Islamophobia and 9/11 The September 11 attacks were a sequence of synchronized attacks by the radical group of Al-Qaeda upon the US on the 11th of September 2001. The 19 Islamist terrorists allied to Al-Qaeda hijacked commercial passenger jets and crashed two of the airliners deliberately on the Twin Towers and killing everyone on board. These events led to nearly 3,000 deaths and about 400,000 people were open to the elements of dust, smoke and a lot other chemicals. The fact that the attack was perpetrated by Muslims, there was a generalized view that Muslims were terrorists (Fiorenza, 2001). This brought about Islamophobia.
What is politicization of Islam? Is Islamist organization Hamas politicized in Palestine? Although the number of secular countries dominates over the number of non-secular states, religion remains a major part of many modern societies. In recent years, the politicization of religion, particularly Islam, has become a hot issue in international politics. After the shocking events, such as the terrorist attacks on the Twin Towers, the controversial debates on whether Islam plays a major role in foreign policy decision-making broke out.
My analysis mainly focuses on semantic fields and syntax. A semantic field of fear runs throughout the discourses of both Blair and Bush. Bush began his speech with the following sentence; “Good evening… series of deliberate and deadly terrorist attacks”. Blair also opts to utilise the same method “it was the events of September 11 that marked a turning point in history, where we confront the dangers of mankind, it was tragedy, an act of evil”. Due to the semantic field of fear and terror running throughout the discourses of Bush and Blair their choice of lexis is crucial in conveying their political ideologies.
We also are often discriminated in public places. Muslims nowadays are afraid to say they’re Muslims because of all the hate they will get. I myself was bullied, and one term they used was for me blowing up buildings and me being a terrorist. Just like how the blacks were discriminated, it is our turn in the 21st century. The media blamed us for the 9/11 attacks, yet it wasn’t us.
One of those is veiling, which is a globally polarizing issue, a spotlight for struggle between Islam and the West, and between contemporary and traditional interpretations of Islam. Veiling has been abused and insulted in many different places, societies and circumstances across time. However, its biggest misuse is especially harmful today with respect to the Muslim veil, often seen by the West as a challenge to modernity and secular awareness, and even as a terrorist threat. Besides, it has become a symbol of Islamic solidarity and anti-Western sentiment. Part of my goal in writing this paper is to shine a bright light on the veiling stereotypes of Muslim women, hidden within the dark shadows of Muslim societies.
Bianca Neri April 26, 2011 The “Northern Triangle”: A History of Violence and a Future of Urban, Youth Gangs Compounded by Drug Trafficking On December 24, 2005 a group of Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) gang members opened fire with their AK-47s killing 28 passengers in the city of Chamalecon, Honduras. The massacre was aimed at random victims and was meant as a protest and a warning against the government's crackdown on gang activities in the country. MS-13 and rival gang 18th Street trace their origins to the Rampart neighborhood of Los Angeles, California but the reach of their brutality has grown to span dozens of countries and has developed into a recognized transregional threat in the Americas. Central America’s neighbor to the north
They spot two Arab immigrants and begin taunting them with racial taunting, this most likely would be a hate crime. It is not terrorism. As the Arabs try and walk away, several adult members of an anti-Semitic neo-Nazi group see the boys. They fold their arms in a neo-Nazi stance and stare at the Jewish teenagers, and their intent is to intimidate and threaten violence. This too can be a hate crime if the jurisdiction has outlawed nonverbal threats based on race, religion, sexual orientation or
However, a regular Australian man was trying to talk to his former girlfriend at a nightclub in Bali and was pushed to the ground and punched while four of the attacker’s friends watched on and kicked the victim. The attacker and his friends were taken to court and put in gaol. These incidents clearly show that there is a double standard when it comes to athlete’s behaviour and if it were fair Nick D’Arcy would have been gaoled. If society did not have double standards as to what behaviour is considered acceptable than all people should face the same penalties for women abuse. In 2009 Nathan Bock assaulted his girlfriend.
The Reluctant fundamentalist warns not only against stereotypes about Muslim people and countries, but against stereotypes of all kinds. Discuss. The novel The Reluctant Fundamentalist brings out a message about stereotypical people. Mostly against the Muslim population. Mohsin Hamid expresses America is made out to be very prejudice of Muslim people in this novel.
Jacqueline Lucas Anti-Americanism in the Muslim World: The Revolt of Islam The cause for Anti-American unrest in the Middle East has long been debated whether the root cause is from cultural differences or a result of U.S. foreign policy. Bernard Lewis wrote an essay titled The Revolt of Islam, which takes the former stance that Muslim Anti-American sentiment is a result of their traditional, religion based culture and antimodernist history. American involvement with the Middle East has been going on for almost a century. In recent times, President Bush declared his “war on terrorism,” while at the same time Osama bin Laden waged a religious war against the United States. In bin Laden’s October 7th video, he mentions “more than 80 years” of suffering.