Everything Isn T Racial Profiling By Linda Chavez

As a result of the September 11 attacks on the United States in 2001 the use of racial profiles and enforcement of stricter security at airlines and borderlines was increased in order to prevent a similar event from happening. This in turn has created more conflict because false suspicions and assumptions made in profiles and foreign policies have caused people to feel humiliated by and angered at the United States. The use of racial profiling has increased ever since the attacks on 9/11. Linda Chavez, a Latina author, recalls her experiences of being questioned by security and suspected of being a terrorist because of her resemblance to Middle Eastern descent in Everything Isn’t Racial Profiling. She describes herself as being humiliated
Khairuldeen Makhzoomi, a UC Berkeley student, was removed from a plane ride for speaking Arabic while speaking on the phone on April 14, 2016 (Wang 1). He thinks that he was falsely reported by another passenger and states that these types of actions make Americans feel even more terrorized by Muslims and lead to more conflict with the Islamic State (Wang 1). Two days later, a Maryland woman was also kicked out of an airflight for no apparent reason and believes it was because she was wearing a hijab (Pitts 1). Because of this a Muslim advocacy organization has taken action against the Southwest Airlines for making false assumptions of Muslim Americans (Pitts 1). Following the 9/11 attacks airlines began to check passengers more thoroughly, especially those who are of foreign descent, even though they make passengers feel they are being treated
Many Middle Easterners view the United States as a threat to them and disagree with the way Americans have responded to the terrorist attacks (Spurlock 1). They argue that they are falsely accused of being terrorists and some create more violence in order to keep Americans out of their countries’ affairs. For example, Morgan Spurlock, a documentary filmmaker, went around the Middle East searching for Osama and was treated hostile by many Jewish people who felt they were being treated unfairly (Spurlock 1). Differences in cultures have led countries to make false accusations of each other and create more conflict than they had before like the West and Islam being unable to resolve their differences because of their mixed responses to 9/11 (Said 665). Edward Said argues that viewing each other as opposable leads to societies waging war on each other in Clashing Civilizations. Because of the 9/11 attacks there has been an increase in conflict among the West and Middle