Anti Muslim Racism

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The racist believes he is better because of his background or nationality - that's crucial. He does not stop at the fact that someone is so strange that one can therefore imagine no living together: he connects the rejection with a value judgment. As a rule, the racist feels superior to the group he rejects. Therefore, racism is such a temptation even for weak characters. People who are at peace with themselves do not need to look down on others to feel better. Racism is a visual ideology based on clichés or stereotypes. In addition, racism can also be described as a type of ideology because it integrates ideas from the social sciences, psychology, biology or medicine and combines it with resentments and stereotypes, such as differentiation…show more content…
Anti- Muslim racism treats the culture and the religion of ‘others’ as interchangeable terms. Firstly, religion – often pictured in its most restrictive forms – is seen as dominating and defining culture, while secondly the vague notion of culture serves to include all people with a (family or migration) background that might in any way be linked to Islam into this group irrespective of individual religious (or atheist) practices. In the case of the civic initiatives lobbying against mosques or Islamic centres it even represents the only relevant…show more content…
The main contexts in which such policies have been implemented are admission to high education and hiring and promotions in jobs, but rules that require a certain proportion of contracts by cities to be to minority business would also constitute a form of affirmative action. Many specific devices are possible. The simplest is a quota system in which, for example, a certain proportion of the students admitted to a program are required to be African-American or other historically discriminated against groups. More complex systems allocate points to a wide variety of criteria relevant to admissions: test scores, interviews, extracurricular activities, special talents, economic disadvantaged, and so on. Race could be one Chapter of the criteria in such a list. This is not a quota system, but a system for giving some weight to race. A third strategy is to adopt selective admission criteria that are anchored in some condition that is highly correlated with race, but not race itself. Extra admissions points, for example, can be given a student who comes from a school with a high poverty rate, since the students in such schools will be
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