Scholarly Source:

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/05/17/many-americans-see-religious-discrimination-in-u-s-especially-against-muslims/

People from many religions faces religious discrimination in the US. Religious groups including Catholics, Jews and Mormons has faced discrimination in the US.  According to a recent analysis of Pew Research Center Survey 82% American adults says Muslims face at least some discrimination.  This research includes a chart shows the result from the survey they did to evaluate which religious groups faces the most discrimination. Even though 82% Muslims faces discrimination in the US, Jews and Christians also face a lot of discrimination in our society.

Magazine- New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/video/multimedia/100000002983556/there-is-no-peace-for-us-muslim-in-myanmar.html?searchResultPosition=2

Muslims in Myanmar are living in fear because of the inter-religious violence. Mosques and religious schools were put on fire. Group of Buddhists were going around the city shouting that they will kill all of the Muslims. This has been going through for couple of years. Muslims were being raped, killed. There was no safety for them in the country. The Buddhist-led government targeted the Rohingya people and the fight between the two religious group led a majority of Muslims to seek refuge in Bangladesh.

News Paper: NBC News

https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/india-s-new-anti-muslim-law-shows-broad-allure-right-ncna1112446

Muslims don not only face discrimination in the US. They also face major issues in a country like India where Islam is the second largest religion. Just like many Donald Trump supports, right-wing Hindu nationalists believes there are over millions of Muslims who are illegally living in India and they should be deported. Even though Prime minister Modi promised to take the Anti-Muslim campaign as a populist project nationwide. He is requiring over 200 million Muslims to prove their Indianness or else they will face being rendered stateless. In the article it is also mentioned how people of every other religion are getting the chance to legally become a citizen of India if they immigrated before 2015. Even though the religion of Islam is practiced by over 200 million Indians. The article also mentions the injustice that Muslims of Myanmar and Uighur are facing.

Social:

https://www.pri.org/stories/2019-11-29/tiktok-apologizes-us-teen-after-removing-video-critical-chinese-government

The crisis Muslims are facing in China is not going across most of the social media platform. Many people have tried to spread the new through tiktok. However, it is not a surprise that most of the videos were deleted by tiktok since it was a Chinese owned company. 17 years old high school Junior Feroza Aziz’s tutorial on how to get long lashes went viral which included information about the Chinese Concentration camps. They have been locked in the highly secured camps for over 3 years. She talks about the many ways the government is trying to brainwash the people from forgetting their religion, culture, language and their faith.

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