The Muslim Ban President Donald Trump’s executive order banning the entry of nationals of seven Muslim-majority states sparked a broad range of reaction across the world. The ban was later successfully challenged in the court to allow an admission of the citizens of the targeted countries who had acquired legal entry into the United States. This paper focuses on the analysis of three articles on the Muslim ban. Interpretation of the Articles The article “Trump's Muslim Ban Pours Fuel on the Fire of the 'Clash of Civilizations’” by Laipson discusses President Trump’s executive order banning the entry of travelers, refugees, and immigrants from the seven Muslim states. The move by the president undermines key fundamental tenets of American democracy …show more content…
The non-accommodative aspect of the Americans can be blamed for the radicalization of the Muslims against the Americans. In the end, those at whom the hatred is directed reciprocate it as evidenced by the Iraqi and Iranian government moves to ban the U.S.A. citizens from entering their territories (Laipson 2-3). Consequently, they did this in reaction to the executive order. Obviously, the American civilization does not seem ready to accommodate new cultural and religious practices despite the globalization of the world and inter-cultural interaction. The author’s line of argument is that the Americans need to adopt an accommodative approach towards the Muslims as a way of dealing with radicalization …show more content…
The exploitation of terrorism as a justification for the ban does not take into account the factor that most of the terrorist attacks are carried out by persons who trace their origin to Saudi Arabia and Egypt. The targeted countries are not major suppliers of terrorists. Moreover, the ban gives preference to the Christian refugees from the Middle East rather than Muslims (Rothwell and Krol 1-2). Consequently, this treatment amounts to religious discrimination, which goes against the spirit of the U.S. Constitution. In addition, in the Middle East, Muslims also hate Christians more, thus exacerbating religious hatred. As a result, the 12,486 Syrian refugees that the U.S.A. had accepted to take in 2016 will not be allowed into the U.S. (Rothwell & Krol 2-3). They will have to find accommodation elsewhere or continue suffering in
The face of American democracy is deceptive; from missionary trips to military tours, America has established a presence in the Middle East, and has always projected itself to be the perfect image of a democratic and free nation where everyone is equal. While America tries to up hold their motto of being the land of the free, American media has presented Arabs as unintelligent and violent people. Because of the way America presents itself to the rest of the world, one would be surprised if they traveled to America only to find violence and ignorance amongst its government and citizens. While Western civilization believes itself to be on a higher level than Eastern civilization, this orientalist view blinds America from seeing the similarities
On September 11, 2001, since the terrorist attacks, many American Muslims have been stereotyped negatively in the United States. Salma, a Muslim woman, says that the way Muslims have been recognized in the media has played a big role in the antagonism directed at her. “I don’t know how many times I heard my classmates accuse me of being al-Qaeda or a terrorist” (Mayton 2013). Salma, along with other Muslims, even after a decade, are still struggling with trying to find their “American” and “Islamic” identities, while facing verbal attacks for their ethnicity. Too often, the general Muslim population gets lumped in with the immoral acts of a few because of the lack of knowledge about their culture.
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
For a second, the U.S. stood still. Looking up at the towers, one can only imagine the calm before the storm in the moment when thousands of pounds of steel went hurdling into its once smooth, glassy frame. People ran around screaming and rubble fell as the massive metal structure folded in on itself like an accordion. Wounded and limping from the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center, America carried on, not without anger and fear against a group of innocent Americans, Muslim Americans. Nietzsche’s error of imaginary cause is present in the treatment of Muslim Americans since 9/11 through prejudice in the media, disregard of Muslim civil liberties, racial profiling, violence, disrespect, and the lack of truthful public information about Islam. In this case, the imaginary cause against Muslims is terrorism. The wound has healed in the heart of the U.S. but the aching throb of terrorism continues to distress citizens every day.
Clashes between Christianity and Islam have taken place since Islam’s inception. The most recent clash is the one happening now between Western Europeans and the Muslim immigrants who began arriving in the 1960s and now make up 4 to 5% of the total population. Islam is regarded as the fastest growing religion in Europe, through the immigrations and high birth rates causing to a rapid increase in Muslim population in Europe, which will make Islam be the domineering power in the future. The recent research indicates that there are more than 53 million Muslim in Europe, 14 million of them in the European union. According to the German evangelical news agency IDEA, the number of Muslims in Europe has risen by 800.000 over the last two years (Polzer). On the other hand, the birth rates in Europeans are decreasing. Pipes states that original Europeans become extinct because in order to sustain the population in Europe each woman should bear 2.1 children. The overall rate is only 1.5 that is also falling in the European Union (262). Today Europeans still have the upper hand, and therefore many of them continue to believe that multiculturalism and their immigration policy will eventually produce an integrated society in spite of the social unrest in Europe resulting from integration problems of Muslim immigrants. These Europeans insist that dialogue will solve all problems; in that sense they suffer from what Ayaan Hirsi Ali calls the “fanaticism of reason” (78), and they tend to fall into the appeasement camp. Muslim strategists such as Yusuf Al Qaradawi recognize that Islamists can achieve a great deal by pretending to cooperate with reasonable Europeans (Vidino 38), and that his organization, the Muslim Brotherhood, can take advantage...
