All Muslims Are Not Terrorists essays

All Muslims Are Not Terrorists essays Although all people from all parts of the world should be aware of the catastrophic terrorist attack that occurred in the United States on September eleventh, 2001 as well as the heartbreak it caused for at least five thousand families, the racial profiling and stereotyping of Middle Eastern people, which is a result of this event, must stop. The attackers of nine eleven were in fact Muslims. However, it does not follow that since those particular terrorists were Muslim that all Muslims are terrorists. Perhaps, a possible solution to ending the use of this stereotype would be to treat all people as if they are terrorists, with respect to airport security taking people aside for extra questioning. The media are the principle suppliers of false information about Muslims; feeding the public stereotypes that all Muslims are terrorists, and that the Quran, their holy book, promotes violence. An example of a time where the media has affected what the public believed was after the World Trade Center bombing of February 26, 1995. According to information gathered by columnist Pricilia Martinez, the media portrayed American Muslims as a people, as the cause of the event. The media had accused Racial profiling is a second example of how the stereotype Muslims have against them is being implemented in at least one major aspect of daily life. That aspect is flying. At airports everyday, hundreds of people who fit the physical description of a Middle Easterner, dark hair, and dark features, beards, possibly wearing a turbin, are being taken aside for extra checking by security. One airline, Delta Air, has even gone as far as asking a man to get off the plane. The mans name is Ashraf Khan, from Pakistan, and he claimed that he was told by one of the pilots, I want you to pick up your luggage inside the plane and I don't want you to fly with me on this flight. Me and my crew make ...