Ever since September 11th, 2001, and even before that, people all over the world have had unkind stereotypical opinions about Muslims. Anything from a man with a thick beard to a woman with a hijab makes a lot of people a tiny bit fearful. Our culture today is very much about looks, and our first impressions are based on what we see before us. We stereotype even if we try not to. There is nothing to discourage us not to do this, however.
The conflict has impeded on the ability of ordinary Muslim people to lead a happy and prosperous life. The recent anti-Muslim video that has stemmed from the U.S has provoked Muslim individuals to react in a way that nobody could have expected. The people protested and acted violently in order to demonstrate their disgust at being the victim of further discrimination. Although Paradise Road is a fictionalised movie, it is based on real occurrences and conflict, highlighting the unexpected qualities that are revealed in the face of adversity. Paradise Road uncovers the traumatic effects
Now days people see too far into issues and it simply just becomes an issue of wether it is politically correct or not. If Adam Goodes got booed because he was aboriginal, then every other aboriginal footballer would get booed yes? Adam Goodes is simply playing the victim and taking abusing his position as an aboriginal. If anyone disagrees with the conclusion that booing Adam Goodes is racist, they are seen as a politically incorrect and racist, as now days society cares more about what’s happening than why it’s happening. Most people understand that Adam Goodes is being booed, but they don’t understand why and therefore they hope on a prejudicial bandwagon thinking anyone that boos Adam Goodes is a racist pig.
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.
This brought about Islamophobia. Islamophobia is the bigotry and intolerance against Muslims (Fredman, 2001). The people especially Americans developed abhorrence and fright towards Muslims that led to fearing and disliking them. Islamophobia is also a practice of discerning against Muslims and not including them in financial, community and civic aspects of the state. The Muslims are looked at as people with no significance common to other cultures, a substandard cluster to the west and a vicious political idea rather than a religious conviction that it should be.
Shia genocide occurring in Pakistan has led to a number of catastrophic incidents whereby the victims are suffering from intense pain and are soaked in deep sorrows only because they belong to the Shia sect and possess a different set of beliefs hence have to face the hatred expressed by other religious sects to prove that their beliefs are held superior to any other sect. This has offended the Shia’s reminding them incessantly that they are not a part of Pakistan even though they rightfully are. Such a scenario would not have existed in the first place, had there been limits to freedom of
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.
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.
“Genocide is the ultimate essentializing of the exotic. It defines a type and assigns it a character, projecting what is inwardly hated or feared onto this fetish” (Goodman, 2010). It is wrong to single out a group of people because of their religion, race, or beliefs. I do not believe that people should die because another race thinks they are better than them. I find that to be one of the most ridiculous things in the world.
However, honest peaceful foreign labors form respected counters such as Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Pakistan, India, Nigeria and Philippines suffer the most. In addition, Arabs from other countries, such as Egypt, Yemen, Lebanon and Syria, aren’t safe from the wrath of the livid Saudis’ racist attitude. Not to mention that, Saudi citizens of non Bedouin origins, such as people from Jeddah, Madinah, Makah and the Western Provence of Saudi Arabia in general suffer from the discrimination committed against them by the Saudi citizens of Bedouin origins. Unfortunately, gender discrimination or Sexism is an unshakable part of the culture in Saudi Arabia. Women are harshly harassed and stripped from their basic rights.