Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Oppression of Muslim Americans

      The first muslims that came to the US were the ones that came to be slaves from Africa and other places of the Middle East. These people were mistreated because they were used as slaves by the europeans so that they had to all the work. After that they came immigrating with everyone else and they were mistreated like anyone else becuase they were not american. They have been mistreated by the europeans when they were slaves and they were mistretaed after by americans because they were "intruders" in their land.
      The oppression of the muslim americans mostly started after 911 because the americans said that all muslims are now terrorists because of what happened. Not all muslims are terrorist only the ones that want to be and everyone can be a terrorist not just muslim american people or from muslim descent. For now the americans are just taking very good care of the airports, stopping every person that looks from the Middle East because they think that it could be a terrorist. This is not a good thing because everyone should have the right to be where ever they want to be without people judging them for how they look. The 1 Amendment is being violated when they oppresse this group because they are suppose to have the right to do whatever they want without people like americans telling them what to do because the muslim americans are newcomers to this land and we should welcome them peacefully regardless of what happened before.
      When the muslims got here the were treated unfairly like every new immigrant that came to the United States. They were mistreated by europeans at first because they were used as slaves and later the americans mistreated them because they looked like the people that made 911 happen. These people's rights are not mentioned either because they were not part of the United States until later in time and the changes that are being made are not actually that good for them.
    

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