Racial Profiling Of The United States - 1943 Words

May Racial Profiling Rest in Peace On September 11, 2001, four planes were hijacked from different areas of the East Coast. Two out of these planes crashed into the World Trade Centers in New York City and over two thousand people were killed from that incident alone. One plane had also crashed into the Pentagon in near Washington, D.C. The last plane headed towards the White House but incidentally crashed in an open field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania (9/11 at nine). U.S Officials strongly claimed that the attack was linked to a terrorist group named Al-Qaeda. Ever since this occurrence many Muslims across the United States have been subject to racial profiling and security has definitely increased ever since, especially at airports.†¦show more content†¦The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World claims that day’s after the attack, the â€Å"Authorities raced up and down the East Coast stopping trains, busses, and cars; Questioning men marked as â€Å"Arab.† Just days after these plane crashes , Muslims across America were frightened to walk out their homes due to fear that they would be tortured by Americans. Even Muslim citizens whom have lived in the country for years were afraid in a country that was supposed to be â€Å"free† (Oxford Encyclopedia). This was labeled the deadliest terrorist attack on U.S soil but do Americans really know the meaning of terrorism? Terrorism, defined by the Oxford English Dictionary, can be as miniscule as bullying or of a greater meaning as in acts of intimidating the government in pursuit of a political goal (Oxford English Dictionary). Terror itself is simply fear. There are plenty of news reports of school shootings and other miscellaneous crimes, such as Virginia Tech where 32 people died, 27 students and five faculty members, Sandy Hook Elementary, where 26 people were killed, including the shooter, and also the movie theatre in Aurora Colorado, where 12 people were killed over gun laws. None were Muslim. Racial profiling in this sense can be slightly reduced by including these other instances as terrorism attacks as well. In America, the media strongly gives off a stereotype that most, if not all, terrorist are Muslims. After these