What Is The Stereotype Of Hatred Toward Middle Easterners?

Have you ever wondered what Muslims and Jewish people have in common? In a short clip showing a Muslim and Jewish girl, Amina Iro and Hannah Halpern, spoke out against stereotypes they face and told the world how they shouldn’t be judged for who they are. This video had a positive impact on me because of the girls’ confidence, the examples and problems they face as being Muslim or Jewish, and the message the girls were saying.

Due to the Anti-Muslim sentiments rising around the United States, many American Muslims have been killed, or severely wounded in hate crimes. Asma Jama, a Muslim woman, was having dinner with her family in an Applebee's restaurant as she was approached by a woman who was upset over the fact that Asma was not speaking English. The situation escalated, and “As Jama waited for her pasta Alfredo, a woman at a nearby booth smashed a beer mug in her face” (Ibrahim). Asma was left heartbroken and confused as blood poured out of the deep cuts on her lip. Amidst the increasing Islamophobia, it is the women who faced the most hate, and are more likely to become victims of Islamophobic attacks. Women who wear the burqa, a popular type of clothing in

Iran(former Persia) is a country located in the middle-east. However, it's not an ARAB country and the people speak persian(farsi) NOT arabic. They are well known for being rich, educated, and good looking. They are also famous for their cats and hand-made rugs.

In this tedtalk, Melissa Boigon, who studies Islam and its relationship to the Arab-Israeli conflict, talks about how Islamophobia has become more of a fear of Arabs over the last 10 years. She thinks that has to do with the connotation to terrorists groups such as Al-Qaeda, and the way middle east conflict is portrayed in The United States today. She also discusses how American Entertainment portrays Arabs, saying that it's propaganda in the form of entertainment.

During the years of post-9/11, Americans have started to become wary of non-Americans in their home land of the fear of another terrorist attacks. The 9/11 attacks have changed American views on the muslims and on the Middle East. It also had made security regulation more strict and discriminatory. Since post-9/11, Americans the wrong impression of the Middle East and have negative views of it and also have stereotype of it as well.

After the terrorist attacks on September 11th, 2002, the government of America felt threatened. Society as a whole went straight to thinking that all Middle- Eastern people were terrorists and were going to plot more attacks. Many people who look of Middle- Eastern descent were beaten out of the anger from the attacks. It was common belief that people who are Middle-Eastern are terrorists.

Americans fear that the terrorists would some days attack their country, and kill them. This fear is vastly increased after the 2001 attack in New York City. Since then, most Muslims in America have been investigated by spying their phone talks, screening their profiles and so on . Although everybody knows that Muslim extremists are the only cause, they tend to relate it to all other innocent Muslims and discriminate them. It is not only affected Muslim adults but also their kids. They wanted to quit from schools because they were consistently called murderers. Worse than this, they received violent acts such as kicking, bullying just because they are born Muslims. The racism today is obviously shown in President Donald Trump’s traveling ban on seven Muslim countries which is later changed to six by excluding Iraq. It prevents all Muslims from these countries to travel to the US (Henderson & Graham). Even though the President wants to strengthen the security and makes Americans safe, the ban do affect thousands Muslims who do not involve in terrorism, and shows the discrimination against this

After the attacks on September 11, 2001, media approaches have altered. On Television shows and movies, in newspapers and on the radio, there has been an increase in hate crimes targeting Arabs and Muslims. Most coverage today follows a script that represents Arabs and Muslims only in the context of terrorism. Evelyn Alsultany wrote a book called Arabs and Muslims in the Media in 2012. The stories explained the new standards in racial and cultural representations after 9/11.

A common misconception that people from the Middle East are Muslim. Which allows the notion that Islam is synonymous to terrorism. The President of the United States has capitalized on this notion and used it as a weapon of hate. It’s clear that the president has specifically targeted this marginalized group of people due to his woeful ignorance, because of Donald Trump’s election and him directing his attention towards one specific race has been perceived as him normalizing the discrimination towards this group of people. With that being said he has initiated a certain

since September 11th? How have they stayed the same? Because of the media’s portrayal of Arabs as “evil” and “a threat”, most Americans perceived them as such. The Muslim and Middle Eastern community did not have such attention before the incident. Most Americans had already seen Middle Easterners has a strange and dubious group for the customs and common, religious practices; but it only got worse following the attack. Since 9/11, people began to perpetuate the stereotype that “all Middle Easterners/Muslim Americans were terrorists” as well as “all Middle Easterners are Muslim” and the people were consistently scrutinized. These harmful assumptions has instilled a sense of apprehension in the Muslim community due to their fear of being publicly discriminated. In contrast, the attack was not widely approved by Middle Easterners and Muslim community; the community responded by saying that it had been orchestrated by extremists whose action did not represent the entirety of their

The world is filled with different races, cultures, religions and beliefs; everyone has a different opinion and perspectives on life. Unfortunately not everyone respects other peoples personal opinions, this had led to discrimination, stereotyping, hatred and even war. After many incidents that affected the world; Arabs started being discriminated by many people. People were stereotyping the Arabs and they had the wrong image about them.

Immigrants of Middle Eastern descent have been victims of hate crimes since the attacks of September 11, 2001. The graph above, depicts statistics show the major increase of attacks towards anti-Islamic hate crimes after that attack (name, year). In the next 12 years, data shows how they stayed consistent and have not varied to much. Something to note is that their was not any attack towards the United States that has been as spectacular at the one towards the twin towers in 2001. That being said that does not mean that other attacks and incidents that happened in the rest of the world did not make an impact in peoples’ views towards Middle Eastern people in general. For instance, the attacks in Paris in 2015 made people rethink the issue of

Alas, Babylon was written in the early 50s and the segregation and attitudes of those times are specious throughout the novel. 1959, as African-Americans were fighting for civil rights in America and the third wave of the women’s movement was about to begin in the early 1960s. The portrayal of women and minorities is rather dated by its racial stereotypes and sexist assumptions, as most readers will discover. The female characters, included Elizabeth “Lib” McGovern- Randy’s girlfriend and later his wife is a bit native at the beginning but once her mother dies, she proves herself to be intelligent and thoughtful, noticing how the people are around her that no one else seems to notice, Helen Bragg- Mark's wife, and the mother of Peyton and

Imagine a young boy in the streets of Tehran staring straight at a blank light grey cement wall in the middle of the night with the moon and a couple of lamp posts as lighting. Spray can in hand, he points it eye level and presses his skinny brown fingers down on the cap, shooting red paint onto the wall. Three hours later, the young boy is in the same position as when he started, except the wall is no longer blank. Written on the wall, using sharp calligraphy, is a bold statement promoting democracy in Iran. This form of art expression is not the only controversy to come about in the modern Middle East. The culturally rich region has become more and more intricate as time goes on and has resulted in numerous complexities that effect the people

The article released by the office of the press security and is written by President Obama and is part of his Address to the nation speech. The part of the President’s speech that stuck out was when he said “ these terrorist groups don’t represent anyone, ISIL does not speak for Islam ” President Obama is one of the smartest people because all these terrorist groups like ISIS, Al Qaeda, and ISIL don't represent Islam as the true religion it is. All these groups all say they're doing it for Islam, but most Muslims haven’t done anything wrong. Most of the United States population is mostly immigrants from all over the world we will be looking at the good, bad and ugly shown by the media and Muslims themselves ISIL does not represent Islam. There are negative stereotypes of Muslims that are sometimes incorrect.