Negative And Anti-Muslim Views
Negative and anti-Muslim views are often based on appearance and other observations, assumption, and stereotypes.
Negative & anti-Muslim views are often based on appearance and other observations.According to the article titled "Ethnic and Religious Profiling Violates Civil Liberties," “Azhar Usman, a burly American-born Muslim with a heavy black beard, says that he elicits an almost universal reaction when he boards an airplane at any United States airport: conversations stop in mid-sentence and the look in the eyes of his fellow passengers says, "We're all going to die!" (Lee). Because Usman is a big burly Muslim with a large beard, people grow uncomfortable with his presence on a plane, even though Usman is a fellow American.his appearance …show more content…
Zakariya Muhammad Reed, a vet who served for 20 years in the national guard and later when on to serve as a firefighter for 12 years, was apprehended four times in six months on the Canada-US border when he and family were traveling back home after he visited his in-laws in Ontario, Canada.("Arab Muslims Should Not Be Profiled in the War on Terror.")The police who detained Reed assume that he was a threat based on this name.It couldn't have been because he had broken the law.The best way to sum it up is in his words “My entire life has revolved around the service of American citizens and suddenly I am being treated like a criminal because there 'is a problem with my name,' to quote one of the border officers.”“Racial profiling at US airports has intensified after 9/11. On a flight, air marshals and airline crews can force a passenger to leave a plane, or even arrest him/her merely because a fellow passenger or airline personnel feels uncomfortable with his/her presence on the plane.”(“Duvvuru”).it isn't just to throw a person off a flight, that they paid for, without evidence that they intend to cause harm to the other passengers of the
Negative & anti-Muslim views are often based on appearance and other observations.According to the article titled "Ethnic and Religious Profiling Violates Civil Liberties," “Azhar Usman, a burly American-born Muslim with a heavy black beard, says that he elicits an almost universal reaction when he boards an airplane at any United States airport: conversations stop in mid-sentence and the look in the eyes of his fellow passengers says, "We're all going to die!" (Lee). Because Usman is a big burly Muslim with a large beard, people grow uncomfortable with his presence on a plane, even though Usman is a fellow American.his appearance …show more content…
Zakariya Muhammad Reed, a vet who served for 20 years in the national guard and later when on to serve as a firefighter for 12 years, was apprehended four times in six months on the Canada-US border when he and family were traveling back home after he visited his in-laws in Ontario, Canada.("Arab Muslims Should Not Be Profiled in the War on Terror.")The police who detained Reed assume that he was a threat based on this name.It couldn't have been because he had broken the law.The best way to sum it up is in his words “My entire life has revolved around the service of American citizens and suddenly I am being treated like a criminal because there 'is a problem with my name,' to quote one of the border officers.”“Racial profiling at US airports has intensified after 9/11. On a flight, air marshals and airline crews can force a passenger to leave a plane, or even arrest him/her merely because a fellow passenger or airline personnel feels uncomfortable with his/her presence on the plane.”(“Duvvuru”).it isn't just to throw a person off a flight, that they paid for, without evidence that they intend to cause harm to the other passengers of the