9/11 Pros And Cons

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After the tragic events of 9/11, the United States was never the same. As a nation, we were hit in our deepest core and it, unfortunately, ended the lives of so many innocent Americans. These attacks shocked our nation, but our resilience united us even more. After this terrible day president George W.Bush declared the war on terror. This was after intelligence agencies figured out the attacks had been caused by Al-Qaeda. This was an Islamic radical terrorist group, who were led by their notorious leader Osama Bin Laden. He was one of the FBI’s most wanted men and was in charge of many attacks around the world. Since Osama Bin Laden was a believer in Islam many Americans created a misconception on Muslim people and thought of them as a terrorist. …show more content…
Many of them include the Columbine High School shootings, the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings, the Oklahoma City Bombings, and much more. The people who have caused these attacks are our own Americans who face no scrutiny for their actions. Blaming the Muslim community for attacks like the Boston Bombings and the Orlando Night Club shootings is unfair. If our people do not go through the same scrutiny that Muslim people go through then they should not tolerate this unfair ban against them. We as Americans like to stereotype others because of religion, skin color, and ideological beliefs, which is inhumane. After the attacks of 9/11, the Muslim community faced a backlash with many thinking their religion was the reason for this tragedy. In the article The Polls-Trends: Arab and Muslim Americans and Islam in the aftermath of 9/11 author Costas Panagopoulos says that a “study released by Human Rights Watch in November 2002 noted that the Federal Bureau of Investigation reported a 17-fold increase in anti-Muslim crimes nationwide during 2001; in Los Angeles County and Chicago, officials reported 15 times the number of anti-Arab and anti-Muslim crimes in 2001 compared with the preceding year.” These anti-Muslim attacks included targeting Muslim mosques and women who wore hijabs. Muslim people, in general, have been targeted for looking suspicious …show more content…
In that same period, guns claimed 1.34 million lives in America, including murders, suicides, and accidents. That’s about as many people as live in Boston and Seattle combined.” This statistic is horrifyingly true because our people suffer from mental illnesses or even from jealousy. We need to have more healthcare resources in order to help those who suffer from Bipolar disorder, Schizophrenia, and Post Traumatic Stress disorder. These are the leading health concerns we face as a country since most killers suffer from some sort of stress. The author also emphasizes that “husbands are incomparably more deadly in America than jihadist terrorists. And husbands are so deadly in part because in America they have ready access to firearms, even when they have a history of violence. In other countries, brutish husbands put wives in hospitals; in America, they put them in graves.” This is also a concern when we talk about domestic issues, Trump is not acknowledging the reality that weapons have a great influence in mass killings. Instead of being lenient on gun control he should put a strict law that prohibits any potential murderer from having access to a weapon. The United States should not ban these innocent Muslim refugees because we are a nation made up of immigrants. Muslims immigrants like any other foreigner only seek to find a better life by