Islamophobia

Assignment # 1 Faculty: Current Affairs Teacher: Ali Mujahid Class ID: military issue: Islamophobia Student Name: Syed Fahad Ali Student ID: 54592 Submission Date : 25/09/2010 Islamophobia Reference website: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamophobia Islamophobia (ie. Islam+phobia, fear) is prejudice against, or an ill-considered fear of Islam or Muslims. The line seems to date back to the youthful 1980s, but came into common usage after(prenominal) the September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States to refer to types of political dialogue that appeared prejudicially resistant to pro-Islamic argument. In 1997, the British Runnymede Trust defined Islamophobia as the dread or hatred of Islam and therefore, to the fear and dislike of all Muslims, stating that it also refers to the exert of discriminating against Muslims by excluding them from the economic, social, and public life of the nation. It includes the perception that Islam has no values in common with other cultures, is inferior to the western hemisphere and is a violent political ideology rather than a religion.

Professor Anne Sophie Roald writes that steps were taken toward official acceptance of the term in January 2001 at the Stockholm International Forum on Combating Intolerance, where Islamophobia was recognized as a form of bigotry alongside Xenophobia and Antisemitism. A perceived trend of increasing Islamophobia during the 2000s has been attributed by some commentators to the September 11 attacks, while others associate it with the promptly growing Muslims populations in the occidental world, especially in Western Europe, due to both immigration and high fertility rate. In May 2002, the European Monitoring Centre on racialism and Xenophobia (EUMC), a European Union watchdog, released a report empower Summary report on Islamophobia in the EU after 11 September 2001, which described an increase in Islamophobia-related incidents in European member states post-9/11. Although the term is widely recognized and used, it... If you regard to get a full essay, order it on our website: Orderessay

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