Stereotypes Of A Muslim In Today's Society

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Muslim Terrorism
Being a Muslim in today’s society is not very easy. The most common misconception about Muslims is that they are terrorists. Even though many people just say to ignore hateful words, it is hard to ignore people when they say “you are a terrorist” right in front of your face. When a person talks about the religion Islam, they cannot take the word terrorist out of their minds because that is the usual stereotype people make towards this religion now. Each global terrorism act that occur will always point their first fingers towards the Muslim community, which gives us no opportunity to prove ourselves as a good community. The religion of Islam mostly consist of peaceful people who mind their own business but because of that …show more content…

The word terrorists is usually consisted of Muslims in the minds of most Americans. The continued utilization of illogical term “Muslim terrorists” signifies how the norm of our society is still a white Christian (Singh). Religious and racial bias keep affecting the community of the United States negatively (Singh). In the wake of terrorist attacks in the 2000s, Muslims have been targeted for hate crimes by racists who found them to be convenient scapegoats for dehumanized, nonwhite "others" at whom they wanted to strike (Singh). Due to their visibility and appearance, Muslim were proportionately singled out for harassment during the hate crime epidemic. The very first attack on a Muslim took place shortly after the second plane hit the World Trade Center. Amrik Singh was looking up at the crash when he realized a small group of men across the street were yelling at him, "Take that f---ing turban off, you terrorist!" They chased him into a subway station before Singh escaped. A group of young white men attacked 60 year old Attar Singh with a nail studded baseball bat (Singh). Balbir Singh Sodhi, was the first person murdered in the post attack hate crimes (Singh). The stereotype of all Muslims are terrorists became a big problem in the 2000s; it created violence, which included injuries and killing of Muslims. These stereotypes are still going on but they have lessened more and more over time but it is still a cause for

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