Muslim Immigrants in the USA - Essay Example

About 2.6 million Muslim immigrants live in the USA, which is less than one percent of the USA population. Can this tiny fraction become a problem for the Christian and Jewish-dominated Society of America? Perhaps it was never been a problem until September 11 of 2001. This tragic incident created a 15th-century witch-hunt cataclysm in the 21st century in the freest society of the world: In the United States of America. Christians and Jewish people of America started seeing the face of Ben Laden on every American Muslim immigrant’s face. I asked myself what had to be done to change it.

I said Eureka when I read Liyakatali Takim’s article about interfaith dialogue in posts 9-11. Takim describes that Muslim immigrants realized that they could not live in a secular society as an individual layer. They need to be inside the society so their voices could be heard; they need to talk to their fellow Christian and Jewish neighbor. Read More