Imagine a hard working woman in the United States with a job as a receptionist who supports two children aged five and six. She rents a house, supports her children, pays taxes and poses no threats, but she and her children are deemed as evil to authority and others in the United States. Why? Many view them as threats because they follow the Islamic religion. The Muslim woman and her children fled the civil war in Syria for asylum in America, but rather than continuous security and support in America; she faced deportation after Donald Trump announced his plans for Muslims in the United States. Trump's presidential campaign was notoriously named racist, sexist, and discriminatory against religion throughout his campaign because of the remarks …show more content…
FOX reports were in favor of Trump's idea because it would make America more secure. Security of the nation is a significant factor to the FOX network as is evident in one article titled "Trump Doubles Down on Vow to Bar Muslims" by Christopher Snyder. In the article, Snyder backs up Trump's statement against Muslims by adding some context to the infamous remark. Snyder added phrases from Trump, such as "You're going to have many more World Trade Centers if you don't solve it -- many, many more and probably beyond the World Trade Center," aiming to take away some of the racializations behind Trumps' words (Snyder, 2015). Another article from FOX written by Dana Blanton, argues that the attack in San Bernardino, California that killed fourteen people was the motive for Trump to make these statements as the couple who carried out the attack were Muslim (Blanton, 2015). This addition to the news article promotes the idea that Trump's proposed policy would do well at reducing terrorism by Muslims. Lastly, in a FOX interview with Bill O'Reilly, Donald Trump said the ban on Muslims entering the United States "is about security, it's not about religion" (Trump Says Vow, 2015). From this, it appears that FOX News does also racialize Muslims by assuming that most are inherently terrorists wishing to harm …show more content…
Despite this, Trump’s point is strong since his best interest is the security of the United States. He was unsure of how precisely to target the Muslims wishing to harm Americans, so he called for a shutdown until he could create tighter security controls for the borders of America. It is smart to stop and rethink solutions for a problem rather than continue with the problem and take a chance of things becoming worse. Overall, mediality has a lot do with how people view Donald Trump as “‘mediality’ (media accounts of events) is often a distorted mirror of events” (Markus & Moya, 2010). Before the 2016 election race relations seemed to be okay, but as a result of this distorted image people are given about the discrimination against individual races in the United States, the state of race relations in America seems to be getting worse. There has always been some tension between all races, and there will continue to be, but recently there has been an uproar of protests. This is very much so because of Trumps’ ideologies and wishes for the United States as president, but also because of how the media alters headlines to make them more shocking. Trump is unforgiving and very public about his ideas, and this is something that the nation has not seen in a while. This is because it is
Imagine being discriminated anyplace you went, with glares from many and you haven’t done anything to receive those judgments. Muslim Americans in the U.S. have to deal with that discrimination every day post the events that happened on 9/11. Some take drastic measures such as changing their birth name, in hopes that they can avoid being judged by others. Muslim teenager Alisha, told her story that while visiting Six Flags with her family, an American man yelled at her father with the racial comment, “F**k you Osama!” She would also get asked offensive questions, like if she hated Jews too. People who engage in relationships with someone from the Muslim population are harassed for having a romantic affiliation with someone who they would call a “terrorist”. Along with getting called horrific names, many have become objects of suspicion.
Powell, Brian. "Fox News' Racial Crime Coverage Is Hurting People." Media Matters for America. Media Matters for America, 23 Aug. 2013. Web. 13 May 2014.
