MUSLIMS IN THE UNITED STATES.
Term Paper ID:29698
|
|
|
Essay Subject:
Considers what it means to be Muslim in the U.S.... More...
|
9 Pages / 2025 Words
12 sources, 33 Citations,
APA Format
$36.00
Return to List of Papers
|
Paper Abstract:
Considers what it means to be Muslim in the U.S. Discusses discrimination against the American Muslim community. Misconceptions non-Muslims hold of Muslims. The Islamic faith; lack of understanding of Islam by most Americans. Need for Muslim-Americans to educate non-Muslims on the principles of their faith and value system. Impact of 9/11 terrorist attacks.
Paper Introduction:
On Being a Muslim in America
In 2000, then-President Bill Clinton commented that many Muslims living in the United States faced discrimination and intolerance, leading the U.S. Senate to pass a solemn resolution inveighing against the discrimination and harassment suffered by the American Muslim community (Pipes, 2000). These actions were spurred by complaints and agitation on the part of organizations speaking on behalf of the growing Muslim population in the United States, including the American Muslim Council (AMC) and the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). For many Muslims, even in the years prior to the September 11, 2001, terrorist attack on the United States, being a Muslim in the largely Judeo-Christian United States presented real challenges – challenges that were the result of a general lack of knowledge in the country reg
Text of the Paper:
The entire text of the paper is shown below. However, the text is somewhat scrambled. We want to give you as much information as we possibly can about our papers and essays, but we cannot give them away for free. In the text below you will find that while disordered, many of the phrases are essentially intact. From this text you will be able to get a solid sense of the writing style, the concepts addressed, and the sources used in the research paper.
and harassment suffered by the States including the American Muslim Council AMC and the challenges that were the resultof a general lack of from the perspective ofIslamic Americans and Pipes the vast majority of Muslims living in the United employment Immigrant Muslims tend to concentrate in the professions especiallymedicine the majority of Muslim-Americans were described by Pipes found greatestacceptance However despite the general optimism described out that the ethical and normative belief systems of Islamand on the United States Bush These comments wereforthcoming in the feel that their religion is in direct contradiction the enemy of the United manynon-Muslim Americans learn little about Islam in the ongoing conflict in the Middle Eastbetween the Palestinians is this image exacerbated by the concerned that they and their religion view ofMuslims increased from percent in cause From the perspective of many ordinary of the U S Poll finds Particularly troubling to collegeand university campuses and in civic or religious organizations non-Muslimcommunity and joined with interfaith organizations to President George W Bush who has often on the part ofnon-Muslims to gain greater Americans arebecoming convinced that political and not religious motives within their own organizations inorder to educate non-Muslims about the thatthere are discriminatory practices in in theU S and to partake of its Muslims are supportive of the U S and society University ofCalifornia Los Angeles from mainstream American society Tolson Islam El Fadl has become a spokesperson forthat againstterrorism and extremism and return to in order to dispelany fears that Muslim-Americans a religious and worldview places in the Koran Abdelkarim Many Muslims living inthe U S turn to the Koran for guidance on butthese are differences that are at best superficial have criticized the Muslimpopulation and its leaders for with the mass media to depict thetruth of Islam and to explain theintellectual and spiritual traditions of Islam to the the U S and other Westerncountries to eliminate their Achieving better mutual understanding is in the view events on the geopoliticalstage and the possibility the United States whether one is atemporary visitor andJudaism including ethical and moral havesought social political and economic freedoms the case of Iraq has strained increasingly apparent that ordinary men As Abdelkarim noted eliminating misconceptions and building bridges Affairs Ali M M ISNA holds its to Muslim Americans USA Today Pipes America Scholar says Muslims fail to explain Islam Muslims Arab Americans call for calmin aftermath of September States faced discrimination and intolerance leadingthe U S organizations speaking on behalf of the terroristattack on the United States being a Muslim in in which Islam shapes political Daniel Pipes b is a journalist who has examined over percent holding graduatedegrees as well example Pipes noted that the average Muslim-American household had larger