How U.S. Institutions Sanction Intolerance & Indifference Against Muslims
When prejudice targets Black, Jewish, or Latino communities, Americans voice outrage. However, anti-Muslim sentiment is often met with silence, dismissal, or even applause.
Anti-Muslim sentiment is not an outlier in the United States, but rather it is woven into the nation's social DNA and political machinery. Despite Islam being a faith followed by over two billion people worldwide, and America being home to millions of Muslims, hostility toward them in the U.S. is tolerated in ways that would be unthinkable toward other religious communities.
The question remains, why is such discrimination accepted? Is it simply fear, or part of a larger political and geopolitical apparatus designed to keep the U.S. at odds with the Muslim world? The author has witnessed this reality firsthand since the fall of 2001, at the start of a federal law enforcement career that intersected with a personal relationship that shook their worldview.
Anti-Muslim sentiment isn’t an outlier in the United States — it is woven into the nation’s social DNA and political machinery.
Author's summary: Anti-Muslim sentiment is deeply ingrained in US society.
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