Gender and Modernity in Arab and Muslim Communities

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Seen Through the Wrong Scope : Misrepresentation of Arab /Muslim People

Introduction

The Middle East and its people are known for many things , chief among them the massive oil wealth on which the region sits and the billions of US dollars the oil fetches every year . However , the Middle East is also strongly associated with global terrorism and the Arab community is famed for producing Saddam Hussein , Osama bin Laden , President Ahmedinajad , and hundreds of terrorists whose exploits in the US Europe , Asia and Africa

have led to the deaths of thousands . Suspicion and hostility in the western world towards people of Arabic descent has intensified progressively since the September 11 terrorist attacks in the USA . The deliberate attempts by the Republicans to label then presidential candidate Obama as a Muslim in an attempt to bring him down pointed to the view which Americans hold of Muslims . Although the West is wont to deny accusations of ethnic profiling within their national boundaries , travelers of Arabic descent are regarded with suspicion and are subjected to thorough searches and interrogations while the rest are passed easily (Malti-Douglas , 18 . They also face more difficulties in their quests for visas and citizenship in Europe and the USA (Gualtieri 1 . The assumption is that terrorists are most likely to have an Arabic background . Unlike members of other religions and races , Muslims or Arabs are treated as if they all share one perspective (El-Ghobashy 112 . Most Arabic people are not terrorists . Many do...