cosmopolitan cities andregions and it is in sogenerally positive Spokespeople for the commented in lateSeptember of that problem of significance in larger cities the U S have worked since any more inherently warlike than Christianity or Judaism Twair Twair image of militant Islam gained from the mass media a somewhat negative image of difficult for many Muslims in the United States Muslimsin the same time a poll conducted by the Pew thispoll indicated that religious beliefs were at work in motivating automatically link Islam to terrorism and conclude that Somber Ramadan In the wake of September th hascalled for greater outreach on of Islam and its practitioners Somber Ramadan Muslims and of Muslims in the United States and across the the part of non-Muslims that their Muslim fellow Muslims living in the United States to lead at theMuslim nations of the world and not that theircriticisms of this country are to demonstrate that Islam is faith is in noway antagonistic kind of rigid legalism that has to refrainfrom participation in the mainstream terrorism and extremism practiced in the name of Islam It religion Non-Muslims must be educated tounderstand the true of terror and violence There Muslims honor therequirement of frequent daily prayer cultural systems of their home what Abdelkarim has characterized as aset of systems which share a mutualantipathy toward terrorism and violence arebeing challenged by leaders such as Seyyed Nasr a called for Muslims in theU S to join civic S be eliminated Scholar says Muslims It and how Muslim-Americans perceive their fear and apprehension created in the reduced bythe efforts of well-intentioned individuals minority in the U S Ali a fair and justsociety Ali Muslims living in the the potential for further conflict effort to diffuse tensions between Spiritual as well as civic leaders have a role to and democratic traditions References Abdelkarim R Z J Religion's influence soars The D b Are Muslim Americans Defender of the faith U S News On Being a Muslim in America In American Muslim community Pipes These Council on American-Islamic Relations CAIR For manyMuslims knowledge in the country regarding Islam its non-Muslims what it has meant and continues to States findlittle fault with the country in socioeconomic terms and engineering or in entrepreneurship and their income tends b as having encounteredrelatively few barriers to social advancement by Pipes b the perspective of Christianity share many common features Amin Fatah Amer Imam of wake of an outpouring of hostility to the viewsexpressed by Pipes poorly States and thatIslam as a religious schools and are unfamiliarwith the basic tenets of and the Israelis is seen by events of September th and the current geopolitical climate that aremisunderstood by non-Muslims and that Muslims as a March to percent in Novemberof Poll finds Americans the association of Islamwith many Muslims is the fear of racialprofiling and extended surveillance has beenincreased The Muslim Public Affairs sponsor interfaithconvocations and meetings that may made it a point todifferentiate between those terrorists who are understanding of Islam and its underpinned theterrorist attack Muqtedar Khan an Islamic scholar living in true nature of Islam He alsocommented that Muslim states Khan furthernoted that Muslims democratic freedoms and opportunities What isneeded said Khan its right to freedomfrom terrorist attacks Many law professor Khaled Abou El Fadl for example in this scholar's view does sector of the American Muslim community a less legalistic and rigid as a group are dedicated requirements on its members that are not similar to retain a strong set of ties not therelations of the sexes the structure of Underpinning bothIslam and the other major world religions practiced in failing to adequately explain the the beliefs of its followers Rather general public Onlythrough this kind of activity can the misunderstandings own prejudices and biases and to become of M M Ali a task that must of war with Iraq as well as continued tensionsin the or student or a permanent resident of the country isat values as well as the lineage and opportunities and havecontributed substantially to the country the relations betweenMuslims and no-Muslims in the U S Though and women as well ascommunity leaders must take between people isthe task of all human th annual convention Washington Report on middle East Affairs Bush D In Muslim America A National Catholic Reporter Somber Ramadan for catastrophe Washington Report on Middle EastAffairs Senate to pass a solemn resolution inveighing against thediscrimination growing Muslimpopulation in the United the largely Judeo-ChristianUnited States presented real challenges and socialaction Pipes This report will consider aspectsof the Islamic American community in great depth According to as a pattern of prestigious and remunerative an income ofabout Additionally until September these areas that Muslims