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This is a 5 page paper that provides an overview of the marginalization of Muslim Americans. Examples of economic and physical marginalization are provided. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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driven by the argument between the necessities of national security, and the rights of individuals and groups. Instances of marginalization have included, for example, the PATRIOT Act, which many argue
has infringed upon the basic civil liberties of Americans in the interest of granting greater powers of surveillance and detainment to the federal government. However, there are other examples of
marginalization that are perhaps even more egregious because of the extent to which they marginalize not merely the population in a generalized way, but specific minorities within the population in
a specific way that has the potential to be actively destructive and disruptive to life. One of the main instances of this form of marginalization is the treatment that Arab
and Muslim Americans have received, from both the government and from their fellow Americans, in the wake of the actions committed by radical Muslim terrorists. For many, such marginalization recalls
the atrocities experienced by American Japanese citizens during World War II. As such, it is a topic very much worthy of in-depth exploration and understanding. Marginalization, in the context of
this paper, is understood as an expression of a dichotomous division of power within the United States. To phrase the matter simply, there are those individuals who hold some degree
of power, and those who are divested of power. Those who hold power are generally those who are ingrained into the institutional structures of power that exist within a society;
in the United States, this refers to institutions such as government and the police, but also refers to financial instrumentality - in a capitalist society, economic considerations typically drive the
division of power such that capital equates to a capacity to express ones power in an efficacious fashion (Katz, 2008). Obviously, this is fundamentally marginalizing to those elements of society
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