When did first Muslims come to U.S?
The arrival of Muslims on the U.S was in the 17th century with the arrival of slaves from Africa. Although some evidence suggests that there were Muslims on the Columbus's ships. Scholars estimate that anywhere form a quarter to third of the enslaved Africans brought to the United State were Muslims. Large numbers of Moriscos( former Muslims on Spain and Portugal) arrived to the Spanish colonies,which are now U.S territory. Moreover, the slaves were forbidden to practice their religion, so they practice Islam in secret and passed it on to their children. The next large group of Muslim immigrants began arriving to the U.S in the mid-19th century. Large number of Arabs, mostly from Lebanon and Greater Syria, came to the U.S from late 19th century until 1920s.
The first mosque in the U.S was built in Ross, North Dakota in 1929 and the oldest surviving mosque is in Cedar Rapids, Iowa in 1934.
Who are American Muslims today?
One third of the Muslim community is African-American, one third is of South Asian descent, one quarter is of Arab descent and the rest are from all over the world, including a growing Latino Muslim population. The exact number of American Muslims is not known; Approximately 3-6 millions of Muslims in the United States, half of that number were born in America. Most Muslims who immigrated to U.S , arivved to seek economic opportunity and democraric freedom. American Muslims today is largely middle- class and integral part of American society.
Questions:
1.How do you think Americans' attitudes toward American Muslims have changed after terrorist attacks on 09/11/01?
2. Do you think American Muslims are discrimined against by the Americans? If yes/no why?
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Great story choice and summary Nozima! The one issue is that you didn't comment to any student's which is worth 30 points.
I think if they are Americans they should be called americans not American Muslims. That's our first problum is labeling. After 9/11 im sure Americans including me were kind of hessitent on accepting them. I do think that they are being discriminated but everyone no matter what your race is discriminated, blacks, whites, mexicans, all sorts of people.
I feel that after 9/11 Americans were scared of Muslims because of what happened. I feel it is normal for humans to take one thing something or someone does and be cautious of that person or thing. I do think that it is passed but people are still discriminating Muslims which isn't right.
I definetly think that Muslims were looked at differently after 9/11 because of the attacks. I think however that their is nothing wrong with people looking at different people in different ways because it is a natural instinct for people to look at different in different ways.
I think American attitude towards muslim was negatively impacted by 9/11. After 9/11 Americans became afraid of foreigners specially people or Arab descent. To be honest muslims and other ethnic groups still suffer from the even of 9/11.
After 9/11 everyone was fearful since they didn't feel safe and they blamed Muslims because the people who commited 9/11 were muslim. I do think that muslims are discriminated in the US for many reasons but 1 main one is some people view them as terrorists and they are big minority here because the major religion is christianitity.
After the 9/11 attacks Americans viewed muslims much differently. People assumed that whenever a muslim was on an airplane with them that they would bomb it. Yes, muslims are being discriminated against, lots of people assume muslims are terrorists just because of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
Americans attitude got worse becasue they blamed many muslims. They also are discrimined against by Americans becasue many people were scared and the muslims were the closes thing to looking like the terrorist.
I think a lot of muslims were discriminated during 9/11 which is bad because they did not even have anything to do with that. Luckily that changed over the years. People started acting normal when they were around muslims. I think there are still Americans discriminating American Muslims. There has always been racism and I think it will never be gone.
I think the attuitudes towards American Muslims have changed greatly since 9/11 and not for the best. After 9/11, many Muslims were racially profiled by Americans for many months after the attack. Now, not nearly as many people are racist towards Muslims compared to twenty years ago. I think some Americans discriminate against Muslims which I don't think is right because most of them have done nothing wrong to hurt the people around them.
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