice around the world. Islamophobia is an unfounded fear of the Islamic faith and, while it has existed for thousands of years, has recently become a major problem in our society. Common Facts about Islamophobia The list below, provided by the Council of American-Islamic Relations, details many of the misconceptions commonly held by Islamophobic people: * Islam is unchanging and refuses to adapt to new realities or changing times. * Islam shares no common values with any of the other major religions. * Islam is no longer relevant and their ideals are irrational. * Islam is tied to terrorism. * Islam promotes violence. * None of these items are true by any means, but are still commonly held by many people suffering from Islamophobia. While these unfortunate misconceptions have been held for centuries, Islamophobia has been on the rise in recent times. Since the September 11th attacks in the U.S., many uninformed Americans have started viewing followers of the Islamic faith as an “enemy” of the United States. This sentiment is absolutely untrue. There is no link between Islam and terrorism and this type of incorrect information is a leading cause of Islamophobia. Causes of Islamophobia The leading cause...
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...Reader Response Journal Entry – Satires In class, we went over the definitions of a satire and began to talk about what elements of a satire are seen in Huck Finn. A satire is described as the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people’s stupidity or vices. As I began to think more about what a satire means, I realized that in modern day TV shows, politics, and other sources of entertainment, elements of a satire are often brought in. For example, Family Guy, Tosh.0, Saturday Night Live, Chelsea Lately, and the Simpsons are all television shows that could be considered satires, since they all mock people, exaggerate, and use comedy to expose people. I’m surprised that it was so easy to find TV shows that are satires; it’s almost bad in a way, since so many popular shows are making fun of people. Satires aren’t only used to make fun of people though. Often, the use of sarcasm and amplification on their own, create a satire. In chapters 17-18 of Huck Finn, it is clear that Mark Twain is satirizing something in particular. I believe that Mr. Twain is mocking the Civil War through the feud between the Shepherdsons and the Grangerfords. This feud has been going on for so long that these two families can’t even remember how it all started. They say that they only way that the feud will end is when everyone has killed everyone else, because there will be no one left to fight; “a feud is this way: a man has a quarrel with another man and kills...
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...comes along but precautionary measures are taking place in the form of preventive wars as well. These wars are supposed to constitute anti-terrorism measures. Basic human rights experience vague violation and this solely effect does not comprise a form of fundamental anti-terrorism measures. A vast number of innocent civilians is being enforced to embrangle in situations that are not involved while they also have to encounter potential disgraceful incidents. The truth is that anti-terrorism measures ought to exist, so that certain terrorist actions are prevented; yet they should be demonstrated and implemented in a form that their function operates in favour of the human rights. THE CASE OF MUSLIMS IN GREAT BRITAIN-ISLAMOPHOBIA As far as Muslims in Great Britain are concerned, they formulate one of the most significantly pressing concerns. A massive increase of attacks is taking place on the minority of Muslims in Britain. A great number of apparently rising threats to civil liberties appear in the form of certain security measures. The matter is that these specific security measures conduce to the disappearance and not essential existence of the human rights of...
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...has been a growing trend of islamophobia in the U.S. as more and more Americans are beginning to view people who follow the faith of Islam to be either a terrorist themselves or a terrorist sympathizer. In more recent years other acts of terror have grabbed the public’s attention such as the Boston Marathon bombings, as well as the attacks on the Charlie Hebdo magazine in Paris France. Some Americans now feel that the U.S. government should start keeping surveillance on Muslim communities. The main driving force behind this growing anti-Muslim way of thinking is the fearmongering, ratings-seeking agendas of 24 hour television news companies. Cable news networks like CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, as well as many others have over the years developed a negative bias in the way that they represent the Muslim community. Discrimination of Muslims in T.V. news cycles are harmful because it can cause potential conflicts between Muslim and non-Muslim Americans, it projects the idea that Muslim is synonymous with the word terrorist, and can lead to the marginalization of an entire ethnic group. Islamophobia is a term used to describe the close-minded prejudice against Muslims and is also defined as deep hatred of Islam and Muslims. Islamophobia has existed in the United States for decades prior to September 11, 2001, and is believed to go as far back as the 1930s as the more and more Muslims began to emigrate to the U.S. In the past two decades however islamophobia is becoming a bigger and bigger...
