Islamophobia Essay

After viewing the circus acts that were called the 1st presidential debate and the vice-presidential debate that aired earlier in the month, my expectations for the 2nd debate were not too high. Unfortunately my even my low expectations were not met and I felt as though there was not a large enough improvement during this debate to have made any difference from the first one. While we saw some improvement in terms of candidate behavior, the rest of the debate was severely lacking in substance. Questions

Prejudice and discrimination are two of the biggest conflicts and problems that today’s society and humanity is facing. Prejudice is defined as holding an unfavourable opinion or attitude towards a specific social group and its members. When one social group hates another group of people so significantly that they can torture, murder and harass innocent members of society this is a serious concern. In this essay I’m going to discuss psychology’s explanations of prejudice and why these attitudes

feelings and acts toward Muslims have become so prevalent that in 1991 the Runnymede Trust Report coined a term for it. The report defined the “unfounded hostility toward Muslims, and therefore fear or dislike of all or most Muslims” as “Islamophobia” (Defining “Islamophobia”). There has always been some religious cultural conflict with Muslims in the United States, but since the 9/11 terrorist attacks, conflict has escalated significantly. There have been lots of reported incidents and

humans don’t fundamentally differ; we’re all equal. In my eyes, this book is a classic, because many of the ideas Mark Twain portrays are still consistent today. The issue of thinking for yourself is especially present in today’s society. With Islamophobia, we see people making false and biased claims about a whole group of people, while failing to do fact checks and understand information as a whole. People refuse to see these people as what they are, people. Instead they accept the claims that

Seriously, why are we so quick to judge people based on our own biased-based perspective? This is what I asked myself after reading two big news today. One was an update about the Oregon’s Community College shootout and the other was about the Peeple application that everyone was angry at. First, let’s tackle the horrifying shootout that took away 10 lives and injured 9 others. According to some reports, the killer (who I will not name so that I wouldn’t give credit to his actions) asked some of

Human rights exist to protect people from government abuse and neglect. Rights limit what a state can do and impose obligations for how a state must act. Yet today a new generation of populists is turning this protection on its head. Claiming to speak for “the people,” they treat rights as an impediment to their conception of the majority will, a needless obstacle to defending the nation from perceived threats and evils. Instead of accepting rights as protecting everyone, they privilege the declared

In Dave Eggers Zeitoun, a personal recount of hurricane katrina is told that includes chaos, loss, and the importance of family. The author uses Zeitoun’s story to implicitly tell his own personal views across to the reader. Eggers uses literary devices and rhetorical tools to do this. It's important to note in this book that these are the author’s view and that you must choose to separate them from the story or not. In my opinion, the falsity of media is the most resonating argument, The authors

Mummy. Many Arab characters in such films are treated as a “lesser” people, as they are portrayed as either evil, incompetent, sex objects, or savages. The film claims that these false depictions are what fuel American’s racism (against Arabs) and Islamophobia. I was aware of Hollywood’s racism against non-whites before, especially against Muslim people, but I had not realized to what extent or how far back it had extended.

local clergy is meeting with officials to begin a “community response to hatred.” According to Ryan McNutt the “purpose of this gathering is a compassionate public witness to support all in our community who are wounded by racism, anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, and to stand up against it” (Boston Globe, 2017).

There has been an overall increase in the tendency of fellow Americans to look at muslims through the distorted glasses of Islamophobia--a term used to define the dislike of or prejudice against Islam or Muslims. Moreover, the status quo for Muslims in America, literally questions American Muslim’s loyalty to the country. It is utterly upsetting to see how so many American Muslims