Summary: Global Outcry Against Islamophobia

The recent terrorist attacks in Paris, France have led to a global outcry against Islam. With the American President himself accusing Muslims all over the world of being reticent against the rise of extremism in their religion, Islamophobia has reached a never seen before surge, especially in Europe where hate crime against Muslims has grown up to three-hundred percent. Thousands of refugees from the region affected due to the global war on terror, have fled to many countries seeking asylum. There has been a large scale political and social destabilization at the international, which has not only deepened ethnic rivalries, but have caused a racial outcry and new divisions in the society. As a consequence, the Middle-East has become a breeding ground for international politics, most of which is a masquerade for oil politics. Major world powers are misusing their positions to

The war, as argued by some analysts and political scientists, was based on doctored intelligence. The ‘armed enforcement measures’ led to an extensive amount of ‘collateral damage’ as euphemistically termed by the America. It is believed that the civilian deaths in the Iraq war range from half a million to a million.

Eventually the ‘collateral damage, led to resentment and instability in the area. After the America had withdrawn its forces from the region, there existed a power vacuum in the region, insurgent groups took undue advantage of this resentment and gradually strengthened their stronghold in the region. The insurgent groups used the radical version of Islam, born in the 18th century as a part of their propaganda and thus were able dissuade the youth in the region to join them for their cause. Thus, a previously small insurgent group like the ISIS was able to rise into a mammoth sized terrorist