Consequently, it is no surprise that the most powerful media sources are spewing out pieces of hateful rhetoric that result in the “othering” of Muslims in the U.S. With the increase of Islamophobia and American nationalism. are currently driving hate crimes and institutional discrimination, human fear and emotion are becoming twisted and utilized as weapons in of its
Lewis, B. (September 1990) The Roots of Muslim Rage: Why So Many Muslims Deeply Resent The West, and why Their Bitterness Will Not Be Easily Mollified. The Atlantic v.266, pp.47(11).
This misguided executive order threatens our world standing, drives away talent and is discriminatory. The ban goes so far as to discriminate by religion affording Christian refugees preference over Muslim refugees. The ban clearly violates the first amendment of the United States Constitution guaranteeing freedom of religion. Christians all over the U.S. have denounced this discriminatory preference. Trump’s Muslim ban also threatens financial markets, the value of the dollar and undermines globalization. It restricts intellectual capital preventing leading technologists, researchers, engineers, academicians and others from entering into the U.S. and has been roundly rebuked by leaders from the Silicon Valley. The blaring reality is that Trump’s Muslim ban targets seven countries--whose citizens were not involved in 9/11. The Global Terrorism Database of the University of Maryland’s National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism found that no American has been killed in a terrorist attack in the United States by a national of the seven banned countries. Yet Trump’s ban used 9/11 as the basis for its enactment, while simultaneously causing a seismic shift in US counter-terrorism tactics. This could pose a real danger for the US with extremist groups now using Trump’s actions as a tool to recruit. The Muslim ban is a clear and present threat to our national
Islam in America has historically been misunderstood, and this is due to the misconception of culture and religion as well as lack of education and incorrect portrayal in the media, which gives a skewed idea of Islam. Especially in the United States, Islam has been seen as the “terrorist religion” or a religion for the extremists and a religion in which freedom is not an option. Among the countless misconceptions, the basis of stereotypes by Americans is due to the mix up between religion and culture. Furthermore, the media only fuels fire to these misunderstandings and lack of factual information about Islam causing Americans to lash out on American Muslims without reason.
... of talking to and working with each other, of talking and working with the non-Muslim world. We must go into the world in all of its dimensions, all of its every multiplying spaces and experiences and find within them a vehicle that would allow those ideas and values that we cherish to take root. There are no formulas here, no pre-mapped practices to specify how such experimentation at interchange should be conducted. Although steeped in a very particular "American history", much can be learned from the experiences of Black Americans and the generosity of spirit which has often characterized everyday relationships between Muslims and Christians. Whatever steps we as Muslims take, we should have sufficient faith in the power of our faith to know that we will persist through this and all things. We should know that it is within our capacity to bring America to Islam.
In both given articles, “The Roots of Muslim Rage” by Bernard Lewis, and “The Roots of Muslim Rage Revisited” by Nicolaas J.E. van der Zee, argue about the enhancement of the Muslim fundamentalism with different perspectives; however, I believe that Lewis’ view may be quiet misleading to the actual perception. Lewis indicates that Muslim fundamentalism is conceived through the Muslim community’s oppression and dissatisfaction with the West’s political involvement, as well as “Islam is a source of aggression” . In defiance of Lewis’ opinion, the word ‘Islam’ comes from the word peace as well as the will of submission to God. The notion of aggression and violence that Lewis conceptualizes to be the headline of Islam does not have any supporting
Another casual night: the air is sticky, and the water is scarce, all throughout the country, the sound of gunshots ringing through the air. For most people, this “casual” night is beyond their wildest imagination, but for Syrians, it is an ongoing nightmare. Faced with the trauma of a civil war, Syrian refugees seek protection and a more promising future than the life they currently live in their oppressive country. Many seek refuge in other Middle East countries like Turkey and Jordan, but others search for hope in the icon of freedom, the United States of America. However, in America, there is an ongoing debate about whether or not Syrian refugees should be accepted.
He also used the key points to explain how Islamic fundamentalism influence Middle Eastern countries political policies and social behavior (Zakaria 6). Zakaria stated that introduction of Islamic fundamentalism along with anti-westernization ideology is the reason that “they hate us”. He used the example of leaders like Nasser and terrorist groups lead by Osama Bin Laden to explain the root of Islamic citizens’ ideas of America (Zakaria
In other words, radicals exist on the fringes of every religion. Therefore, this paper will stick to the confines of Islamic Radicalization.
Extremist terrorist groups like ISIS, have risen up and caused a wave of fear and mistrust over the world. Desperately trying to escape their war-torn country, Syrian people try to cross the dangerous Mediterranean Sea, in hope to reach safety. A recently, it had been reported that over 500 Syrian refugees have died trying to cross the sea. Countries were lending aid to the Syrian refugees such as the UN, Turkey, and the United States. Everything changed after the Paris Terrorist Attack in 2015. It became known that some terrorists were disguising themselves as refugees in order to gain access to the country. The United States panicked about its refugee policies, fearing domestic safety. However, the Syrian Refugee issue is in fact a crisis. By February 2016, the U.S had resettled 2,819 Syrians, which has risen from 90 admitted in 2013, in addition to 4.5 billion dollars in aid. Following the Paris tragedy, at least 27 state governors stated their refusal to accept refugees or questioned the admission process. The US State Department has confirmed that the country will accept 10,000 Syrian refugees in 2016. This was met with some backlash from modern day Restrictionists, the conservatives. While helping people who are threatened by terrorism is a moral obligation, the issue was complicated by terrorists hiding as refugees. Because of this, it sparked hysteria and xenophobia in the United States against