“The Terrorist Outlaw,” William McGurn argues that “terrorism is irredeemably evil.” Implicit in this claim is the belief that acts of terrorism are never justified.…
Fyodor Dostoevsky’s quote, “…fear is simply the consequence of every lie”, illustrates a feeling one gets when one is untruthful. When one lies, fear fully takes them over because they are unsure of what the outcome will be of their lie. They will be filled with fear and anxiety waiting to see how their action of being untruthful affects their environment and their life. From my experience of literature, I can comfortably agree with this idea. People who lie will experience some form of regret and develop anxiety from the fear that builds up. Many different novels illustrate this idea, including To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee and Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare.…
Neo-conservatives like Rumsfeld (2002) have argued that ultimately, the ideology of mindless hatred that motivates Muslims to blow up innocent people on buses and trains and fly airliners into buildings full of innocent people in the name of “justice” must be repeatedly denounced by every Western government and must be relentlessly discredited through whatever methods necessary. They believe that people who take part in or support such atrocities, or contend that they are legitimate and that their perpetrators are heroic defenders of Islam do not deserve to have their “grievances” addressed by the civilized…
The worst thing one has to fear is fear itself. In Arthur Miller’s play, fear infiltrates the everyday lives of the people of Salem by disturbing many citizens and causing some of them to resort to lies and dishonesty to deflect criticism of their character. In Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, fear changes a girl’s true nature and power thirsty men begin to crumble at the thought of losing their influence and position in Salem.…
Just as we formerly pointed out that "hatred and violence have no sanction in our religious and political traditions," we also point out that such actions as incite to hatred and violence, however technically peaceful those actions may be, have not contributed to the resolution of our local problems. We do not believe that these days of new hope are days when extreme measures are justified in…
Today against humanity is a super- rational system of economic classification and prioritization; that are the global markets and their laws. The average man is convinced that he can not deviate from this determinism nor to claim control or mitigate their will, because they are omnipotent, as measurements and statistics show and the economists agree.…
Many American Muslims have come to complain of “random screenings” that seem to only target either Muslims or Sikhs, who are commonly mistaken for Muslims. What is found ironic is that through Al-Qaeda’s actions, numerous Islamic ideals and laws were completely violated. Despite this commonly known fact, American Muslims who also oppose Al-Qaeda are persecuted on a daily basis, all due to one characteristic both groups share: culture. When the general populus perspective is taken into account, Islam is held to be the most negatively viewed religion, with 31% of all American citizens holding Islam to be “not favorable at all”. Only 9% of the American people consider Islam to be “very favorable” (Gallup). When Islam is relatively compared to two other major and universal religions such as Christianity and Buddhism, statistic polls report that those who opted to complete the survey held about twice as many prejudiced feelings towards Islamics as opposed to members belonging to the other two religions…
Pipes, Daniel. Militant Islam Reaches America. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2002. Print.…
Nowadays the hate is no longer on Jews but instead attention is now on Muslims. The anger is not just in the Middle East but it is in front of society’s own eyes. Since the terrorist attacks that occurred September 11th, more Americans have become associated with Islamophobia and racism towards those who are apart of the culture. In a “Huffington Post Blog” eighteen year-old, Ayesha Durrani, spoke about her first time she was verbally abused simply because of what she looked like. As Durrani recalled in her text, the group of men behind her shouted the words “Isis!” repeatedly. It is much more than verbal attacks; some have even gone as far as to personally targeting innocent Muslims. In February of 2015, the “Quba Islamic Institute” was set into flames by a 56 year old man. According to the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the man stated that he “hated Muslims, they got what they deserved, and things happen for a reason.” How will society learn from its past if people are still living in fear of things they don’t…
M-103 is a significant attempt at addressing Islamophobia and decreasing the crime and abuse caused by it. “While the Muslim population grows, acceptance has wavered. A 2013 poll found that more than half (54 per cent) of Canadians viewed Islam ‘unfavourably.’ A 2016 poll also found that 54 per cent of Canadians held an unfavourable opinion of Muslims. Hate crimes against Muslim-Canadians more than doubled over a three-year span, statistics revealed last year.” (Kohut, 2017) Surprisingly, the total number of hate crimes are decreasing but the number of hate crimes against Muslims appears to be increasing continuously. The biggest misconception that leads to hate is that Islam promotes terrorism. The media plays a big role in projecting Muslims as a promoter of terrorism, which leads to intimidation of the whole group. Shortly after the passing of M-103, a Facebook group containing over fourty thousand members known as La Meute planned to protest the motion because they do not support Islam and believe that M-103 is an unacceptable favour for Muslims. However, M-103 will not affect them in any way as it is not a law. Conducting a study on rising Islamophobia may help solve misconceptions about Muslims and m-103 and will indicate that discrimination is intolerable and not welcome in Canada. M-103 states that “The latter would require the heritage committee to collect data on hate crime…
