Catholic Discrimination In The Early 20th Century

The diversity between Americans has always been evident, and not just by the skin tone or religion, but also by their backgrounds, as well as how their lives are like today. Especially in African Americans and those who wanted to change the ways of religion, and the prejudice against them continues to stick, even today.

The Irish were considered White in 19th century America, but they were considered inferior to the native born Americans. In Document A. the cartoon showed the Irish being labeled as white, but were equal to blacks. So the Irish and blacks were distinguished as having an equal social status. So they were both victims of racism. Then in Document B. it was said “Things which Roman Catholics priests and all true Roman Catholics hate”. All Irish were Roman Catholics, and in the 19th century all Roman Catholics were white. Showing that once again the Irish were white but were discriminated because of their religion. Their religion was discriminated against because it wasn’t the same as the native born American’s. The native born Americans were Protestants.

The prejudice experienced by Catholic Americans can be traced as far back as the sixteenth century. Roman Catholicism was the dominating religion throughout most of Europe and the Catholic Church held great wealth, social, and political standing. The loyalty of the people to Rome and the Papacy at that time seemed to be unyielding until an Augustinian friar, named Martin Luther, rejected some of the teachings of the Roman Catholic Church and began to spread his own message of God’s will in the form of Lutheranism. Luther believed the Holy Roman Catholic Empire was corrupted

Discrimination. It’s all over the world in the modern era we live in. I’m going to use the Christian belief system as a comparison to the Jews during the Holocaust. In today’s time, persecution of the Christians is a large number. If you scroll back in history to the 1940’s, the Jewish persecution was even worse…..

In Joel Spring’s book, Deculturalization and the Struggle for Equality (2016) he explains the many discrimination actions towards different cultures. The first chapter in the book talks about the superiority of the Anglo-American. These Europeans that came to America saw the world in four different ways, between Protestants and Catholics and then the civilized and uncivilized. During this time, Protestants were considered superior to Catholics, “political freedom was only intended for protestants. Virginia banned Catholics from public offices in the 1640s; Massachusetts expelled Catholic priests in 1647; and after 1689 New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Maryland refused to grant citizenship to immigrant Catholics,” (Spring, 2016, p. 6).

Anti-Catholic prejudice was alive and even rejuvenated in some quarters in the twentieth century. Protestant "fundamentalists" and other new Christian denominations revived anti-Catholicism as part of an insistence on "original," pre-Rome Christianity.

Society in the United States has changed the way discrimination is from the 1800’s to the 2000’s and is a big impact to people all around the country. Many African-Americans have been discriminated for a long period of time and now, many athletes are taking a stand to show its physically and morally wrong and occurs in past history, sports, and even the police force. Discrimination is is immoral tell this day and is still a horrifying act.

The clashing of arms and fists are never a way to save yourself, it causes danger for someone else, with discrimination being a large role in the 1920s, it caused blacks and whites to have a new uproar of segregation ,and making the 1920s an even darker time. In the 1920s, racism was a major crime that thrived on throughout many areas, even though people thought it had subdued, it really never went away. With the riots ,and clans ,and unfair worthiness to citizens , many citizens of different races lost their lives because of it. The screeching and torture of citizens crying out for help was a dramatic time for people of opposing races.

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.

From January 30, 1933, to May 8, 1945, there were over eleven million people murdered. Almost half were Jewish, and the remaining were African-Americans, homosexuals, disabled, Roma Gypsies, and Protestants. Although this is not well-known, Catholics were persecuted along with the listed. In the Holocaust, Catholics helped save Jews, were targeted, and killed by the Nazis. There are many reasons why Catholics were persecuted.

The Spanish Inquisition is a prime example of Catholic intolerance. Established by King Ferdinand II and Queen Isabella, this inquisition was established so Catholic religion would be able to keep their Catholic kingdoms and maintain religious unity. Using this as almost a police force, it was a scare tactic to keep everyone in check, possibly even the King and Queen. There were many crimes, religious or not, that could get the people of this time punished for their wrongdoings. These crimes including blasphemy, being accused of witchcraft, adultery, and more could end you up on trial.

When dealing with groups of people it becomes very natural for groups to assume they are better than another group. The church in this case took on the role of the superior group. Their attitude, and unwelcoming attitude proved that the group felt superior. They felt inferior because they easily out numbered the two Muslim girls in the crowd, therefore, they wanted to protect there territory, and made it known those girls were not

American scholars sought to demonstrate that there was a divide between the Middle East and the west, between Muslims and Americans. It was also stressed that America was one of the leaders of western Culture and norms, while Muslims were the “others” interfering with western ways. Which is the baseline of the divide that leads to Islamophobia. These following American Historians define the binaries that separate Muslims from Americans, which adds to what they

There is discrimination everywhere at anytime, anywhere in the world. Discrimination can occur in many ways due to different opinions and perspectives. One of them occurs by religion of different people. Religious discrimination is to treat someone differently with others in a bad way due to their religion or beliefs.There are lots of religious discrimination around the world. People should be against religious discrimination because it keeps people from harassment on their religious beliefs, prevent less wars happening, and people will correct their stereotypes on others.

This survey reveals that the problem with the Islam faith is not racial: The Muslim people are welcomed, the Islam faith is not. The violence that has been perpetrated against America, whether executed or planned, has brought to fruition religious persecution not seen since the persecution of the Jews in W.W.II. This “trust no Arab” attitude has brought shame to the Constitutional intentions of freedom of religion intended by our forefathers, and has set religious tolerance back 200 years. Looking at media representation of Muslim Americans prior to 9-11, it shows religious diversity in America, depicting Muslim America as just another religious community seeking to advance and protect their interests, not unlike other Americans. After 9-11 the media portrayed representations of threat and fear, creating boundaries between Muslims and other Americans. Such depiction transforms the identity of Muslims and American religious pluralism (Byng, M. pg. 3).