History of Islamophobia

War has a negative implication However connecting war and religion created hatred and fear in others. Jihad is commonly known to Americans, as “holy war,” has become a source of misapprehension about the Islamic faith. Americans describe Jihad as a devotion of Muslims to Islam. In times of self-defense and when persuaded by just intention, war may be used as a tool to continue being a pious Muslim. After a rough past with Islamic nations, following the terrorist attacks of September 11^th, jihad was only considered as war. American Muslims were targeted to racial profiling and racism. The country fell under fear of Islamophobia because the public was not informed about the reality of Islam. What Americans must know is that Islam is not a violent religion and that jihad does not teach fighting or murdering others including fighting with non-Muslims. First, all the terrorist attacks were not a correct portrayal of Jihad. The individuals accountable for this were Muslim extremists. Jihad is not synonymous with war Islam gives lessons about peace. Going to war is the last option. Additionally, Islam took its beginnings with acknowledgment of Jewish and Christian beliefs as well. Jihad is not a reason to be intolerant of other religions. The fault that divides the ignorant or fearful and those fighting for justice for all will continue to increase unless Americans can learn to eliminate these and their misunderstanding of Islam and jihad. Civil rights groups, such as CAIR, have made a great attempt to reverse the effects of misconceptions however, to begin altering the misconstrued ideas, which have led to the misunderstanding of Jihad, everyone needs to be a part of the change. This begins by enlightening with the right teachings.

Islamophobia affects different Muslim societies due to various historical, economic, political, cultural, and social reasons. Since 2010 one hundred and twenty an entire. Islamic bills were introduced in forty-two states and fifteen such hate full laws have been introduced to Muslim’s lives across the world. Unlike they are suffering different problems because of their religion. They are legitimating fear and hate just a different target. A recent   Nearly thousand islamophobia attacks were carried out in Germany last year, individuals have been attacked and threaten mosque burned. A survey finds more than sixty percent of respondents considered Islam incompatible with French values Fifty percent of Muslim have been bullied because of their Islamic religion Islam is a feeling of peace but they show like just Islam means killing guns etc. They called for a ban on all Muslims because Muslims are terrorists So can we lock down all Americans because most criminal gangs are Americans, African. Some Anti Muslims miss understands Islam and their miss understanding became stereotypes that support Islamophobia. There is an extensive culture of Islamophobia in Britain today and across “the developed world. ( Fatih Uenal1, 2, Robin Bergh1, Jim Sidanius1, Andreas Zick3, Sasha Kimel4, Jonas R. Kunst5, May 27, 2020)

Muslims and their positions after 9/11. The Muslims were always part of Britain since the 19^th century. Muslims came for trade and study to England. Within Britain, the interest in Islam was raised as awareness of ethnic minorities increased and after 9/11 the Muslims were considered against the west and it raised racist hatred and injustice. As the hatred increased the minorities were deprived of their rights so they started to fight for their rights by doing campaigns and asking those who have power to speak for them similarly some Muslim elite were part of the British community so they asked for their rights and new policies and laws were made to adapt the new migrants So that the new home and society can live peacefully accepting and respecting the traditions and culture of each other.

After the attack in 2017, the image of Muslims in the UK become faulty especially, of hijab girls. Socially, economically, politically they are showing inequality. The system of racism is a big challenge for Muslims. The Muslims feel that their voices are being dragged out and not heard. Debates and actions of Brexit and Trump show that they are completely against Islam and Muslims. They want to rule all over the world by smashing the Muslim community and it could divide the divide Britain. In the UK attacks on mosques more than double in a year. Religious hate crimes jump nearly thirty News coverage of Muslims is mostly negative. Anti-Islam crimes rise five times in past years. Over half of all hate crimes go unreported. Sixty percent believe Islam is generally a threat to western civilization. Most people think that Islam is a threat to British way of life. Forty percent demand limits on the number of Muslims entering the UK. A defining feature of this Era has been the unbelievable increase in anti-Muslim sentiment all around the world. Anti-Muslim racism is somewhat prevalent in all aspects of the employment process includes increased acts and threats of violence that unsymmetrical impacts women; and is manifest in opposition to mosque construction projects. A large number of factors contribute to European Islamophobia, including inundation in immigration such as the so-called Syrian refugee crisis that has left many Europeans fearful of terrorism. Still, official abuses against Muslims Continue in the interest of protecting national and global security while a distinct hatred of Muslims as a people grows. The irony of all this is that promote such differences and feelings of the division of British Muslims risks playing straight into the hands of groups like ISIS. Comparatively than making Muslims feel as though they are a community apart and under blockade, a more robust response to the challenges of terrorism would surely be to emphasize what we have in common: the shared values that are human values rather than those labeled as ‘British’ or ‘Muslim’.

Current media and campaigns have tried to distort the image of Islam and the root cause in the interest of the west in Islam which started in the middle of the seventies as the true Islamic state its policies and practices were always a threat to the west and its concept of liberalism and its ambition. As the west considered Islam a threat to its power so the west started to distort the image of Islam using different tactics because the direct attack on Islam would cause them more harm and less good as it will cause the reactionary response from the Muslim group. So the global media started to portray a negative image of practices of Islam and started portraying Islam as a threat to the West and then it started campaign whose main purpose was to justify the aggression against Islam like France started to ban Muslim girls hijab in school and western society defended this move saying Islam promotes gender inequalities this way while the Christians and Jewish students were allowed to wear their religious symbols. Similarly, the media started to portray Islam as a religion of violence and terrorism. And this emerged as a challenge to Islam by global media and was very devastating for the religious group to see such a negative image of their religion Islam and to mend this image of Islam its followers need the right set of skills, art, technology, strategy, and plate form to show the true image of Islam its practices, policies, tolerance, and justice to people all around the world.