Anti Muslim Hysteria Analysis

The internment of Japanese Americans could certainly be considered as one of the lowlights of American History. With just one executive order, Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the entire country embarked on what many historians call one of the largest violations of civil liberties in the country’s history; over 120,000 Japanese Americans, many of whom were American citizens, were forced to flee from their homes and became incarcerated in concentration camps on American soil; all too often Americans forget about the gravity and lasting effects of this event and just how universal the lessons one can learn from this event are.

Now more than ever, in a time of anti-Muslim hysteria it is important to learn from and to consider especially the events