Media Biases And Discrimination

Imagine being in a world where any body of any age, sex, religious affiliation or background could carry out their daily activities and live out their days without any biases or discrimination. Imagine setting up a world that has no pre-judgment for our children and future generations. This is the kind of life that acts such as terrorism prevents us from achieving. With every act of terrorism that occurs, a negative picture gets imprinted into the publics minds that will stick for a very long time. These negative images are mostly directed towards the Islamic faith. What we fail to realize is that we tend to pass on our views to family and friends and they too pass it on until the society as a whole start to view things in the same manner. This is where biases and discrimination are formed and occur. I chose this topic because it has significantly impacted my life both directly and indirectly. It has had negative effects on my family, friends, country and many other countries all over the world and …show more content…
If reasons such as having a political agenda, being a non-state actor and harming innocent people are used to separate terrorist attacks from non terrorist attacks, why segregate them according to religious affiliations? The bias and discrimination has been imprinted so much into our subconscious that when I asked my friends to simply describe what an average terrorist looked like, the results were quite fascinating. Everybody I spoke to, myself included, had at least one or more of the following descriptions; a man with some sort of heritage from the middle east or Somalia, with facial hair or turban of some kind and any sort of affiliation with the Muslim faith. None of them were trying to be racist or offensive in any sort of way, I’m a Muslim myself and yet I also have these common stereotypes in my brain