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...World War I, the Iraq War, and the Afghanistan War, to name a few. Prejudice is a serious problem in the world today, and its presence is especially prominent in the United States in the form of Islamophobia, or the bias against people of the Islamic faith. Many political leaders are doing nothing to stop the spread of Islamophobia in America. In fact, quite a few encourage it and share its beliefs. Many people, political leaders included, believe that people of the Islamic faith are terrorists and are a threat to America based on the actions of very few Islamic people. Islamophobia is morally wrong because it encourages a mob mentality in Americans, stereotypes an entire race, and prosecutes innocent people based on the actions of a few. Islamophobia encourages a mob mentality in Americans because many people, especially those of Caucasian descent, are...
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...Cliff Kincaid’s article, “We Need More Islamophobia, Not Less,” preaches about how he believes that most people are siding with Muslims. He disagrees with this and explains why he wants more Islamophobia. He states how Obama and the FBI are not being reasonable and need more Islamophobia to stop the massacres that are happening. His goal is to try to help people be more fearful and against Islam. Although many people are afraid of Muslims because of what the news invents about them, Kincaid misjudges Islam in ways that aren’t true by saying Obama is to blame, unreasonably not stating the other side’s opinion, and asking many rhetorical questions as if he is not sure about what he claims. The first part of the article discusses Kincaid criticizes Obama when it comes to foreigners and comforting them. Then he says how Obama doesn’t apologize to the rest of the country for letting...
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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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...Exploring the Roots of Islamophobia in Great Britain with a Special Regard to the Educational Sector Table of Content 1. Introduction………………………………………………………………………….1 2. Islamophobia in the Multicultural State Great Britain …..………………………2 3. Islamophobia and the Education Sector….……………………………………...4 4. What to do against it .…..………………….………………..…………………….8 5. Conclusion………………………………………………………………………....10 6. Bibliography………………………………………………………………………..11 Introduction I have been interested for many years in multiculturalism and have strengthened this interest and gained some useful insight by choosing the Seminar “Multicultural Britain”. This seminar shed a light on current British debates, concerning multiculturalism. In everyday’s life I can see in many different branches, like arts, education or business, just to mention a few, how people of different heritage facing each other often competitive and sometimes even negative or racist. This topic caught my interest because I simply do not want more war; and there is no doubt that there is a war against Islam and Muslims, however it may express its power. The special example of Islamophobia, which is a widespread and controversial topic, addresses or rather attacks Islam and Muslims. Not all racist movements manifest their values in political activism. It is rather a matter of educational, cultural, social and ethical norms and values. Therefore I find it necessary to introduce...
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...moral panic situations. The three criteria that Young (2011) suggests to be central to moral panic include; the propagating and circulating of stereotypical images of deviance, reinforcing and building on people’s feelings of alarm and propelling or engaging in deviance amplification. A clear example of a moral panic that fits Young’s three criteria is the concept of ‘Islamophobia’. ‘Islamophobia’ is a broad term that allows for prejudice, hatred and fear toward Islam (Morgan 2014). This moral panic has resulted in distress for many Muslims who have been brushed with criminality and terrorist labels especially after the repercussion of 9/11 (Collins 2005). It is evident that following on from the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Islamic and Muslim culture has been a target in media speculation and have somewhat become ‘folk devils’ with many becoming subject to demonisation (Tottoli...
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...hate crimes like this one have been increasing over time in America since 9/11. The rise of hate crimes towards Muslims is mainly caused by Islamophobia. Islamophobia is the irrational fear, discrimination, or hatred of Islam and its followers and can be rooted so deep into people's minds, many may not know they have it. Islamophobia does not just appear from nowhere, It is caused by people unwilling to...
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...psychological importance of the veil: shaping first impressions 7 The present research 10 Method 12 Positive Survey 13 Non Muslim perception of Islam in the West 13 Non Muslim perception of Islam in the West 15 Non Muslim perception of Islam in the west 20 Non Muslim perception of Islam in the west 23 Communication scale 28 Islamophobia scale 29 Design 30 Participants 30 Materials 30 Procedure 30 Analysis 31 Potential applications 33 Limitations and future directions 34 Conclusion 36 References 37 Abstract This research study will aim to measure the Islamophobic beliefs in non-Muslim people living in the West in multi-cultural, multi-ethnic and multi-faith societies such as London. To conduct this study, I will be replicating a study that has been produced by Everett et al (2015) called ‘Covered in Stigma? I will be conducting this research project to test Non-Muslim responses towards Muslim appearing people such as men in traditional clothes, beards and women in head coverings. I will use quantitative analysis to test my hypothesis, using two questionnaires, the Islamophobia scale and the Communication Scale as well as images of Muslim men and women in Islamic clothing depicted in an affirmative light or a poorly to prime participants beforehand. Introduction Prejudice and inequity towards the Muslim community has risen largely over the last few years. There is great proof indicating that Muslims...
