Essays on Islamophobia

Inherent in the United States’ dealings with Muslim-majority countries is the diplomatic relationship with those countries, and how the Middle East and Muslims are portrayed to the average citizen at home. For most non-Muslim westerners, how they viewed the Middle East would be largely dependent...

Discrimination, based on religious, racial and ethnic differences, is being gradually intensified and largely spread among nations. Religious affiliation may be a stronger predictor of prejudice than others can do. Islamophobia is a type of religious discrimination that is defined as a way of referring...

Every society, every community, every nation of the world has its own social, political, cultural evils that they have to deal with, however these evils are usually at a negligible level or at least manageable level. The challenges that the Muslim society is facing today...

The Islamic Republic of Pakistan views the growing irrational and powerful fear of Islam and its followers (otherwise known as “Islamophobia”) to be one of the greatest threats and encumbrances of peace and development for Islamic nations and their people. The Islamic Republic of Pakistan...

Islamophobia fear and prejudice of being against the religion of Islam and Muslims. A phobia is an irrational fear, though some say it isn’t irrational to fear Muslims. Though people think islamophobia affected people after 9/11, the term was created in the 1980’s. There are...

This essay will be focused on the rise of Islamophobia after 9/11 from the time frame 2001 to 2008, as well as analyzing what caused the rise of Islamophobia. The first source that will be examined is an article “How 9/11 changed these Muslim American...

Islamophobia is a frequently discussed term these days. The term was first used in La vie de Mohammed, prophète d’Allah (Biography of Islam’s Prophet Muhammad) by Alphonse Etienne Dinet and Sliman ben Ibrahim in 1918 (in French). At first it meant to have negative prejudice...

This paper addresses the theme of multiculturalism in Europe, with the reference point being Islamophobia and the attitude towards ‘the Other’. Many argue that today’s negative attitudes towards Muslims living in Europe result from recent migration trends, the current ‘refugee crisis’ and a fear that...

Nowadays the world is facing many problems that lie in the sphere of multiculturalism. Multiculturalism as a whole presents many different questions and problems of the minorities that strive to be heard. One of the main issues today in my opinion is the problem of...

The War on Terror and Islamophobia American foreign policy bears an infamous reputation amongst world leaders for it’s imperialistic approach to world issues through heavy use of brute military power to enforce Western ideals of democracy. Such intervention has historically proven to generate more harm...