Voices Of American Muslims By Linda Brandi Cateura

Ferry terminals in New York normally have cabs that line up to transport arriving passengers to their destinations, but on a website called snopes.com rumor had it that in the early hours of September 11, 2001, nearly no cabs were available which suggests that Middle Eastern cab drivers had gotten an advanced notice of the attacks and that they should keep away from the area that morning (Snopes.com: No Taxis at WTC). This claim of there not being any taxi cabs around The World Trade Center the morning of the attacks is absolutely false and ridiculous. The individuals saying these things are not only stereotyping cab drivers being Muslims but also assuming that they all have ties to radical Islamic groups such as Al-Qaeda. In the†¦show more content†¦Muslims Americans became the enemy in their own country overnight, not just because of a shortage of information, but also misinformation, and media reports sharing only the negative stories about Muslim-Americans. Just because a particular group of Islamic people act a certain way doesn t mean that everyone who follows Islam acts in the same manor. People who believe that this is true judge all Muslims based on misconceptions, what they see in the media and lack of education on the religion. According to the article, Islamophobia, the author Carl Coon simply defines what Islamophobia in America is. He explains, Islamophobia is raising its ugly head in the US... it s beginning to metastasize into a virulent form of xenophobia, an eruption of the atavistic human tendency to pick sides and then if necessary fight to the death for the side one chooses, and to not reason why. His explanation is precise and is exactly the case. Islamophobia is developed when individuals pick sides against Islam without knowing much about the religion and/or its followers. Having heard about Muslims through things such as media and other people is not a good enough source to help one in choosing a side to stand by in a situation like this. A little less than fourteen years later these misconceptions about Muslims are still popular in the southern states of America. In the movie, The Muslims Are Coming! a group of