September 11, 2001 was one of the most horrific and historic events of all time. It has made the American citizens stereotype Muslims and those Arabs who appear to be Muslims in America. Those innocent Arabs are being “punished” because of the terrorist groups that are against America and what we stand for. In America, they are no longer looked at the same way; they are all looked at like terrorists and horrible people. The events of 9/11 have created hatred, fear, discrimination and Americans have begun racial profiling because of the Arabs who participated in the attacks.
How 9/11 and The Patriot Act affected America What happened on September 11, 2001, will never be forgotten and is now considered one of the worst terrorism tragedies in American history. Consequently, it had made Americans grow closer together in the wake of the tragedy. Ever since the beginning, America has faced many significant changes, but ever since the atrocity of 9/11, America has made many changes that made an impact to most Americans. For instance, the events of 9/11 may have had a greater impact on our economy, but it also affected the lives of ordinary Americans. In this paper we will examine the impact of 9/11 on Americans and the U.S. economy and why the U.S. responded to the terrorism by enacting the USA Patriot act to “protect” America, which had become a big controversial issue to Americans.
Mr. Kinsley even gives credit to former President George W. Bush Jr. making a “huge increase in public sensitivity to anti-Muslim and anti-Arab prejudice”, a primary focus after the terrorist attacks. Although it took many years for the general population to accept Muslims into society again, it happened. A large contributor to the reintegration of Muslims was the airport securities transition from “racial profiling” spot checks to random spot checks. That being said, and it now being twelve years later, this article does not make for a strong, effective argument. If this were still occurring today, it would not only create a level of resentment within the Muslim-American community, but it would also create a higher level of distrust towards Americans within many different Middle Eastern countries.
Since September 11th, 2001 Arab Americans have been the target of discrimination. This has created an environment of tension among the American population and Arab Americans They have suffered serious hate crimes and labor discrimination by demotion leading to higher unemployment rates. Many Mosques and Muslim-owned business have been vandalized. . The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) reported a 1600% increase in hate crimes against the Arab American population in the year after the events of September 11th.
Vocabulary changed too “terrorism” “bomb” and “terror attacks” were terms used regularly and became a social norm with “war” being added to the list when Iraq was invaded. The acceptable images that were broadcast during this time were also changing the American use of a deck of cards as a hit list of people they wanted dead was a regular occurrence as were images of victories and injured soldiers. While all the graphic images were being beamed into our homes, printed in our newspapers and magazines the music industry was struggling with many radio stations choosing to censor music quite drastically. Many artists and bands had to change to avoid censorship. The attacks by Al Qaeda on September 11th were co-ordinated and calculated they hit the heart of capitalism and also the Pentagon another plane was ditched in a field in Pennsylvania which may have been heading for Washington D.C. almost three thousand people from many different countries were killed that day so the effects were felt world-wide.
Pope Urban II Speech Why did pope Urban’s speech generate support for the first crusade? Pope Urban II’s speech generated large amounts of support for the first crusade because he use a wide range of tactical appeals. In Urban’s speech he used technique of defamatory language to make Muslims sound like terrible people. This was shown when said ‘an accursed race, a race utterly alienated from god’ and ‘They circumcise the Christian, and the blood of the circumcision they either spread upon the altars or pour into vases of the baptismal font’. Sentences such as this one made the people scared and angry at the Muslims and may have change their opinions of the Muslims.
The Effects of News Media Hum/186 September 24, 2013 The Effects of News Media Over the years News media has had a major impact on the American culture. News media has been used as a tool to change the way the American people think, act and treat other cultures. For example: After the 9/11 attack the news media portrayed that the group of individuals that carried out the attacks where Muslim which in return had a major effect on the American people. We started to believe that all Muslim where terrorist. In this essay we will discuss if information media has social responsibility, the role information and news media plays in the shaping of political opinions, the way news reporting changed with the advent of the Internet and converging media, and how electronic media and their convergence transformed journalism and news consumption.
Since the bombing of the World Trade Centers September the 11th 2001, many Muslim people have been single out as terrorist and often find themselves ill-treated in public setting. • How is discrimination faced by one identity group (race, ethnicity, religious beliefs, gender, sexual orientation, age, or disability) the same as discrimination faced by another? How are they different? Racial Discrimination and Gender Discrimination have been implemented in some very similar ways especially here in the United State. The deprivation of the right to vote, denial of employment, and unequal advancement in the
Effects of the Cliché “Actions Speak Louder Than Words” On the 11th of September 2001, the entire world was affected by the terrorist attacks on the United States of America. On the Sunday after these attacks, then U.S. President George W. Bush made a speech announcing his plan to “rid the world of the evil-doers” who traumatized his country earlier that week. Bush also inadvertently drew a parallel from this event to another event that traumatized many: The Crusades that took place during the Middle Ages. "This crusade, this war on terrorism is gonna take awhile” said Bush. The unintentional reference to the Middle Age’s Crusades George W. Bush made in his response to the 9/11 attacks was justly criticized as it connected the problem at hand to the violence of religious warfare, inflicted anxiety upon a vast amount of the world’s population, and holds a fearsome truth.
It changed everything in the United States, from buisnesses to local markets. 9-11 also caused a lot of racism & hatred in the U.S. Its a date that changed history