In the 21st century, the majority of people have started raising questions about Islam whether it condones or promotes violence against the innocent people or people who are not following this religion. There are so many debates going on about this issue in all over the world recently because people are trying to figure out if it is true and some people are trying to show that Islam never brings any trouble with itself to human’s life or prove that no actually Islam doesn’t even have any relationship with violence. Unfortunately, Islam has been associated with violence and aggression so many times as the terrorist groups which are unconsidered as an Islamic organization have killed or attempted on lots of innocent people so far. To be honest, most of the terrorist groups either in middle east or Africa are somehow related to Islam and that has been the biggest factor enables people to think about Islam in that way. In contrast with these conceptions which are not true and accurate, there will be three logical and coherent reasons in this essay explaining why Islam has nothing to do with violence or aggression. The first one is that religions do not affect people in bad ways which will make them turn into a violent person spreading aggression to the people in society and secondly the main purpose of Islam has always been to promote peace and justice in human’s life and lastly being violent depends on the people, if she or he is violent then she or he promotes violence, not their religion.…
When it comes to control, fear, in most cases, is the best mechanism. In order to avoid fear, someone will more willingly do what is asked of them, than do what is considered wrong. Fear is often used as a form of punishment in order to achieve outstanding control. It is used so diversely because it has such an effective outcome. Think about it, everyone is scared of something aren’t they. Individuals use this method as a way of reducing the masses into confined boundaries and strict regimes. A perfect example of this can be plucked from the novel ‘1984’ where a small torturous room named 101 was used to achieve conformity. The ministry of love affectively used room 101 to prevent people from committing treason against the government by bringing intense fear upon a subject to force there confession. This scheme worked as it induced fear amongst the citizens as stories circulated throughout society, stating peoples worst fears were realised in that room. This tactic was very manipulative as it changed people’s minds over time, forcing them to succumb to conformity. Aaronson, Jones and Rutherford, who were counter INGSOC protagonists, were captured by the government and forced to face room 101. They were exposed to such concentrated fear through torture that eventually they surrender their minds and are brainwashed into accepting INGSOC’s way of life. After their release, society saw them reduced to nothing which then caused a larger spread of fear as they didn’t want to go through the same pain. So with the right technique, fear can be used to keep people inline and allow individuals to easily control large groups without using physical force.…
The Gift of Fear," a psychology book by Gavin De Becker, is a great valuable book. It gives significant exhortation about acceptable behavior upon human instinct, how to perceive dangers, and characterizes what genuine trepidation is and its motivation. I find this book to be very interesting. This book gave feeling of comprehension on savagery and trepidation and I feel greatly improved arranged with regards to perceiving perilous circumstances. My favorite part of the book was the warning signs to know when an outsider is a potential risk. This was intriguing to me since I've been told since I was only a young girl to be careful with outsiders. Be that as it may, with every one of these notices about outsiders I had never been advised how to perceive when an outsider was by and large really accommodating and agreeable, or attempting to mischief me in any capacity. I found that some of the warning signs were interesting, for example, a strategy called Forced Teaming.…
In the United States, there is approximately 25,000 hard-core Americans believing in the ideology behind white supremacy, which when considering this number, is a small fraction of the white population. These white supremacist activists are organized into approximately 300 different organizations to further their belief in white supremacy. In breaking these groups down, no two groups are the same, and range from religious sects, tax protesters, militant style, and the extreme violent groups such as the Neo-Nazi skinheads. Today’s society produces approximately 150,000 to 200,000 believers in white supremacy that subscribe to a variety of racist publications, attend white supremacy rallies and marches, and further donate money for their belief.…
Hate crimes against Muslims have increased dramatically since 2001. Statistics say that hate crimes against Muslims went up 90% immediately after 9/11. These hate crimes played a very significant role in making Middle Eastern people in the United States feel unwelcome, especially in southern states. Immigration decreased, mostly because the American government wants to keep it’s people safe, and “prevent any avenue from being used by terrorists to infiltrate the United States.” (Dewey…