Essay On Hate Crime And Discrimination

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Hate Crime and Discrimination Against Arab Americans and Muslim

There are many forms of hate crimes that brought attention in the United States and increased throughout 2014. Examples of hate crimes are assault on homeless people, crime on colleges’ campus, crimes on immigrants, hate crimes on Arab American, Muslim, and Asian Pacific American. Also, there are hate crimes on children and hate groups such as civil rights leaders or gay couples. There is diversity, hate crime, which is more alike than unalike. Another kind is bullying which is to use force or to abuse or treat other people and treat them aggressively. Harassment is another kind of hate crime that is common everywhere. Harassment usually found in the workplace, which involve unwanted sexual advances.

This paper focuses on hate crime and discrimination against Arab Americans and Muslim. After 9/11 incidents, “hate crime and discrimination against Arab American have decreased, but the number of violent crimes against Arab Americans remains higher than before 9/11.” These days we see discrimination against Arab and Muslims and all that comes with assault, murder, rape, harassment, or verbal abuse. What does a hate crime mean in all these different worlds? Hate crime is a criminal act against victims and it’s usually violent act, which depends on his or her prejudice membership in a social group.

Most of crimes that we see these days depend on how a person deals with another member in society. Is the person done something that could insult the other party member? There are many examples of hate crime against Arab American, Muslim, or Sikhs that happened in the United States. On October 2008, at 10 years old Sikh boy was assaulted while walking home from school ...

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Brooks, M. (n.d.). The history of hate crimes in the United States - by Marcus Brooks - Helium. Retrieved May 27, 2014, from http://www.helium.com/items/1179975-hate-crimes- emmett-till-medgar-evers-dorseys-and-malcolm

Violent Crime. (2013, June 20). Retrieved from http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in- the-u.s/2012/crime-in-the-u.s.-2012/violent-crime/violent-crime

ADC RELEASES REPORT ON HATE CRIMES AND DISCRIMINATION AGAINST ARAB AMERICANS - American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.adc.org/index.php?id=3388
A Report on the Civil Rights Division’s Post - 9/11 Civil Rights Summit (pp. 1-19, Rep.). (n.d.). Retrieved May 27, 2014, from http://www.justice.gov/crt/publications/post911/post911summit_report_2012-04.pdf

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