{"id":4065,"date":"2020-11-10T23:37:01","date_gmt":"2020-11-11T04:37:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/?p=4065"},"modified":"2020-11-10T23:37:01","modified_gmt":"2020-11-11T04:37:01","slug":"blogpost-12-11-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/2020\/11\/10\/blogpost-12-11-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Blogpost 12 (11\/10)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Zinn\u2019s chapter, \u201cThe 2000 Election and the \u201cWar on Terrorism\u201d was extremely interesting for me to read. I think that the elections in the 2000s were similar to this year\u2019s as it was really close as we were waiting for the last few states to announce the winner. Besides, the Democratic Party then, asked for a recount and the issue was taken to the supreme court which was conservative, and thus, Bush was announced as the president of the States. I see a similar pattern of events being followed during this election as Trump is not happy with the results and is trying to call for a recount or take it to the Supreme Court to decide in order for him to win.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

When talking about 9\/11 which is obviously a horrible attack that should not have happened. I think it is really important for\u00a0 Americans to understand that Muslims have struggled a lot as well after it. In the United States, there is discrimination against them, especially when affiliating them with terrorism. And when looking at the Middle East innocent people are still paying the price with the US bombing the area as we see in Syria and Yemen. People need to start acknowledging that although this issue has affected a lot of Americans, Muslims had a hard time in the Middle East and America especially under President Trump\u2019s rule who \u201csigned an Executive Order that banned foreign nationals from seven predominantly Muslim countries from visiting the country\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

I think that there is an issue with the system that allows people to associate terrorism with Islam. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez mentioned that \u201cwhite men invoking white supremacy and engaging in mass shootings are almost immune to be labeled as domestic terrorists\u201d however any attack committed by Muslim Americans is always labeled as domestic terrorism which shows a relation of terrorism to one\u2019s identity as a Muslim. I believe that a lot of Americans form an idea about a person as soon as they hear something that makes them related to Islam. Because of my name, I was stopped at the airport as soon as I arrived in the United States and the first question I was asked was about my affiliation with Hezbollah (a terrorist organization in Lebanon) despite the fact that I don\u2019t consider myself a Muslim which they did not even care about. I think that the system itself has allowed such discriminatory and harmful behaviors and stereotypes to be spread among US citizens against Muslim people.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Zinn\u2019s chapter, \u201cThe 2000 Election and the \u201cWar on Terrorism\u201d was extremely interesting for me to read. I think that the elections in the 2000s…<\/p>\n

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