Attitudes Toward Muslims and Islam "is a study of Americans' opinions regarding a number of world religions with a special focus on Islam and Muslims.... One solution is through expanding on teaching education focused on Islam to elementary school children. This fix became the fundamental focus to abrogate Islamophobia because the importance of Islamic education in general will extensively open Islam to children who may not understand the religion in any other light than in the way that Western media portrays it. ... Integrating education to discuss the current misconceptions being m...

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Spanish Muslim traveler and geographer Ibn Jubayr's (Doc #1) description of Damascus as a highly honored, blessed, and heavenly city of Allah where Jesus and Mary took refuge in reflects the city's importance in Islam culture as a religious sacred site, which shows that Muslim cities during the Post-Classical Age strengthened Islam by attributing its current prosperity to the blessings of Allah and the alleged arrival of saints. ... Italian merchant Marco Polo's (Doc #5) picture of another prosperous city on the trade route, Tabriz, focuses more on the trading activities happ...

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I will be operating under the theoretical frameworks of several writers and scholars, as the information provided through their books and scholastic journals will help elucidate the topics I have chosen to focus on. ... In a post 9/11 Western society, Muslims have been labelled as the face of the West's current threat as a myriad of media channels claimed that the ideologies of radical extremists was shared by the majority of the faith. ... Furthermore, Huntington classifies Islam as an expansionist religion that is prone to violence, establishing the narrative of Islam that is currently ...

• Word Count: 2019
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