Catholics
Then, Muslims Now
This article discusses the injustice a religious group can
face if a society feels threatened. Starting in the 19th century Catholic
immigrants were discriminated against, subject to violence, and victims of
immigrant restrictions. In the years following World War II, Catholic radicals
threatened America. People thought Catholics were coming to America to take
over and promote authoritarianism. Americans distrusted and discriminated
against the Catholic immigrants and this pattern is repeating itself today,
with the Muslim immigrants. Some Americans have deemed that it is right to
distrust a group of people based on their religion. This attitude Americans
have about Muslims is not a recent trend, but has been building since September
11th, 2001. America is shunning Muslim immigrant, but in actuality these
immigrants are promised with success. Muslim immigrants bring very high levels
of educational success with them.
This article plainly demonstrates the ignorance of
Americans. During the 1920’s the American people disrespected Catholic
immigrants for an unjust reason. A few Catholic extremist made terrorist
threats to the United States, and Americans stereotyped an entire religion. Now
history is repeating itself with the discrimination of Muslims and Muslim
immigrants. Americans stereotype Muslims, and this attitude has spread. This
idea of Muslims has spread into the world of politics. Mitt Romney has shunned
notions of American Muslim disloyalty but the Republican Party has spread the
ideas further. Humans, and in this case Americans, reject what is different and
threatening to them. Americans are discriminating against all Muslims only
because a small percentage of Muslims are extremists. The ignorant thing about
this discrimination is that all religions have a small percentage of
extremists. If it is just to discriminate against Muslims, than it is just to
discriminate against all religions. It is unjust and ignorant to disrespect and
become violent to a certain religion without adequate proof.
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