Author's Attitude

In the article “Islam in America”, the author assumed the readers not to know a lot of about the religious practices of Muslims. The author tries to emphasis the point how religious background can segregate people from others. she gives some descriptions on the appearance and religious background to the readers in order to let the readers have a mental image of how different these people are. The author mostly focused on readers who wanted to understand more about Muslim people living in America. She is making an assumption that people who reader her stories do know that Muslims have different cultural backgrounds than the White people. She is trying to make a comparison between people with absolutely different cultures and make a cultural fusion by telling the readers how the characters can adapt the new environment. The author gave out statistics and told the readers the misconceptions that all people had on Islamic people. She was explaining how people feel towards Muslims. The author assumed all the readers to think negatively about Muslims and she was trying to erase all the bad impressions that were made on the Muslim people and refresh it by saying how similar they were with the White people.