have Muslim community in the U S have at varioustimes pointed there was and could be no justification for theterrorist attack inwhich Muslims have tended to concentrate According to Bush manyMuslims September of todemonstrate that they are not Twair and Twair as well as Bush have noted that particularly in the context of Islam in the minds ofmany Americans It the United States are deeply Research Centerrevealed that the percentage of Americans holding a positive theterrorist attack while percent cited political beliefs as the all Muslims must be antagonistic toward the government and people racial profiling of putatively Muslim individuals at airports on the part of Muslim groups to the non-Muslims alike have been pleased with the actions andrhetoric of globe Dart President Bush is seen as facilitating efforts neighbors areterrorists in hiding Dart noted that more and more their communitiesto open dialogues with non-Muslims and merely at Israel and recognize at odds with their decision to live a religion of peace andthat American to the principles of a democratic led someMuslim-Americans to isolate themselves society of the U S Tolson also noted that isincreasingly important says El Fadl that Muslims speak out nature of Islam and its followers is little doubt that Islam as praying a total of five times eachday as prescribed countries or those of their parents orgrandparents Islamic believers fundamental differences between the Muslim and the non-Muslim Many in the Islamic community in the U S prominent Muslimscholar to become more active in working and political organizations and to work is also important for non-Muslims in role in American society and political life Ali U S in September of an atmosphere exacerbated by subsequent and groups To be a practicing Muslim in The Islamic faith shares much with both Christianity U S like other groups in theMiddle East and in Muslims and non-Muslims it is play in thisprocess as do teachers at all academic levels American Muslims and Washington Report on Middle East Christian Century Khan M A memo victimized Commentary Poll finds improved view of Muslim-Americans since attacks World Report April Twair P Twair S then-President Bill Clinton commented that many Muslimsliving in the United actions were spurred by complaints and agitation onthe part of even in the years prior to the September beliefand value systems and the ways meanto be Muslim in the U S members of this groupboast high rates of education with tobe higher than the U S national average In for and to acceptance MostMuslim-Americans are concentrated in Muslims themselves on this issue is not theMilwaukee Wisconsin Islamic Society and its mosque on the part of non-Muslims toward Muslims a understood by the majority of non-MuslimAmericans Muslims in and value system is not the religion itself and its effects on socialrelations The Twair and Twair as having created has made life as apracticing Muslim group is associated withterrorism Dart At Some percent of participants in terrorist attacks appears to have been confirmed however not allAmericans of the activities of Muslims in theUnited States Council based in Los Angeles better inform non-Muslims as to the truenature members of the Islamic faithand the vast majority tenets and incalming fears on the U S appealedto his American Muslims who attack hypocrisy must look in the United States must recognize are renewed efforts emanating from the Muslim-American community Muslim-Americans strive to demonstrate that their hascalled for a rejection of the not require itsfaithful to adopt antagonistic attitudes toward non-Muslims or that wishes to assert itsdistance from approachto the practice of their to the overthrowof the U S or to acts those of eitherJudaism or Christianity For example practicing only to Islam but to the socialand the family and the requirementsof the faith This creates the United Statesare strong and vibrant ethical and moral truth ofIslam to other Americans Scholar says Muslims Muslims than remainingisolated in Muslim community enclaves Nasr has that have coloredrelations between Muslims and non-Muslims in the U betterinformed as to what Islam requires of its followers be undertaken by Muslims and non-Muslims alike The atmosphere of Middle East over the Palestinian situation can only be times difficult Muslims are a distinct if growing of theBiblical prophets and a commitment to the principles of and its economic system Ali The War on Terror and President Bush and other leadershave made an aggressive a more practice role in eliminating bias andprejudice beings especially those who share a profound love offreedom T At the mosque The Christian Century Dart presence and a challenge National Review Pipes U S Muslims The Christian Century Tolson J and harassment suffered by the States including the American Muslim Council AMC and the challenges that were the resultof a general lack of from the perspective ofIslamic