Ayeena Aleah M. Dicali
English 27 – Z
Sir Andre Dominic Peralta
Mainstream Media: Misleading News Leads to Further Stigmatization of Muslims
Inequality and Stereotypes among Races, Religions and Islamophobia Ever since the birth of capitalism and modern humans, races and religions were never equal. White is superior than black, Hispanics are illegal masters, African Americans are violent and Muslims are terrorists. These stereotypes are harmless when privatized but may cause serious effects towards the victims of prejudices when openly discriminated. Harmless people are driven out of their homes out of hate, many are jobless due to companies preventing certain races to get the qualifications for the job, Mexicans are always asked about drugs …show more content…
570–8 June 632 CE)”. Simply put, Islam is the religion prescribed by God (Allah) with the Qur’an as the Holy Book and Prophet Muhammad as the Last of the Prophets. Why does the US sabotage the image of Islam? According to Qutb (1981), the Western people are hostile to the idea of religions itself, particularly with Islam and the objective of this condemnation towards Islam is to agitate the foundations of the religion and therefore eventually destroy the Muslim society. Many Islamists such as Ayatollah Khomeini, Anwar al-Awlaki and Dokka Umarov believe in the conspiracy theory of “War on Islam” lead by the Western government. The reasons, according to these Islamists, may have been due to the oil reserve in the Middle East and/or the threat of Muslim countries in …show more content…
According to Miller (2002), the media exploits its ability to represent something differently and it is crucial to whom and what gets represented as there are many ways in portraying things. The things represented in this way are the things that we know in our society, and it is up to us if we accept these policies or not. This tells a lot about the power of media in influencing the minds of the audience. Back in 1993, the Muslims particularly in Britain have raised their concerns about how the media portrays Islam (Saeed, 2007). Since the 9/11, people have become more curious about the “true motive” of Islam and why “Muslims are bombers”. Thus, people who are Islamophobic used media in exploiting their hatred and bias against Islam.
Nowadays, it is common for a TV/ news network to be biased. It is clever how when a Muslim commits murder, the headlines in most newspapers and TV news specify the murderer to be a “Muslim murderer” but if a Christian man commits murder, the word “Christian” is usually omitted. Another example of media manipulation is the trend of putting the word “terrorist” beside “Muslim” whenever an extremist “Muslim” commits terrorism. This small, modest manipulation brings a big difference in the mindset of the
English 27 – Z
Sir Andre Dominic Peralta
Mainstream Media: Misleading News Leads to Further Stigmatization of Muslims
Inequality and Stereotypes among Races, Religions and Islamophobia Ever since the birth of capitalism and modern humans, races and religions were never equal. White is superior than black, Hispanics are illegal masters, African Americans are violent and Muslims are terrorists. These stereotypes are harmless when privatized but may cause serious effects towards the victims of prejudices when openly discriminated. Harmless people are driven out of their homes out of hate, many are jobless due to companies preventing certain races to get the qualifications for the job, Mexicans are always asked about drugs …show more content…
570–8 June 632 CE)”. Simply put, Islam is the religion prescribed by God (Allah) with the Qur’an as the Holy Book and Prophet Muhammad as the Last of the Prophets. Why does the US sabotage the image of Islam? According to Qutb (1981), the Western people are hostile to the idea of religions itself, particularly with Islam and the objective of this condemnation towards Islam is to agitate the foundations of the religion and therefore eventually destroy the Muslim society. Many Islamists such as Ayatollah Khomeini, Anwar al-Awlaki and Dokka Umarov believe in the conspiracy theory of “War on Islam” lead by the Western government. The reasons, according to these Islamists, may have been due to the oil reserve in the Middle East and/or the threat of Muslim countries in …show more content…
According to Miller (2002), the media exploits its ability to represent something differently and it is crucial to whom and what gets represented as there are many ways in portraying things. The things represented in this way are the things that we know in our society, and it is up to us if we accept these policies or not. This tells a lot about the power of media in influencing the minds of the audience. Back in 1993, the Muslims particularly in Britain have raised their concerns about how the media portrays Islam (Saeed, 2007). Since the 9/11, people have become more curious about the “true motive” of Islam and why “Muslims are bombers”. Thus, people who are Islamophobic used media in exploiting their hatred and bias against Islam.
Nowadays, it is common for a TV/ news network to be biased. It is clever how when a Muslim commits murder, the headlines in most newspapers and TV news specify the murderer to be a “Muslim murderer” but if a Christian man commits murder, the word “Christian” is usually omitted. Another example of media manipulation is the trend of putting the word “terrorist” beside “Muslim” whenever an extremist “Muslim” commits terrorism. This small, modest manipulation brings a big difference in the mindset of the