Immigration Discrimination
On September 11th, America experienced something they never thought was possible. America faced the biggest terrorist attack on home soil when four airplanes were hijacked and crashed into one of New York's most crowded areas, and the United States' defense base. These locations include both the World Trade Center buildings and the Pentagon. The men in charge of this operation were part of the Al-Qaeda group and were of Middle Eastern origin. In the aftermath of the September 11th terrorist attacks, Muslim and Arab communities have experienced incidents of strife at the hands of the US government and private citizens as well as from other countries across the world such as France and Australia. The people of the Islamic faith are senselessly harassed on a day to day basis. When traveling, they are given a hard time and interrogated unnecessarily and given a hard time when issuing visas. Due to all this mistreatment, families and the lives of these people are shattered and put in a state of disorder. Also as response to this, Muslims too are beginning act negatively and are beginning to give non-Muslims a taste of the treatment they have experienced. Personally, I do not think that Muslims should go through the discrimination that
I do not think that the United States is taking the right approach to handling the situation. They live a life of fear and embarrassment because they have to take the blame for some one else's actions. The French on the other hand do anything but and their stand is: worship as you will but keep it out of public places (Lawday, pg 28). The Islamic community today has gone through things done by both the government and private citizens such as arrest, detention, deportation, murders, arson, vandalism, verbal assaults and telephone threats. Personally, I feel that every one should wear what they choose, regardless of religion or preference. I do not think that any of this is right nor is it fair and no one should go through living a life with such cruelty. Initially, Justice Department officials had said that the majority of those detained were held because the INS could not process unexpectedly large numbers or registrants quickly enough. Along with the detaining process, civilians have decided to take matters in to their own hands. Another country where discrimination and harassment was quite severe was Australia. Just because the hijackers swear in the name of Allah does not make them Muslims resulting in the creation of the stereotype that Muslims are terrorists. The French want to go so far as to create a law that would ban the headscarf once and for all from schools. In the Oklahoma bombing several years, the criminal was a Caucasian American and also the recent sniper who killed people was also a non-Muslim thus proving that Muslims should not be picked out of the crowd and be mistreated due to primary and unchangeable characteristics like race, ethnicity and national origin. These attacks are assumed to be a result of the incident on September 11, which is ironic because at the time of the attacks, the American Muslim and Arab-American organizations and leaders were amongst the first to react in an organized fashion to condemn the terrorist attacks on that very same day. Being a settle refugee is the only option not taken by a terrorist as means of entry into the United States, but yet the number of people applying for that status has dropped.
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