The hatred and racism that Americans displayed throughout this documentary was astonishing. Anyone that wore a turban were labeled a terrorist no matter what their beliefs. It's amazing how we're the “Freedom County” but showed some much racism and verbal abuse toward these
I see people calling Indians terrorists, whose country isn’t even involved whatsoever. That’s like going to a Chinese or Japanese person and blaming them for Vietnam. People are so uneducated and ignorant and have no idea what is even going on. They just go along with everything else and imitate what they see and hear. What’s even worse is how the actions of few ACTUAL terrorists, labeled the billions of people in Islam and the millions in the middle east, Asia, and in the U.S. terrorists automatically as well.
However, more recently there has been a lot of tension between patriotic Britons and Muslims which has led to a lot of anti-Islamic propaganda among the British public. One might ask what the reasons are for this media and campaign portrayal. And are they justifiable? This topic was chosen in light of the tensions building from 9/11, the London Underground Bombings and the Iraq war as well as the more recent murder of British soldier, Lee Rigby, by two Muslim extremists which led to a wave of anti-Muslim propaganda across not only Britain but around the world. Due to the controversy that could be caused by this topic sources from patriotic Britons, Muslims and the media will be used to avoid bias and create balanced and well formulated argument.
It is important to know the differences between prejudice, stereotype, discrimination and privilege (Harvey & Allard, 2009). In the article retrieved from www.associatedcontent.com Wright stated “regardless of their purpose or status Arabs and Muslims in the United States have been marked by poignant reminders of the social unrest that have plagued their communities since the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.”Automatically when either of the groups is presented, it is an immediate association with the 9-11 attacks. This is because of the stereotype which leads to discrimination. Stereotypes are unreliable generalizations about all members of a group that do not take into account individual differences within a group (Harvey & Allard, 2009). The ADC has sent a request out to the American people to help stop the hate crimes and discrimination against the Arab and Muslim Americans.
This legislation was introduced in a rapid fashion following the attack of 9/11. Because of this, it had some points of vagueness and left it open for misinterpretation. Organizations like the ACLU fed on this and released multiple reports demeaning the substance of the Act. In doing this, it introduced fear to the public that their civil liberties were being greatly compromised. In reality, the majority of the legislation is directed towards people suspected of terrorism.
9/11 has had a huge impact on Americans directly. There were many men, women, and children who died. The amount of death has made many Americans sullen and it has affected the way that we view terrorism. The fact that we were hit in the center of our trade, where no one thought we were vulnerable, still unnerves Americans today. We were attacked when we least expected it, and what's more, the attack, to some, was successful.
As with genocide, terrorism does not create any moral dilemma to the society that implements it, yet the one that it is being used against is of the opinion that it is one of the worst things that can be used. The United States condemns all of the Muslim extremist organizations for their use of terrorism, yet the United States used the same tactics during the Revolutionary war. The exploits of the fictitious character Robin Hood used what would be seen as terrorist acts against a portion of the society in which he lived in, yet it is glorified in movies and books. Pirates also used and continue to use terrorism today. In the United States and England, English pirates that terrorized other nations are glorified, while all other pirates are
Therefor we know mass hysteria is a group disease. Some of the factors needed to escalate things to a grand scale are things such as lying, faking, and a large group of people being ill. If such a thing happened to where everyone was to act like this it would end up causing an epidemic all over. What prompts us to be so appalled by the Salem Witch Trials and the Holocaust is that we are all naïve. We can see what is happening but we never feel the need to act and do something about it.
“At the moment, there is a myth in circulation, a fable that goes something like this: Radical terrorists will take advantage of our fussy legality, so we may have to suspend it to beat them. Radical terrorists mock our namby-pamby prisons, so we must make them tougher. Radical terrorists are nasty, so to defeat them we have to be nastier.” (Applebaum). This is the story being used for validating of torture. There is no proof that this story has any truth.
Adnan Hajj of embellishing Israeli air-strike damage in Beirut on August 5th 2006 I found you can’t believe what you see and that the era photographs being used as a form of document of truth are a thing of the past. The interesting point for me that people are so used to seeing the horror of war that the photographers feel a need to make it look worse than the photographs show as if its not enough I think if I lived in the city where the bombs were dropped and you new that photographers were doing this it would make you fill me with dispare. Although I have always known about you can manipulate photographs I wasn’t aware of the extent of its use in photojournalism airbrushing for fashion is one thing but using as a tool for giving war photos more of an impact to sell to the press I think is