Racial Culture and Misconceptions about Muslims and Terrorism

This article discusses the misconceptions about Muslims being terrorists and the marginalization and discrimination they face due to it. It also sheds light on the actual statistics of terrorist attacks carried out by non-Muslims.

Running head: RACIAL CULTURE
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Every time there is any shoot or terrorist attacks in the nation or the globe, the Muslim
people closely watches the news praying that this time the suspect is not over their religion. This
scenario is not old and it is not because every terrorist belongs form the Muslim country or
Muslim culture, it is the exemplified coverages of mass media that blooms out the unjustified
hatreds towards the Muslims of the current era (George, 2015). The entire world condemns the
very fact that the terrorist attacks are being carried out by the Muslims. The religion is being
marginalized and discriminated by the world in such a extent that many time Muslims are being
killed out of suspect towards being a terrorist.
This act is s serious violation of the laws of human rights since each and every religion
have their right to practice and claim for the justification of such hatreds from the world. Not all
Muslims are terrorists and people belonging to the Muslim religion often keep silent due to the
facts of islamophobia. Some of the major factors towards the concept of these belief of terrorist
being Muslim are hatred, suspect and marginalization.
The non-Muslims constitutes the majority of the terrorist of the united states. According
to the researches and the reports, 94 percent of the terrorist attacks carried out in the united states
has been by the non Muslims (Sieckelinck, Kaulingfreks & De Winter, 2015). Furthermore, there
were a greater number of Jewish acts of terrorism than that of the Islamic attacks in the past
decades in the world.
The non Muslims group makes up the majority of the terrorist attacks in the Europe. The
Muslim attacks were less than 2 % in the last decades. There have been more than 140,000
terrorist attacks in the entire globe from the year 1970 (Brown & Saeed, 2015). Most of the
attacks that took place was by group pf non muslims.

2RACIAL CULTURE
Thus, this systematic belief towards a particular religion and the acts of terrorism is a
means to disrespect the religion, its values, its cultures and its beliefs together with the people
belonging to the religion. These misconception of Muslims being the terrorist and responsible for
all the relevant terrorist attacks till date are mainly due the showcase and explanation of the
media towards their perceiving of the concepts of terrorism that is a terror to the entire world.

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