Literature Review
Literature Review
Methodology: Scholarly articles/ journals.
Literature Review
It is worth mentioning that most critics have blamed the Islam religion for the rise of terrorism and other insecurities across the world. The West has been especially critical of anybody that has an Islam background because most terrorists cite the Islamic ideologies to kill others. The religious intolerance has led to misunderstandings between mostly the West and the Islamic countries. The perspective has come to be popularly known as the Islam-West divide by most scholars.
While explaining the Islam-West divide, Nader Hashemi (2014) states that religion and politics have been related for long and that one influences the other in matters that touch on the relationship between Muslims and the western countries, especially America. On the same note, Glazier and Miller (2016) write that there is bad blood between moat Americans and Muslims. The research conducted by the two authors outlines that there is no direct reason for the dispute between the two groups but internal politics in the two societies play an important part in defining the kind of relationship that the two groups have.
According to Ogan et al., (2014) the hatred of Muslims and the Islam religion is known as Islamophobia. The authors state that the people in Europe and America had attitudes towards the Islam religion for long, but the 9/11 attack in America made matters worse between the two groups.
Immigrants mainly find it tough to be accepted into the West, especially America. However, the Asian immigrants who are not Muslims are also targeted when denying entry into the country. According to Ogan (2014), Islamophobia seems to have affected the Asian non-Muslim people seeking recognition ion America. As a result of this, some Asian people base their troubles in immigration on the rise of Islamophobia, which is partly right. Therefore, they tend to have some resentment towards Muslims and Islam in general. Globalization has not made matters easier as it has led to more interaction between the two groups, hence more resentment of Muslims by their Asian counterparts. However, one may find this odd because no Asian country has ever been targeted by terrorists who preach Islam ideologies.
References
Glazier, R. A., & Miller, W. J. (2016). For God or Country? Comparing the sources of anti-American and anti-Muslim attitudes. Islam and Christian–Muslim Relations, 27(2), 153-174.
Hashemi, N. (2014). Rethinking religion and political legitimacy across the Islam–West divide. Philosophy & Social Criticism, 40(4-5), 439-447.
Ogan, C., Willnat, L., Pennington, R., & Bashir, M. (2014). The rise of anti-Muslim prejudice: Media and Islamophobia in Europe and the United States. International Communication Gazette, 76(1), 27-46.