Following 9/11 individuals who have ties to the Middle East have been scrutinized. “Muslims have endured alarming rates of prejudice, discrimination, and hate crimes.”(Amer&Bagarsa,2013). According to Amer hate crimes against Muslim Americans have significantly increased since 9/11 to the point of being “the most prevalent hate crime taking place on American soil.” (Amer&Bagarsa,2013). “The racialization of an ‘Arab-Middle Eastern-Muslim’ Other has been constituted by a dual process of cultural racism and the racialization of national origin… This solidified the racial
The author expressed, “Kathy had not wanted their family to become collateral damage in a war that had no discernible fronts, no real shape, and no rules” (252). Both Kathy, a converted Muslim, and Zeitoun, a born Muslim, knew what the future looked like in terms of discrimination and inequality. The idea of islamophobia is so open to different interpretations, and the fight against it has not yet accomplished all of the goals. The war against Islamophobia, as well as other discriminatory debates, has shown to be a dirty one. Many opinions are gathered and slurs are formed, which make immigrating as a Muslim very difficult. America is known as the land of the free, but for many families of the Muslim faith, it does not always feel that
Because of widespread accusations of terrorism and the general fear that Muslims are terrorists and the entire religion is at fault, Muslims are being treated like they’re less than human. Similarly, Jews were treated like they were less than human because many German citizens blamed their struggles on Jewish people. The only difference is that America hasn’t mass murdered millions of Muslim citizens, at least not yet. I am by no means saying that America will have a neo-Holocaust with Muslim people, but there are far too many similarities in the treatment of these people simply because of their religions. During his run for president, Donald Trump proposed a total ban on Muslims entering the United States. He also suggested that Muslims turn in other Muslims for acting suspiciously, and that all Muslims enter a national registry and wear some sort of identification. This is terrifyingly similar to what Adolf Hitler ordered of the Jewish people living in Germany, including the infamous yellow star that Jews had to
Trump has said and believes that all immigrants that enter the United States are bad and are set out to endanger the lives of all individuals
Islam has influenced many cultures around the world. For centuries, Islam has had an immense influence on the Afghan culture. According to this religion, women have no rights. The men took advantage of this system by translating only what they wanted from the Koran; to enslave the women in our culture for their own desires. From the beginning, the women on no account had any civil rights or have power over their own lives, and most were uneducated and had accepted what their teachers taught in schools and mosques. My family moved to the US when the Russians invaded Afghanistan. I thank god to be one of the lucky women who did not have to live in Afghanistan and for giving me a better place to live in America. Unfortunately, this was not the case for the majority of the Afghan women. Under the cruel Taliban government the women were banned to work, and were not allowed outside their homes without being escorted by a man. The film Osama, inspired by a true story, is about Osama, a young girl who did lived in Kabul while the Taliban regime. Through Osama's story, I had a chance to see what it was like to live in Afghanistan as a woman. This is a story of a girl whose faith was in the hands of many different people: her family, the Taliban soldiers, and the city judge. Osama and I have different lives on different continents; however, we both could have had more rights and better life if we were born men.
In viewing the vedio two difining events come to mind Immigratiom Act of 1990 and The American Civil War. The Immigration Act of the 1990was an amendement incacted by George W. Bush but first introduced by Ted Kenndy in 1989 . The Immigratiion Act of 1990 is to increase the number of legal immigrants into the Unites States it also brought in the lottery system which randomly assigns visa to immigrants but it also prohibited visa's from being given to certian counties and homosexuality, like Prisdent Trumps is doing now with the Musilims. and The American Civil War in the 19th century. Trump's bias against Mexican American and other nationalities. He spreads propagrando aganist Mexicans cliaming they are the cause of the crime rate going
Mr. Diaz goes on about the presidential speech, Donald had that week, then Donald repeats his thoughts over Mexicans. He then comments about the possibilities of terrorists coming to the US from the Mexican border, that it could be possible, especially looking at the situations that could happen like 9/11. As a politician, he should have more of the information on hand than those in the lower class or Tv News. When you think of situations, it could be a possibility, yet 9/11 isn’t sufficient enough to become an example that could happen. The terrorist that came to destroy the peace, came with permission (VISA) from the country. There was no need to come through the border we have come to a time where there is an easier path than using the border to come pass by and kill thousands of people. Donald Trump has been looking at the negative things about Latinos, however, hasn’t looked at the important situations. Gay equality has just become approved this year, and now he wants to start another conflict with the people of this country. Even in the year 2015, we still have the problem of looking at colored people differently. Racial Equality, a common thing we still have marched for even though it has been years since it became established. Congress has voted for equality (Equal Rights Amendment), yet why do we see people like Donald Trump still going against other ethnicity? The marches are still going on, people are still standing up, yet nothing has changed. Even people who are non-Latinos could become affected with remarks Trump says. If Donald, who has no sense in accepting Hispanics, may have similar feelings with another race. Removing undocumented doesn’t only mean Mexicans, but others as well, such as Asian, Cubans, and Central American People (Guatemalans, Salvadorans
Muslims should be banned from entering the United States and we should have a database to track every American Muslim” (Healy). This recent statement by the Presidential candidate, Donald Trump asserts that Islamophobia in the United States is not a myth. Islamophobia is a serious issue which distresses many Muslims in the United States today. Thus, creating tension between Muslims and many fellow Americans leading to hate crimes, stereotypes, and inhumanity. This phenomenon is one which was created by Radical Islam and given life by the media.
