{"id":4053,"date":"2020-11-10T08:58:41","date_gmt":"2020-11-10T13:58:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/?p=4053"},"modified":"2020-11-10T08:58:41","modified_gmt":"2020-11-10T13:58:41","slug":"blog-post-11-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/2020\/11\/10\/blog-post-11-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog Post 11\/10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It\u2019s obvious that Islamophobia is on the rise in America and in the world.\u00a0 And the rhetoric being used now is much more openly Islamaphobic instead of the coded messaging used before.\u00a0 I never really thought about Islamophobia before 9\/11, and I thought it was interesting how Elba brought it all the way back to slavery.\u00a0 Once again I was ignorant about some African slaves practicing Islam, as I was alway taught about Traditional African Relgions.\u00a0 Although it makes sense that many slaves would have practiced Islam when they were brought to America, as it is one of the oldest and most widely practiced religions in the world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I found the article\u2019s definition of Islamophobia to be very interesting, \u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The presumption that Islam is violent, inassimilable, and prone to terrorism.\u201d\u00a0 The amount of Americans who believe that Islam is a violent religion by nature is drastically high.\u00a0 Where Pew Research Center did a poll and found a whopping 41 percent of Americans believe that Islam encourages violence.\u00a0 Overall, the rate of Islamophobia is definitely on the rise.\u00a0 Recent rhetoric has shown that Americans aren\u2019t only indifferent to it, rather they invite anti-islam rhetoric.\u00a0 If we are supposed to be a \u201cmelting pot\u201d we need to be accepting of all cultures.\u00a0 Unfortunately it seems like we are failing.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s obvious that Islamophobia is on the rise in America and in the world.\u00a0 And the rhetoric being used now is much more openly Islamaphobic&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/2020\/11\/10\/blog-post-11-10\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Blog Post 11\/10<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":4923,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4923"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4053"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4054,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4053\/revisions\/4054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}