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Discrimination Against Muslims
We live in a very troubled world. If today's problems and their sources are misunderstood because of misinformation about the past, solutions for the future will be misdirected and therefore ineffective. It is only recently in this information age that researchers had the opportunity and courage to expose and lift the veil from past events revealing the truth behind them. Only recently we have realized that our previous information, which directed our actions and inspired our values were very often inaccurate, distorted and sometimes manipulated. Furthermore it seems to have misrepresented everyone; the powerless and the powerful, the occupier and the occupied, the race and the racist. However, most of us have had neither the time nor the opportunity to ponder the effects of releasing our former assumptions and accepting our new awareness. And yet curiosity about the past abounds, as does the desire to understand the connection between past, the present, and the future. Discrimination, Prejudice and racism have usually been considered an ahistorical, unchanging social condition always presupposing claims about biological and inherent superiority or ability. It is actually a form of dominance in terms of power abuse, or self-interested control over and as a limitation of access to socially valued resources, for instance residence, citizenship, housing, jobs, wealth, education and respect. [Sukhvinder, 2002].
Thesis
After the September 11th incidents, discrimination against Muslims has nearly tripled Muslims are being discriminated in all spheres of life, whether it be economic, social or educational. The discrimination...
The media has a portrayed a false image of Muslims and Islam, Hollywood has vilified Muslims and nonsensical information about Islam and Muslims in schools and colleges has not helped the situation.
Discussion
In a recent report issued by the Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) there has been a growing hatred against Muslims in U.S. after September 11. The report details more than 2000 incidents experiences of anti-Muslim stereotyping, discrimination, harassment and violence. The report says that there has been a 60% increase in discrimination cases. The most common discrimination against Muslims includes associating the religion of Islam to terrorism, termination of Muslims employees who wished to wear a head-scarf, Muslims men denied their rights to grow beard and pray at workplace, verbal and physical assaults directed against Muslims of Arab descendants and discrimination in schools and colleges [CAIR, 2002].
Currently in the U.S. Muslims comprise of almost seven million of the total 270 million population. Eighty percent of the incidents in the United States took place in 15 states where the Muslim population is concentrated. In these states the complaints of workplace discrimination have tripled in six months. The head of federal Equal Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has received 366 discrimination complaints by Muslims for harassment and wrongful termination. The chairwoman of EEOC said in an interview that these complaints are growing and also expressed her concerns that harassment violations against Muslims, Arab-Americans and others of Middle Eastern or South Asian heritage might be vastly underreported. She said that the discrimination is because of inaccurate information about Islam [Kinsman, 2002].
Edward Said in his challenging and stimulating book "Covering Islam" has written…
Sources:
Kinsman, Michael. "Agency Sees Rise in Workplace-Bias Complaints by Muslims since Sept. 11" The San Diego Union-Tribune 2002.
CAIR, Council on American-Islamic Relations "Report: American Muslims one year after 9/11," Washington, D.C. 9/2/2002 available at http://www.cair-net.org/asp/article.asp?articleid=910&articletype=3
Said, Edward W. "Covering Islam: How the Media and the Experts Determine How We See the Rest of the World," Vintage Books 2000.
Stubbs, Sukhvinder. The Hooded Hordes Of Prejudice: To Typecast all Muslims as Fanatical Militants Is Unfair And Offensive. (Discrimination against Muslims), New Statesman Issue: Feb 28, 2000.
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