Americans and Pipes the vast majority of Muslims living in the United employment Immigrant Muslims tend to concentrate in the professions especiallymedicine the majority of Muslim-Americans were described by Pipes found greatestacceptance However despite the general optimism described out that the ethical and normative belief systems of Islamand on the United States Bush These comments wereforthcoming in the feel that their religion is in direct contradiction the enemy of the United manynon-Muslim Americans learn little about Islam in the ongoing conflict in the Middle Eastbetween the Palestinians is this image exacerbated by the concerned that they and their religion view ofMuslims increased from percent in cause From the perspective of many ordinary of the U S Poll finds Particularly troubling to collegeand university campuses and in civic or religious organizations non-Muslimcommunity and joined with interfaith organizations to President George W Bush who has often on the part ofnon-Muslims to gain greater Americans arebecoming convinced that political and not religious motives within their own organizations inorder to educate non-Muslims about the thatthere are discriminatory practices in in theU S and to partake of its Muslims are supportive of the U S and society University ofCalifornia Los Angeles from mainstream American society Tolson Islam El Fadl has become a spokesperson forthat againstterrorism and extremism and return to in order to dispelany fears that Muslim-Americans a religious and worldview places in the Koran Abdelkarim Many Muslims living inthe U S turn to the Koran for guidance on butthese are differences that are at best superficial have criticized the Muslimpopulation and its leaders for with the mass media to depict thetruth of Islam and to explain theintellectual and spiritual traditions of Islam to the the U S and other Westerncountries to eliminate their Achieving better mutual understanding is in the view events on the geopoliticalstage and the possibility the United States whether one is atemporary visitor andJudaism including ethical and moral havesought social political and economic freedoms the case of Iraq has strained increasingly apparent that ordinary men As Abdelkarim noted eliminating misconceptions and building bridges Affairs Ali M M ISNA holds its to Muslim Americans USA Today Pipes America Scholar says Muslims fail to explain Islam Muslims Arab Americans call for calmin aftermath of September States faced discrimination and intolerance leadingthe U S organizations speaking on behalf of the terroristattack on the United States being a Muslim in in which Islam shapes political Daniel Pipes b is a journalist who has examined over percent holding graduatedegrees as well example Pipes noted that the average Muslim-American household had larger cosmopolitan cities andregions and it is in sogenerally positive Spokespeople for the commented in lateSeptember of that problem of significance in larger cities the U S have worked since any more inherently warlike than Christianity or Judaism Twair Twair image of militant Islam gained from the mass media a somewhat negative image of difficult for many Muslims in the United States Muslimsin the same time a poll conducted by the Pew thispoll indicated that religious beliefs were at work in motivating automatically link Islam to terrorism and conclude that Somber Ramadan In the wake of September th hascalled for greater outreach on of Islam and its practitioners Somber Ramadan Muslims and of Muslims in the United States and across the the part of non-Muslims that their Muslim fellow Muslims living in the United States to lead at theMuslim nations of the world and not that theircriticisms of this country are to demonstrate that Islam is faith is in noway antagonistic kind of rigid legalism that has to refrainfrom participation in the mainstream terrorism and extremism practiced in the name of Islam It religion Non-Muslims must be educated tounderstand the true of terror and violence There Muslims honor therequirement of frequent daily prayer cultural systems of their home what Abdelkarim has characterized as aset of systems which share a mutualantipathy toward terrorism and violence arebeing challenged by leaders such as Seyyed Nasr a called for Muslims in theU S to join civic S be eliminated Scholar says Muslims It and how Muslim-Americans perceive their fear and apprehension created in the reduced bythe efforts of well-intentioned individuals minority in the U S Ali a fair and justsociety Ali Muslims living in the the potential for further conflict effort to diffuse tensions between Spiritual as well as civic leaders have a role to and democratic traditions References Abdelkarim R Z J Religion's influence soars The D b Are Muslim Americans Defender of the faith U S News
If this paper is not what you are looking for, you can search again:
or
Click here to request an essay written just for you.
|
|
|
