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Breaking Sterotypes of Muslims
Editor's Notes
- Introduction: Stereotyping and blaming a whole group of people for the actions of another is wrong and dangerous.
- Thousands of Muslim Americans in Washington DC protested against ISIS in 2015. Many of these protestors helped raise and donate money to combat terrorist activities in the United States and tried to show the country that ISIS doesn’t represent their religion. In other words, they are speaking out.
- An Olympian athlete named Ibtjah Muhammad became the first Olympian ever to compete for the U.S. whil wearing a Hijab. This picuter is symbolic, because anybody in America can achieve their dreams without separating their religious identity and national identity.
- 3 Muslim College students from the University of North Carolina who were murdered. The picture shows the mainstream news media which tends to neglect specific tragic incidents that occurs, specficically, anti-Muslim bigotry. Once these murders occurred, there were was no breaking news and wasn’t shown the mainstream news media.
- A Muslim woman who met a Trump supporter in NYC. She got to understand his struggles through dialogue inspired by her faith. At the end of the conversation, he told her that he will defend her civil rights and religion. She realized that not ALL Trump supporters are bad and claimed that her religious beliefs inspired her to build bridges instead of enemies.
- The first female Muslim police officer in the history of Minneapolis Min, to wear a hijab. Her passion and dedication to fighting crime was praised by the governor of Minneapolis. She stated that her religion inspires her to be a good person and help defend the law.
- This illustrates a psychological trauma that many Muslim Americans go through. The tags all over his face is a symbol of verbal abuse. It’s important to understand the individual instead of isolating him or her due to their religious faith. It will not make them feel welcomed in the country.
- Cartoon shows the burdens that Muslims in the west have to carry on their backs whenever a terrorist attack occurs. It shows that no matter how many times Muslims apologize for the actions of the extremists done in the name of their religion, nobody will ever feel satisfied.
- Dr. Latta, a Syrian refugee himself tries to counter attack the negative serotypes regarding Syrian refugees. His goal is to persuade the audience not to scapegoat a group of people.
- While we look at Muhammad Ali as a famous boxer, he was more than that. He was a civil rights activist who fought for the rights of all minorities who were oppressed and fight for justice inspired by his religious faith.
- This picture points out the hypocrisy of some people accusing others of not being patriotic. There is no specific way to demonstrate Patriotism. If a girl uses her religious scarf as an American flag, its showing patriotism. Her version of Patriotism is no different from a woman wearing the American flag as a bikini.
- Shows all 10 U.S. Muslims soldiers that were killed during their service in Iraq. These men wanted to show that they were American and loved their country like every other servicemen.
- Exposes hypocrisy of this man. He thinks he sees a Muslim man and a women trying to bring their own culture into America so he calls them out. Once he realizes that they were a Christian priest and nun, then apologizes without realizing that religious clothing can be worn by anybody who wishes to be modest.
- This picture demonstrates that terrorism has no religion. It’s important not to associate any religion with extremist groups especially by those who manipulate religion and twist it in order to use by the extremists as a propaganda tool.
- This iconic illustration symbolizes the horrors that other Muslims have faced under ISIS and have tried to escape from the brutality of the terror group. Blaming Muslim immigrants of being associated with terrorism is ironic, because they are the biggest victims of terrorism.
- A female Air force pilot from Qatar attacking ISIS demonstrates that she is breaking the stereotype that women are always oppressed. This picture also demonstrates female empowerment. It went viral over social media inspring many feminists across the Middle East and the world.
- This is Hassan, a Muslim who saved a Jewish passenger named Walter on the Train for being attacked. Hassan mentioned that it was his duty to help his fellow Jewish brother. Walter appreciated Hassan’s heroic action and mentioned that the mainstream news media needs to cover stories like this to show that Jews and Muslims can coexist.
- Ahmed here is giving blankets to homeless people out in the streets during Christmas. He works for a non-profit to help poor people who are struggling. He claims that in his relglion there is something called Zakat, which mandates Muslims to help the poor. It’s a way for him to demonstrate what his religion teaches.
- MERCY, FORGIVENESS, COMPASSION are three words to describe Rias. He was victim of hate crime post 9/11 when a racist shot him in the face. He would eventually forgive his potiential killer and beg the Texas state court not to execute him. 10 years late the killer would call Rias his brother.
- Keith Ellison, an influential Muslim politician in the United States. He was the first Muslim elected in the U.S. congress and continues to advocate for the rights of Muslims and other minorities in America. He is currently endorsed by Bernie Sanders to be the head of the Democratic National Committee.