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...has been deemed on it, also, to reiterate that the Qur'an or any other Islamic text do not support the views of oppression of women. Through my investigation of the two given articles, I will support my view with the help of three different articles that share the same type of commentary on the issue of Veiling. My inclusion of the article Eastern Veiling, Western Freedom by Nancy J. Hirschmann will bring about the realities of the Islamic practice of veiling 'in terms of the notion of freedom', another concept that is mentioned several times in resemblance is how the Westerners view the Veil as the 'ultimate symbol, if not tool, of gender oppression'. The next article I am using to support my stance is Unveiled Sentiments: Gendered Islamophobia and...
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...Research Paper Racism and Immigration Rémi Drapeau Student ID: C3623 Mailbox # SH649 Work presented to Kimberly Cook, course professor Social Problems & Their Impact on the Workplace BA Organizational Management, OM3413 Degree Completion Program Crandall University April 12th, 2016 Introduction 5 What Is Racism and who does it affect? 6 Challenges in the labour market 8 Who are the Muslims in Canada? 10 Aboriginals in Canada 11 References 13 Introduction Racism, immigration and exclusion are topics that seem to go hand in hand. From what I have learnt in the past few weeks, they are all far more present than I had realized. We see it in schools, justice system, job market etc. In the next few pages I will explain how they correlate in Canada today. More specifically relating to aboriginals and Muslims. Canada is home to more than 200 ethnic groups, with 16% of its population (over five million individuals) identifying as a visible minority. Information from the Census showed that Canada’s visible minority population grew 27% from 2001 to 2006, five times faster than the population as a whole. The diversity of Canada’s population is expected to continue to increase over the next two decades. According to projections by Statistics Canada up to 14.4 million Canadians (or about one-third of the population) will be members of a visible minority by 2031. The religious composition of the country is also changing, with some of the largest...
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...September 11, fourteen years ago. Almost yearly, Islamophobic hate crimes have occurred unswervingly five times higher in America than the pre-terror average and they consistently keep increasing since the most recent terrorist attacks produced by terrorist groups such as ISIS and Al-Qaeda, both “Islamic groups.” The horrible acts that these radical Muslim groups have committed make the large majority of people in the world falsely believe that we fellow Muslims do not condemn the terrorism and that evidently Islam as a whole utterly agrees with the Radical Islamic groups. Thus, demonizes and marginalizes us for such acts that we do not commit nor support. Such bigotry against Muslims and stereotypical slurs are just a few words to describe Islamophobia. A series of anti-Muslim hate crimes has had a terribly huge effect on the corruption and vandalism of holy places where Muslims solely go to, to worship their god. Schools like the Islamic School of Rhode Island, a day school for students of all cultures and backgrounds, has been vandalized with horrid words such as, “Now this is a hate crime” “pigs” and other vulgar slurs against Muslim. This is followed by an Islamic center being destroyed due to an arson attack, a fire broke out and utterly demolished the Quba Islamic Institute in Houston, Texas, a fireman posted on his social media account “Let it burn, block the fire hydrant.” Just by these two hate crime filled events and many more, it ultimately tells us that Muslims anywhere...
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...University of Phoenix Material Appendix D |Term |Definition | |Ethnic group | An ethnic group is a group of people who all share the same characteristics, religion, or race. | |Anti-Semitism | Anti-Semitism is discrimination against or hatred of Jews. | |Islamophobia | Islamophobia is the fear of, prejudice against, or hatred of Islam or Muslims. | |Xenophobia | Xenophobia is the fear or hatred of anyone who is from a strange place, race, or anything foreign.| |Persecution | Persecution is the act of harassment, punishment, or to drive away people based on their religion,| | |race, or beliefs. | |Religious group | Religious groups are a group or set of people with the same religious beliefs, practices, and | | |rituals. | Religious and ethnic/racial group o Buddhism (Theravada or Mahayana) o Pacific Islander (Polynesian descent) Buddhism is different from the other religions in a lot of different ways. Buddhism is based on the life and...
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