Imagine a world in which you are prohibited from traveling to another country even though you are guaranteed the basic right to practice your religion. Picture an era where you and your people were persecuted, but now the oppressors march freely without second thought. Remember how over fifteen years ago, people that share nothing but your religion committed acts of terrorism, and people still hold you responsible. You can stop imagining now. Because this is the world we live in. A society of religious intolerance. Religious intolerance is defined as, “not respecting the fundamental human right of other people to hold religious beliefs that are different from your own.” Around the world in certain predominantly Muslim countries, citizens are …show more content…
This ban was an executive order issued by President Trump. It refused to allow citizens from six predominantly Muslim countries to enter the United States. The order went into effect temporarily but was eventually ruled unconstitutional and seen as prejudice towards Muslims. The LA Times wrote that, “Judges have said the president’s bans either violated immigration laws or were unconstitutional in discriminating against Muslims.” Because the ban was only implemented on countries with a large percent of Muslims, it was seen as unfair. A graph on Huffington Post showed that annually 11 Americans are killed by Islamic terrorists and immigrants combined. However, 11,737 Americans are killed annually by other Americans. Due to this statistic, it is bizarre that this ban is enforced. This graph was created before the executive order was put into effect, proving its irrelevance. The Muslim Ban is a form of religious intolerance implemented by the United States, challenging the …show more content…
On September 11, 2001, most infamously known as 9/11, Muslim terrorists from Middle-Eastern countries hijacked planes, crashing them into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. This incident killed thousands. Because of the attacks, many people belonging to the Islamic faith no longer felt safe. According to Huffington Post, “Suddenly, Muslim Americans went from being one of the least targeted religious groups in the U.S. to seeing hate crimes against those associated with Islam jump 1,600 percent, an FBI report in 2002 found. Today, Islamophobic hate crimes remain five times more common than they were before 9/11.” This overwhelming statistic demonstrates that the citizens who once felt so safe and at home in America are now fearful everywhere they go. Furthermore, they’re also having more trouble in airports and air security just because of the religion they belong to. ““She’s gotten the dreaded ‘SSSS’ stamp on her boarding pass. The Secondary Security Screening Selection subjects passengers to additional inspections.‘It’s supposedly random, but the only people I know who’ve ended up on it are Muslim and usually Iranian,’ she said.” The dire matter of addressing discrimination on the basis of religion starts by us realizing it’s occurring far too often in the United States and affecting the rest of the