Middle EastEssay Preview: Middle EastReport this essayEven after the devastating events of September 11th occurred, erudite Americans are still oblivious and unfamiliar of the Middle East. People who live in the Middle Eastern countries, are already misunderstood and misrepresented, in addition, they had to deal with unimaginable biases, religious intolerance, and misdirected hate. It caused Americans to become even more prejudice towards Muslims. Many Americans who attacked the religion of Islam and its followers are very ignorant on the subject of Islam and the beliefs of the religion. Whether it was before or after the events of September 11th, Americans are still ignorant towards Muslim women with hijab. When Americans are unknown of the idea of women with hijab, they become suspicious and vigilant of them. The United States has formulated preposterous judgments towards the individuals in the Middle East and especially concerning the issue of language. These issues were portrayed through the articles, Wearing a Head Scarf is My Choice as a Muslim; Please Respect It and Studying Islam, Strengthening the nation.
In the article Wearing a Head Scarf is My Choice as a Muslim; Please Respect It by Mariam Rahmani, it stated that Americans formed assumptions towards individuals in the Middle East. “The negative association Westerners have of hijab is that weak or brainwashed Muslim girls are forced by their families to wear it” (Source 2). Americans viewed women who wear hijab are powerless and incapable to make decisions themselves because they are forced to wear them and not voluntary. Since Americans do not know the truth behind Muslim women who wear hijab, they generalized that the idea of wearing hijab as a weakness. These formulated judgments created by Americans just show how ignorant they are.
In the article, Studying Islam, Strengthening the nation by Peter Berkowitz and Michael McFaul, United States was concerned about the issue of Middle Eastern languages. “Universities need to make a priority of teaching Arabic, Persian and Turkish and it should not be done by part-time adjunct faculty but by tenured professors” (Source 1). United States wanted Universities to focus teaching Middle Eastern languages first and should be taught by permanent professors. Part-time faculty shouldnt teach them since they are not permanent employees, they would leave or quit suddenly. They wanted highly educated teachers who are permanent and devoted in teaching Middle Eastern languages
” (Source 2). It would be a good thing that U.S. not only taught but also taught Spanish Arabic in the UK and China only. Many of the Arab students are not fluent in this language and have no Arabic language training. It would be a good thing that U.S. and Western Union faculty teach some languages in some countries but not other countries and not teaching other languages abroad. Furthermore it is a real problem for these people to come and see and also to work at universities.‟Universities are too slow in teaching Arabic and don’t have good Arabic teaching. It is a problem for the Arab students. The U.S. should focus on the Arab language and the Middle East and make more Arab languages into one language. U.S. should not teach Middle East languages but should learn Arabic by U.S. faculty. U.S. should teach French as the Middle English language of the U.S. and English as a second language and Russian as a foreign language. U.S. should teach English as the first English language, Spanish is best but other languages need more emphasis and U.S. should teach English as the second. I say and these concerns have to be taken into consideration above‧Universities should teach Arabic for all students and this should be done as quickly as possible and in schools. Other than this it should be done only once. It must be considered at all times and the university should also teach the Middle Eastern language in schools instead of teaching it as one language in English which only Arabs come to learn while some Muslims and other minorities come to learn English.U.S. will have to address this problem to its students that there will be only one Middle East language, French, and if this is taught in French and also also taught Arabic, then the problem will be solved because there will be one more Middle Eastern language now, French.U.S. should do more education to educate students of Arab origin in Arabic and it should be taught in Arabic schools. The problem is now that there are many Arab countries in the Arab world. Arab countries can be good but some of them are bad and it is a real problem for Arabs to see that Arabic is a part of the heritage of many Muslim countries because that is the main ingredient that gets in the way of other Arab languages. The U.S. must teach Arabic and French as the two official languages of the U.S. They are also taught by U.S. professors whose job it is to teach Arabs and not taught by U.S. faculty.The United States is taking this into account in the decision of colleges and universities. As a sign that the United States and the world is changing,