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Discrimination after Sept 11 2001

Uploaded by Ifko on Dec 12, 2022

“Before September 11, we had almost succeeded in eliminating racial profiling. After September 11, was whole new world. One thousand Arab-Americans have already been detained and we don’t know who they or what charges have been brought against them”, said Michael Shehaded of the Arab-American Anti-Discrimination Committee. Quotations like this, which might be multiplied indefinitely, reveal that the impact of September 11 on Muslims, Arabs, and people from Middle Eastern origin who reside within the United States has been dramatic. It is chief manifestation, as this paper would argue, has been the use of discrimination and racial and ethnic profiling of these populations. Today, more than ever, people of color, particularly Arabs, are subject to racial profiling and discrimination because of heightened post 9/11 American anger, anxiety, and fear.
In the wake of September 11, Muslims, Arabs, and Middle Easterners have experienced dramatic increase in discrimination in the workplace. Despite government initiatives undertaken by the Justice and Labor departments to combat instances of discrimination and harassment against individuals who are perceived as Muslims, the statistics show that workplace discrimination claims have only increased. From an annual average of about nine thousand for the three-year period prior to the turn of the century to almost eleven thousand for the period 2001–2006, and now accounts for almost twenty percent of all discrimination charges filed during those years. As grim as these numbers may seem, they hardly convey what people of Arab origins have experienced in the workplace since September 11. For that reason, I deemed it necessary to cite Nancy Zayed case, an American woman from Egyptian descent, who had worked as engineer at Apple. She said that in the days after September 11, she experienced dramatic changes in her work environment. “Colleagues began asking me whether the Quoran really instructed Muslims to participate in suicide bombings,” she said. At one point, Apple even sent out requests for her citizenship status.
Besides discriminatory practices at the workplace, Arab-Americans have also experienced discrimination at schools. In post September 11 America, Middle Eastern looking students have been subjected to ridicule and blame for the September 11 attacks. “They called me terrorist and stuff like that,” one student protested. In other instances, Muslim looking students were being targeted and bullied. A 2020 poll, for instance, found that fifty-one of American Muslim families reported that their children experienced religious based bullying – insults or physical...

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