With the news featuring headlines like: “Iran Nuclear Deal: What Happens Next?” and “Radical Islam: why Europe should be on war footing” it is no surprise that Western society has a fear of Muslims. In Azar Nafisi’s essay “The Veiled Threat”, she brings light onto a neglected issue within Islam: the inequality between men and women. Media has distorted the Western perception of Islam as it does with other cultures and people.
The news says “good evening” and then tells us all reasons it’s not. The news spends the entire news hour highlighting the negative things that happened in that world that day, then ends the evening with one feel good story. Because the people watching the news are getting only one aspect or perceptive the viewer will form options based on the stories they hear about a society. The media perpetuates stereotypes by the stories that they run. People in the United States only exposed to the terrorism in the Middle East. They don’t see these women fighting for their rights. …show more content…
Adicie felt offended when she came to the United States and her roommate assumed she couldn’t use the oven and asked why “her English was so good”. Adicie was offended, but years later when she took a trip to Mexico she realized why her roommate had the assumptions she did about Africans. All Adicie knew about Mexicans was the immigration issues she saw on TV. Adicie began to understand why her roommate made the assumptions she did. By experiencing both ends of stereotyping, Adicie gained a greater understanding of how and why people develop distorted views of other societies. “The Veiled Threat” gives insight beyond the terrorism shown in the news. The view the media gives people in the United States of Muslims is inaccurate, so Nafisi informs the reader about the struggle of Muslim women for
The news says “good evening” and then tells us all reasons it’s not. The news spends the entire news hour highlighting the negative things that happened in that world that day, then ends the evening with one feel good story. Because the people watching the news are getting only one aspect or perceptive the viewer will form options based on the stories they hear about a society. The media perpetuates stereotypes by the stories that they run. People in the United States only exposed to the terrorism in the Middle East. They don’t see these women fighting for their rights. …show more content…
Adicie felt offended when she came to the United States and her roommate assumed she couldn’t use the oven and asked why “her English was so good”. Adicie was offended, but years later when she took a trip to Mexico she realized why her roommate had the assumptions she did about Africans. All Adicie knew about Mexicans was the immigration issues she saw on TV. Adicie began to understand why her roommate made the assumptions she did. By experiencing both ends of stereotyping, Adicie gained a greater understanding of how and why people develop distorted views of other societies. “The Veiled Threat” gives insight beyond the terrorism shown in the news. The view the media gives people in the United States of Muslims is inaccurate, so Nafisi informs the reader about the struggle of Muslim women for