Minorities In America Research Paper

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“In the late 1930’s, on the eve of the Holocaust, a majority of Americans were opposed to allowing Jewish refugees into the USA. Somehow, overwhelming fear made them forget basic American values and they became accomplices of evil. I used to wonder how it would’ve felt to be among the minority of Americans in that dark time, to see so many fellow citizens choosing cowardice over compassion. Now I don’t have to wonder.” -Anonymous

There are 1.6 billion Muslims in the world. 1.6 billion Muslims in the world, and we have the audacity to say they’re all terrorists. We allow our xenophobic bigotry, stemming from fear-mongering conservatives (who run both the house and senate), to dictate how we feel. This, of course, instead of choosing basic compassion …show more content…
The estimate of .00016119% comes from the combined estimates of the CIA as well as what members of ISIS have claimed, about 200,000, (Patrick Cockburn, The Independent) plus how many are estimated to not be in Syria or Iraq. All of those bring the highest estimated total to a maximum of 257,900 members. But that maximum still only accounts for the aforementioned .00016119% of all Muslims. This incredibly tiny amount of people in the grand scheme of the entire religion is what we’re worried about. But …show more content…
But 14 years on, you would think we’d have snapped to our senses and come out of that hatred. We have not, sadly. Instead we are still caught up in this seemingly never ending sense of nationalism, brought on by conservatives who both vote for other conservatives, and the conservatives running the house and senate. But why? Why do they hate Muslims so much, or not want to take in Syrian refugees? Bombing places like Syria is certainly good for the big corporations funding the conservatives in office, but that doesn’t explain why they don’t want to take in the refugees that come out of the places they bomb. To me it certainly seems to come from a place of xenophobia and bigotry, as is the recurrent norm with this country, as I’ve said
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