Muslim American College Youth Summary

In the article "Muslim American College Youth: Attitudes and Responses Five Years After 9/11.", the author Muedini starts the introduction by claiming that the ideologies of Muslims being the terrorist have caused a lot of problems to the American born Muslim youth. The author compares the Muslim youth in Europe to the ones here in America and says that the youth in Europe is a major concern for Europeans than youth in America to Americans, due to difference in social class. These Muslim youth can have two routes to follow, depending on where they are in the American society. If they are from a lower class family they have chances of being convicted for terrorist activities and if they are from middle or upper class they find themselves in
colleges where they absorb into the American environment. This absorption into the environment leads to these youth questioning their identity and going to some places to capture their cultural identity. The author goes on to tell us that there was a lot of communal unity after the US anti-terrorism policy and there had been cooperation of Muslims of different ethnic backgrounds in America. I believe that looking into the issue of these Muslim youth is very important because working on these youth will lead to next generation of Muslims being more “western” and will be following the lifestyle of American people. This article overall is very informative and a good source however, most of the ideas it has are same the ones in my other sources. If I were to rate this article out of 10, it'll be 8 because it gave me a new fact that most of the troubling Muslim parts in the west are found in places with lower class people. Other stuff like Muslims youth questioning their identities may come under the “effects of Islamophobia” part of my research.