Research Questions

Questions:
• Why do Muslims and non-Muslims target each other?
o Why do non-Muslims allow events similar to 9/11 color their ideas of Muslims (especially when other terrorists attacks have been made in the past by different societal groups, yet were not ostracized following the incident)?
• How does the abuse of Muslims affect related countries on a larger, more political scale?
o How does the trampling of those who are different in Muslim communities affect related countries on a broader scale?

These questions, I believe, encompass the more interesting and significant points of the issue. It is most likely that animosity between these groups is borne of differences in belief, and any paper addressing the topic would of necessity speak to these contrasts. It is also seems to me that part of the issue in the non-Muslim community is appearance, since people of lighter skin were never persecuted when Ted Kaczynski sent out his bombs, and one only hears of non-white Muslims being treated unfairly. On the count of the second question group, understanding the larger influences of a subject can lend to better understanding of the subject itself. I hope too that seeing how hostility holds political sway will be interesting. I do not know what I will learn, but I hope that these will help me to make sense of this quagmire.