The portrayal of Arab Muslims or Muslims in general in the past thirty years- in cartoons and films- has reached Nazi like proportions (see fig 1.1). In 1996 the Miami Herald pictured a bearded ape creature with the word Islam tatoed on his turban saying “we bomb innocent women and children to smithereens” ;( Hurley 127-28).
Greedy, hook-nosed, vicious, violent, rapacious, and turbaned or kaffyiehed […] Arabs have replaced the cartoon Jews of Volkischer Beobacher (a Nazi newspaper that published anti-Semitic propaganda) or Der Ewige Fude (“The Eternal Jew” a hate propaganda film created by the Nazis). [. . . ] A Palestine who murdered innocent Israelis was in our reports a terrorist- which he unsurely was- while an Israeli who murdered 29 innocent Palestinians in a Hebron mosque was merely an extremist, a zealot or [. . .] a member of the Jewish underground (Hurley 127)? …show more content…
What people do not realize is that all of the negative imagery of Muslims and Islam effects the lives of the Muslims who chose to call America their home. “It ranges from annoying jokes, to discrimination in employment and education, to the more serious incidents of hate crimes” (Hurley 129). In 1995 six million Muslims were immediately assumed guilty for the Oklahoma City bombing incident by the media. “The Washington-based Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) issued a report recently, called A Rush to Judgment, detailing stereotyping, property damage and physical assaults resulting from unfounded links between Muslims” ( Hurley129). Mosques were vandalized in the process; a Muslim woman had a miscarriage during her eighth month due to an attack on her home in the bombing wake (Hurley
Greedy, hook-nosed, vicious, violent, rapacious, and turbaned or kaffyiehed […] Arabs have replaced the cartoon Jews of Volkischer Beobacher (a Nazi newspaper that published anti-Semitic propaganda) or Der Ewige Fude (“The Eternal Jew” a hate propaganda film created by the Nazis). [. . . ] A Palestine who murdered innocent Israelis was in our reports a terrorist- which he unsurely was- while an Israeli who murdered 29 innocent Palestinians in a Hebron mosque was merely an extremist, a zealot or [. . .] a member of the Jewish underground (Hurley 127)? …show more content…
What people do not realize is that all of the negative imagery of Muslims and Islam effects the lives of the Muslims who chose to call America their home. “It ranges from annoying jokes, to discrimination in employment and education, to the more serious incidents of hate crimes” (Hurley 129). In 1995 six million Muslims were immediately assumed guilty for the Oklahoma City bombing incident by the media. “The Washington-based Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) issued a report recently, called A Rush to Judgment, detailing stereotyping, property damage and physical assaults resulting from unfounded links between Muslims” ( Hurley129). Mosques were vandalized in the process; a Muslim woman had a miscarriage during her eighth month due to an attack on her home in the bombing wake (Hurley