Muslim In America After 9/11

On September 11, 2001, on a Tuesday morning, an American Airlines Boeing 767 collided with the World Trade Center in New York. About 2996 people including 19 terrorist hijackers on-board were killed in this attack.

Occasions since September 11, 2001 have drastically changed the political condition in the Muslim world. The United States through its reaction to the September 2001 fear based oppressor attacks, the consequent war on terrorists, and the expulsion from intensity of the Taliban in Afghanistan and of Saddam Hussein and his routine in Iraq has turned out to be greatly related with the issues of the Muslim world, where religion, legislative issues, and culture are intertwined in confounded ways and converge with the geopolitical interests of significant forces.

This report analyzes the features prompting religious and political changes in the Muslim world, especially its 'religio-legislative issues' in which relations with God give shape and importance to political activity and introductions (Green, 1985), and the consequences of these improvements for U.S.

Findings and Discussion:

Pre-9/11 American Islam:

In the statistic field, I have referred to the way that Islam is rapidly spreading in U.S. The noteworthiness of convert to Islam to the quick changing American statistic scene might be measured from factual investigations of the transformation marvel. In the year 2000, only one year prior to 9/11, in excess of 20,000 Americans changed over to Islam. This implies all things considered 55 Americans believer to Islam ordinary. The investigation gives an intriguing measurable separation of the believers, particularly as far as ethnicity and sexual orientation. 60% of the new believers were blacks, 20% whites, and 20% Hispanics. Based on sex the examination demonstrated that 60% of the proselytes were females, and 40% guys.

The expanding level of white believers is another improvement. What the insights are letting us know is that 4,000 whites convert to Islam in the year 2000, which implies at any rate ten transformations for every day. The improvement is notable for at any rate two reasons. To start with, whites establish the greater part ethnic gathering in the nation. This implies Islam will have a developing portrayal in the white larger part network. Second, whites have been customarily seen as the most biased toward Islam. The change insights, in any case, demonstrate that Islam is starting to be acknowledged by the white network. More than some other ethnic gathering white Muslims can assume a viable job in connecting the wide social hole between the minority Muslim people group and the greater part white network.

Likewise very amazing is the Hispanic offer of the new proselytes. Their 20% offer is additionally a critical improvement. Hispanics are broadly seen as loyal Catholics. So the way that 4000 of them have entered Islam's overlay in a year shocked Catholic people group. Be that as it may, there is an undeniable pattern: an ever increasing number of Hispanics are grasping Islam, particularly in the province of California. Hispanic mosques are presently to be found in numerous huge American urban areas, for example, Los Angeles, Chicago, New York, and Washington, D.C.

Post-9/11 American Islam: Social and political Challenges:

It is a surprise to many people that despite its numerous challenges, post-9/11 American Islam succeeded in sustaining its pre-9/11 achievements. In fact, in some respect it even succeeded in surpassing those achievements. This is certainly true in the three key areas I have considered in the profile of pre-9/11 American Islam: conversion to Islam, coverage or projection of Islam for public consumption. One of the earliest Muslim concerns following the 9/11 tragedy was that it would scare away the Americans from Islam. It highlighted people have such a negative image of Islam and the Muslims that they do not even bother to study and to get to know about real Islam believed and practiced true Muslims. If this belief turned out to be true then one consequence of it would be a sharp decline in conversion to Islam. A study of post-9/11 conversion to Islam showed that conversion figures for the year 2001, the year of the tragedy, and the year 2002 surpassed the figure for the year 2000.

Muslims in the Western Media

Many TV shows depicted Arab and Muslim Americans as the shameful objective of detest wrongdoings or as devoted US residents. President George W. Bush made certain to recognize Arab and Muslim 'friends' and 'enemies,' expressing 'the foe of America isn't our numerous Muslim companions; it isn't our numerous Arab companions. Our foe is an extreme system of fear mongers, and each administration that supports them.'

The image of an Arab on TV, ‘‘He is dark and bearded, rich, carries a bent knife, rides a camel and abuses young boys. He knows curses such as ‘May the fleas of a sick camel infect the hair of your first born’’. This was even long before the attack of 9/11.

In Employment

Many Muslims are still facing racialism in daily life. In hiring, Muslims are getting less return calls as compared to Christians. In the context of Civil Rights Act of 1964, protection against the religion discrimination for every citizen is found in the workplace. However, it is claimed by many Muslims citizen that they are facing more religion discrimination and religious harassment.

In case of Zayed, a Muslim women working as an engineer in Apple faced religion discrimination after 9/11. She faced harsh treatment from supervisors and coworkers. She claimed that she was marginalized, her door was slammed, and anger that she had to take and sick leave. This resulted in her termination from the company.

In sports, a 16 years old Muslim athlete girl Noor Alexandria Abukaram was disqualified from the cross country race. Only because she was wearing hijab.

In airports, after the terrorist attack of 9/11 there is more extensive security checking for the Arabs and American Muslims.