AlJazeeraEnglish | September 13, 2010 - Amnesty International asys anti-Islam sentiment is on the rise in the US. The human rights group has pointed to rising crimes committed against Muslims in the country including the stabbing of a cab driver in New York and attacks on mosque sites around the country. Is Islamphobia motivated by politics? Or is it just exaggerated and blown out of proportion by the world's media?
Editor's note:
1. The prolonged crisis is beneficial to the politicians for these issues will shift the public's focus from the serious economic problems that are causing economic and social insecurity within the civil society.
2. The crisis also assist the far right is gaining a political audience that will be advantages to the right and capitalism as a whole.
3. It also channeled the main stream media away from the inconclusive evidence that "Muslims terrorist" caused 911, into a bandwagon that had accepted "Muslims terrorist" as the culprits and the guilty party.
There are also other serious problems that will be created such as:
1. The Muslim fighters in Afghanistan (they are not terrorists, they are just victims of US "blame game" and collective punishment exercises) are losing faith to accept negotiation and go into a diplomatic mode of conflict resolutions, for
i) The initial surrender previously resulted in numerous death in the transport by "containers scandal".
ii) The hideous and humiliating tortures endured by prisoners at the Guantanamo Bay detention center.
iii) The long wait or Obama's had renegade on his promise to close down Guantanamo Bay detention center.
iv) The court refusal to address the scandal of "terror flights" taking prisoners to third countries for detention and torture.
v) The non concerned attitude of US on Child and women being tortured as a result of being accused(not found guilty yet) of terrorist acts.
and now...
2. The hostile civil society towards Muslims and their beliefs - such as the burning of the Qur'an and stopping of mosques from being built.
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