Alienation of Islam in America Shayaq Masood Mrs. Gallman AP English AP 11 11 April 2011 What usually runs in people’s mind when they hear the word “Islam” or “Muslim?” . Many mistakenly associate Islam as the religion of the devil; as well as relating all Muslims to be terrorists. Americans tend to relate the terms as to what they hear in the media and political gossip. There are many reasons as to why these social misconceptions towards Islam and Muslims occur, however; it all begins with ignorance about Islam. Ignorance about Islam includes assuming mistakenly about: what the basic principles of Islam are?
Hispanics also believe that their employers in the community do not treat them fairly and do not see them as equals in the community. They fill that the community discriminates against them, with racial slurs” such as your nothing but a stupid Mexican or wet back” This cause's the Hispanic community to withdraw from society and form a community within a community which they think is also another form of discrimination. Hispanics also believe that they’re taking advantage of by
Islam, Islamism, and 9/11 In the post-9/11 world, many Americans’ views of Muslims have changed. Though the vast majority of Muslims practice their religion peacefully, the minority of extremists and militant Islamists who commit terrorist acts are now what many Americans think of when they hear “Muslim”. Islamism and Islam are not separate in the minds of most people, and this leads to incredible misunderstanding and mistreatment of individuals who practice Islam. Islam as a religion seems particularly susceptible to extremism, but as Fawaz A. Gerges argues, the religion of Islam and Islamic texts are not the reason for this. Instead, it is the political, social, and economic standing of so many Muslims and the domination of Western countries that result in the extremism of Islamism.
Any country that conquest another country has to impose it culture by obligating its language, religion, and traditions to fully conquest the other country. To many people from the dependent country, it is hard to learn the language imposed because of the lack of good education and experience. The dominant society may think that because of their anatomy or their race they are not able to do so. In the text “Black Children are Verbally Deprived” by Walt Wolfram, the author explains how the North American society supposes that African American has a different English speech because the segregation and the poor education they have had. Nowadays, Puerto Ricans are having the same problems as the African Americans did before with the North Americans in terms of the use of English.
As a result this idea would be supported be Liberal Feminists because a key belief is equality and so all children raised by lone parents should have support. It can be viewed as unfair for a working person’s salary to be reduced for the benefit of an unemployed lone-parent as many working people also have children. Those with New Right views particularly blame
Others who do support the efforts for equality are often forced side with the religious right for fear of the repercussions that such a solid, motivated power base can bring to bear. The religious right has been successful in creating the illusion that they represent the majority of Americans, and as such create an environment that makes standing up for the rights of oppressed groups deemed to be deviant, a significant social risk. The success of the religious right at fragmenting the much larger moderate portion of the country has effectively isolated minorities, such as LGTB communities, forcing them to fight for rights that the true majority of the country actually supports. The religious right has essentially neutralized the voting public making social reform
To conclude, black people all over the world, wherever they live were for a long time victim of racism for their skin color. People treated them badly only because they had a darker skin color, forgetting that that we are all humans and the color of our skins an where we come from doesn’t indicate our personalities and beliefs. Black in America suffered a lot for reason of racism and went through the hard ships and difficulties
These are the questions I hope to answer. I could simply answer these questions by saying that some people are just ignorant. But I believe that nearly all Christians who dislike gays believe that they have a very strong basis for feeling the way they do. One of the first reasons that these people will give is that the Bible says homosexuality is a sin. The Bible gets the blame for a lot of things but especially for outright rejection of homosexuals.
For many it is tempting to use someone else's perceived homophobia or sexism as justification for subjecting them to racism. I guess the argument goes that if I believe you to be sexist or a homophobe then the gloves are off and I am allowed to be racist towards you. But no one can win in a race to the bottom of this type. Mehdi Hasan highlighted the vitriolic abuse he receives when he seeks to address issues of anti-Muslim discrimination on the basis that he is homophobic – well he must be, he is a Muslim after all and everyone "knows" Muslims are homophobes. Presumed guilty, he is asked to prove his liberal credentials before his reasonable arguments are even given a hearing.
Many different ethnicities have their share of negative stereotypes; African Americans are loud and dangerous, Mexicans are lazy and cannot speak proper English, and Japanese people are seen as shrewd and sly. While it’s not a positive perception these people to have, it doesn’t help that the media is also promoting these perceptions in order to support their advertisements. Kamalipour and Carilli speak about how media influence has changed throughout the years, due to the increased use of technology in today’s society. They continue to say how it is harder for us to escape advertisements as “the modern technology media have permeated practically every aspect of our daily lives. (3)” When watching an advertisement, we