...his race talk has to come with a large amount of bias. I believe that ethnic controversy has always been a means to separate us. I feel that way because people have made it the way it is. The United states in commonly referred to as a melting pot however, the darker your skin the further to the burner you fall. We cannot blame one country individually but the human race as a whole for creating something so depurating. The human race, collectively, has attempted to fix the race issue around the world multiple times but there are always counterparts who disagree or simply think they are the superiors. It is kind of disappointing to still see that this type of collective hatred still appears all over the world today. I do not think the issues will not die down anytime soon, especially after all of this time. I guess it is true what they say. History does repeat itself.
Islam is a monotheistic religion, centered around the teachings of the Qu’ran and serving Allah (meaning God in Arabic). However, this Abrahamic religion has been harshly discriminated against in the United States for years. Most prominently throughout the last twelve years, post September 11th, 2001. Unfortunately, issues such as socialization through the media, power distribution, religious ignorance, stereotyping and visible differences have contributed to the ill attitudes towards Muslims. This paper will examine how Americans have been socialized in islamophobia within the United States.
...lim violence mentioned in class lectures include a taxi cab driver in NYC who identified himself as a Muslim and was shot dead by the passenger, four pieces of construction equipment was destroyed at a future mosque site in Tennessee also in Tennessee, a pipe bomb went off in a mosque in Jacksonville killing somewhere around 60 people. This is only a few example of the many hate crimes committed against Muslims in the United States. Muslims not only face hate crimes in the U.S., but all over the world today which is particularly disturbing in the U.S. which has a Constitution that states all citizens are free to practice their own religion, but clearly as of late, this is not true for Muslim Americans.
Religion is big here in the states and is one of the things that this country was founded on. Views on good and evil here while may not be extreme, are very looked down on publicly varying on many factors such as location, and factors such as race. One religion I have noticed that is practiced around me that I do not practice is Islam. Here in America it is easy to stigmatize those that practice the Islamic faith just because in the past terroristic behavior and political violence (Fine, 2015). To be fair, every religion has in some way been associated to some type of terroristic behavior, and just because one practices that certain religion does not mean that the whole religion itself should be scrutinized for those actions alone.
“Even without incidents of violence, mass media stroke fears of terrorism by reporting hugely inflated estimates of alleged threats” (Kurzman 15). This also relates to the United States and how they used film and media to put fear into the community during World War II. CNN’s senior media correspondent Brian Stelter covered this topic on a debate segment of -Red News Blue News titled “Does the Media Promote Islamophobia”. Stelter begins the segment by touching on how Islam is manifested in the media to cause exaggerated fear and hostility toward Muslims, perpetuated by negative stereotypes. He gives different examples of this. For instance, Tom Shillue (stand-up comedian) stating on Fox’s The Five that if there is a moderate Muslim voice “out there” now is the time to speak up and Sean Hannity calling a “Jihad rising worldwide”. This not only shows how one with no credentials can input their outlandish views on a national platform, but also displays an exaggeration of the problem being discussed. Later in the segment, guest co-host Brigitte Gabriel is introduced to soon give a false statistic that 25% of all Muslims are radicalized, once more proving the buffoonery being fed by present day