Sociological Conflict Perspective Example

Sociological Conflict Perspective Example

Thesis: This article is a great explanation of the conflict perspective of Sociology
Summary of the article: This article is about the recent decision by New York Congressman and chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, Peter King, to hold congressional hearings into the “radicalization” of American Muslims. Apparently, King feels as if it is his duty to investigate what he deems as a real terrorist threat to the United States. With this news, constituents of King have gathered outside his office. Some of these gathering consist of peace chanting Muslims, while others are totally on board with King, and believe that we shouldn’t even be letting Muslims into this country. The congressman declined to comment on this article, but the author notes that on his website, a controversial CNN article is cited, stating that in 2004, over 80% of American mosques were controlled by Muslim extremists. According to the article, this is highly debatable. Zaheer Uddin, the executive director of the Islamic Leadership Council of New York states that there is a possibility that a few of these mosques do exist, but that they don’t know of any specific mosques that practice this radical extremism. Uddin stated that studies have shown that only 5% of National terrorism plots are committed by Muslims, and also, that a recent Duke University study revealed that 48 out of 120 terrorist plots since 2001 were uncovered by US authorities based on tips from Muslims. There was a rally in opposition to these hearings in Times Square on Sunday March 6, 2011 in which some Christians and Jews joined in the protests. The protests set out to declare that extremism comes in all forms and from all faith traditions. The VOA confirms this via an FBI report that shows that US domestic terrorist threats range from white supremacists to eco-terrorists to anti-government extremists and separatists. King is refusing to change the focus of the hearings

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