Lemon continues by saying that “building a mosque at Park 51 is an extraordinary circumstance” and this is a very heated issue because many people lost their loved ones on 9/11. Patel mentioned that Muslim Americans were also amongst those who lost their loved ones but many Americans only seem to forget this and focus on the other religions victims. Incorporating what Lemon has said, it seem like he doesn’t want the mosque to be built next to ground zero because Muslim were apart of the 9/11 attack. Just because a small group of Muslims blew up the twin towers doesn’t mean that all Muslims are evil and heartless and they should be punished by refusal of constructing a mosque near ground
Policeman of the World Policeman of the World Lucinda Richmond HIS105 12 years after 9/11, and amidst yet another debate on whether to bomb yet another Muslim country, America must stop asking the question, "Why do they hate us?" Forget the debate on Syria, we need a debate on why we're always debating whether to bomb someone. Because we're starting to look not so much like the world's policeman, but more like George Zimmerman: itching to use force and then pretending it's because we had no choice. Now, I'm against chemical weapons, and I don't care who knows it. And there's no doubt a guy like Bashar al-Assad deserves to get blown up: using toxic chemicals on unsuspecting civilians is purely and profoundly evil.
The World: One Quarter Terrorist The article “Don’t Fear Islamic Law in America” by Eliyahu Ster is a short, general article about how a high percentage of people in America believe that at least some, if not all, of the Shariah Law should be prohibited in the United States because it poses a threat to the American people. Ster, an assistant professor of religious studies and history at Yale, also compares the treatment of American Muslims to that of Jews in the 19th century Europe throughout the article. The author is definitely against discrimination of any kind toward Muslims and thinks taking away their religious rights “ignores our country’s successful history of religious tolerance and assimilation.” When reading the article, I could not stop thinking to myself, “are there really that many people out there in the United States that do not have the same stand on this issue as this author?” The fact that people are
Before those attacks, I thought we lived in a perfect world where nothing bad like that could ever happen in my time, I was so naïve, so young and didn’t know any better. And, in our case, it changed the way we think of people, cultures, and societies in a negative way. In one way people started attacking the middle eastern/Muslim descent. All Muslims after that day, were pretty much looked at as terrorists, and it sucked because being a Muslim myself people started looking at me differently
The one thing that everyone should take away is maybe no one owns those holy sites that were fought over for centuries, but maybe they belong to all religious groups and should hold enough religious significance, so no matter what you religious affiliation is a person can go there without fear of life. The Pope and the highest-level religious person from each religion should set down and create a state or several states to manage all the holy sites, sort of a coop. Both Christians and Muslims should learn from history and not judge people for whom they were, but who they are. There is no real fundamental reason why the crusades of the past or the crusades of the present had to
Many New York City residents and fellow Americans feel that this is a direct “Slap in the face”, and a mockery of the countless lives lost on that tragic day. Within this paper I hope to persuade the Islamic Community of the dangers that the Muslim Community center poses for the occupants, everyone, and everything around it. This paper will accurately identify the risks and detriments of building a Muslim Community Center within the WTC vicinity and thoroughly explain why it should not be built there. Thesis Statement A Muslim community center should not be built near the World Trade Center site because it poses a clear danger to Muslims everywhere. Working Outline- WTC Muslim Community Center I.
I’d be doing the same thing for which I am arguing by classifying everyone as racists or ignorant. Not the case at all and never will be. Over the years it has calmed down slowly but surely. I see people defending each other now who aren’t even the same religion or race, and it’s so beautiful. There are more cases of religious hate crimes related to Islam in Europe than in America, which is surprising considering America was the one most affected by 9/11.
Not at all, this is not the real picture of this universally accepted religion .I am not here to justify any incident or any attack carried out in the last few decades, whilst I condemn the attacks on twin towers ,London Bombings, and the Isis killings. But I also must denounce the attacks carried out by united states on Afghanistan and Iraq where innocent people in huge numbers were massacred . My question is that, Is it justified to bombard a place for one man in Afghanistan including the Television network Of Aljazeera, which was broadcasting the live images of the entire scene and does the apology for the Iraq war by the Bush Administration rationalizethe killings of innocent civilians in Iraq ?Actually the seed of terrorism was sown ,after the vandalism of Iraq and Afghanistan by the so called super power nation ,because injustice gives birth to
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
This is acceptable for objects, but not for human beings. Today if we saw a group of Muslims on the street, would we stare? Would we judge them on the way they look and feel threatened? These recent tragic terrorist attacks were not committed by the entire Muslim population, however, we tend to paint them all with the one brush. “This is racism, a definition for racism would be treating a person on, the basis of his or her race first, rather than as a person.” (Martin, 1990) The refugee crisis is a prime example of people’s social identity being influenced by racial status.