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Sekou A Bility

Professor Zack De Piero

November 23, 2016

             Islam today is the fastest growing religion in the World, but its members still lives in fear because of the way the media portray the image of Islam to the world. To experience what it feels like to be a Muslim in the world today, let one Muslim just commit an atrocity they blame the entire Muslims for that art.  Does the world have problem with Islam and Muslim or does Islam and Muslims have problem with the world? To answer this question, I analyzed to two pieces of article. Bobby Ghosh is a journalist and the managing editor of the business news website quartz article, “Does America have a Muslim problem” is about the reaction of American toward Muslim after the 9/11 attack, and a paper by both Barbara Perry a faculty of criminology at Ontario University Institute of Technology, and Scott Poynting School of Humanities and Language University of Western Sydney “Inspiring Islamophobia: Media and State targeting of Muslims in Canada since 9/11” talk about the anti-Muslim racism, violence in Canada since 9/11, negative media portrayals, together with discriminatory rhetoric, policy and public hostility toward the Muslim community.

In Bobby Ghosh paper, Muslim American need no convincing. Muslim murder their children. Christian kids have enough problem with drugs, alcohol and pornography and should not have to worry about Islam too. Ghosh give us statistic to support his claim. A new Time, Abt SRBI poll found that “46% of Americans believe Islam is more likely than other faiths to encourage violence against nonbelievers.” Ghosh in his paper quoted other Muslims opinion. For example, he quoted Arsalan Iftekhar Muslim American writer and commentator that argues “Islamophobia has become the accepted form of racism in American, and you can always take a potshot at Muslims or Arabs and get away with it.” And Eboo Patel also an American Muslim on President Obama advisory council states “The core argument emerging from the anti-mosque protests is that Muslims are not and can never be full American.” Ghosh argues that Islamophobia in the U.S. does not approach levels seen in other countries where Muslims are a minority.

On the other hand, Perry and Poynting, begins their paper with the aftermath of September 11 and subsequent terrorist attack from Bali to Madrid to London, backlash violence against those perceived to be Muslim escalated dramatically, resulting worldwide assault, even murders, especially in nations aligned with the USA. They believe that hate crime involves acts of violence and intimidation, usually directed toward stigmatized and marginalized some groups. According to Perry and Poynting, “The Canadian Islamic Congress (2003) reported a 1600% increase in the annual incidence of anti-Muslim hate crime reported to them, albeit from a low base of 11 cases in the year prior to 9/11 to 173 in the subsequent year.”  Denise Helly (2004) cites a 2002 CAIR-CAN study which found that 60% of the people of Muslim heritage surveyed reported that ‘they experienced bias or discrimination since the 9/11 terrorist attacks’, with fully a third saying their lives had worsened since 9/11, that they felt Canadians disliked them and that they were concerned about their own and their families’ safety.

After anatomizing both papers, it is very important that both writers begin their paper by given their credential that will allow us build convenient in their paper. Both writers also talk about the impacts of September 11 on Muslims and how Muslims are considered violence today. To draw our intention more into their paper, both writers demonstrate some important movies and logos in their paper. “Considering whether a technique Is appropriate or effective lets you contemplate what the author might have been trying to do and to decide whether much of readers would find the move successful. (Bunn81).” However, Ghosh was very critical in his analyzes when he said that Christians have other problems to worry about such as drugs, and pornography addiction of their kids, and that the problem Islam and Muslims such not be their only worry. That was so interesting for the fact that he’s not only looking at Islam or Muslims problems, but also other problems that might put our world in threat. For both Perry and Poynting paper, they let us know the direct reaction of people after the September 11 attack in Canada and that also fantastic. Both writer did an excellent job by providing enough evident to back their paper.

To conclude, Islam and Muslims became more violence today after the September 11 attack in the United States. Like Stephen Schwartz states “Islamophobia began to emerge almost immediately after the September 11 attack.” Other say the September 11 attack changes Muslims intention toward America. Up to today date Muslim are still consider violence in all Muslim minority countries.