Islam And The Western Media

Islam, meaning submission or submitting oneself fully to God, is one of the world’s largely practiced religions. Those that participate and practice the Islamic religion

Media has this bad image of Islam and how crazy they are. Especially in America , after 9/11. Media is meant to only focus on the negative stuff rather than the positive. The media never shows the actual true meaning of their religion. Most of the stuff on media of Islam are bad actions that few people have chosen to make. In America, a lot of people judge Islam without trying to understand the differences between the extremists to the good Islam people. They jump to conclusion without trying to learn and understand the truth about Islam religion. Media only shows the bad outcomes and do not share that Islam also has good people like every other religion. Not all Islam people are terrorist such as not all black people are criminals. There is

The Islamic religion is a Middle Eastern, Arabic Peninsula, based religion that originated right around the 7th c. and is based on the teachings of the Prophet Muhammad. The definition of the word Islam means "submission" in Arabic, and connotes the notion of a total surrender of oneself to God, Allah in the Arabic language. Individuals who practice Islam are known as Muslims, which, again in Arabic, means "one who submits to God"

Islam: suppressor of women, enemy of Western nations, and breeder of terrorists. The West has many stereotypes and misconceptions about Islam that are due to the media, prejudice, and ignorance. Islam is often seen as an "extremist" or "terrorist" religion. Often, the media's reports about Islam are incorrect due to ignorance or not wanting to acknowledge its true teachings. This is one of the reasons why Westerners are often wary of Muslims. In contrast to what the media portrays, Islam is a peaceful religion, which does not promote violence or terrorism.

After September 11, 2001, U.S. citizens were shocked that over 2,900 people were dead because of Islamic extremists (Kean, et al. "National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States"). More deaths occurred in the Paris and San Bernardino attacks. Tensions between the U.S. and Islamic extremists have not yet subsided. Americans receive information regarding Islamic extremists through the media, from which they form opinions on what the U.S.’s foreign policy with the Middle East should be, which affects military spending. To what extent has the media’s portrayal of Islamic extremists affected U.S. military spending and relations with the Middle East?

Islam is an Arabic word meaning submission and therefore Islam religion is believed to be an Abrahamic religion which believes in submission to the almighty God Allah and Muhammad as the prophet. Quran is the holy book believed to be the guideline of the Muslims who are the followers of the Islamic religion. It is believed that Allah repeatedly revealed to Muhammad verbally through angel Gabriel and recited in the Quran (Hadith of Revelation, Volume 1, Book 1, Number 3). Over time particular aspects arose from the Quranic teachings and Muslims began to have questions about the teachings and translation of The Quran, thus, narrations were developed in Hadiths.

Islam, a major world religion, founded in Arabia and based on the teachings of Muhammad, who is called the Prophet. One who practices Islam is a Muslim. Muslims follow the Koran, the written revelation brought by Muhammad. The Muslim world population is estimated at more than 1 billion. Islam is the quickest growing religion.

There are three major factors taken from the research I have resulted to on why media biased on Islam occurs, one major factor; political propaganda. Political influence and propaganda is a main the objective for Islam to be publicized in an undesirable way as ‘terrorist’ and ‘outsiders’ in our current generation. Majority of the time when a politician or government party states something they are attempting to sell us their opinions or values and beliefs, it is simply how politics work. Political propaganda is when facts are purposely to gain interest from public opinion. In my primary data that I have conducted through my questionnaire, through my respondents I have obtained that many individuals who completed my questionnaire believe the politician are those who are influencing and initially starting the bias towards

Negative portrayals of Muslims in the mainstream media have led to widespread islamophobia in society. The way the media have illustrated Islam and Muslims in the media has influenced citizens to be misinformed about the true nature of both Muslims and Islam. As a result of the negative representations of Muslims in the media, societies views of Muslims have been adversely rendered and caused an unnecessary fear of Muslims in society. Exacerbation of islamophobia in the media has also led to a number of hate crimes towards Muslims (McQueeney, 2014). Instead of focusing on real news, medias often narrate stories

As depicted in the Appendix section, the result displays the frequencies of the words across the articles, and their percentages and the related document segments are explored to determine their portrayal of the Muslim in the face of the media of the United States of America. A qualitative cluster of words by MAXQDA yielded the most frequent collection of words in articles for each news media and they collectively provided insight of what was being talked about by referring to their retrieved coded segments in the software. Code matrix browser views provide the dendrograms for the analysis of the words both in descending frequency list as well as the alphabetically sorted list. CNN articles yielded a word count of 4172. The most

Islam is portrayed and is commonly accepted as the most violent and largest direct threat to the West. This is a generalization made by most of the West, but it is not particularly the West or the Islamic people’s fault. There is constant turmoil in Islamic countries in the Middle East and these conflicts are what make the news in the West. The only representation in the media that the Islamic nation gets is that of war. Though most Islamic people are not violent, the select few that do participate in terrorist groups give the rest of the Islam nation a bad image.

Islam and Muslims have been represented in the media for the past 40 years in a negative light, however, escalated since the 9/11 attacks and consecutive attacks throughout Europe such as London and Berlin. Muslims are usually highlighted within the media as ‘evil’ and ‘terrorists’, which ultimately categorises the entire religion in one group. Within the past 10 years there has not been a significant news story in Britain without mentioning Islam and War on Terror (Poole & Richardson, 2006). Elizabeth Poole and John E. Richardson discuss the nature of journalism and how it has shaped around Muslims and Islam, due to the climate of threat, fear and misunderstanding surrounding Islam within their book Muslims and the News Media. Additionally, this book aimed to examine the links between social and political contexts, who are the institutional and professional production parties and the content of media outputs, perceptions and responses of audiences in relation to the reporting of Islam and Muslims (Poole

Some people say don’t trust the media it’s a bunch of malarkey blown into proportion. I agree with that somewhat, and do understand that the media sometimes is malarkey but there is some truth in the media. In general the media is more negative than positive. Coming from a Muslim family life was good as a child with our community, our neighborhood and had no hatred toward the Muslim people. Then after a fate full day of 9-11-2001, tragic, and heartbreaking day many life changed. The media began to make the Muslim people a scapegoat. The media began to generalize and categorize the Muslim people with a terrorist organizations. The media in general has many other negative impacts on society but the generalization that was blowing up to proportion

The first thing that one should know and clearly understand about Islam is what the word "Islam" itself means. The religion of Islam is not named after a person as in the case of Christianity which was named after Jesus Christ, Buddhism after Gotama Buddha, Confucianism after Confucius, and Marxism after Karl Marx. Nor was it named after a tribe like Judaism after the tribe of Judah and Hinduism after the Hindus. Islam is the true religion of "Allah" and as such, its name represents the central principle of Allah's "God's" religion; the total submission to the will of Allah "God". The Arabic word "Islam" means the submission or surrender of one's will to the only true god worthy of worship "Allah" and anyone who does so is termed a

Islam is not a new religion but the final culmination and fulfillment of the same basic truth that God revealed through all His prophets to every people. For a fifth of the world's population, Islam is not just a personal religion but a complete way of living. Over a billion people from all races, nationalities and cultures across the globe are Muslim--from the rice farms of Indonesia to the deserts in the heart of Africa; from the skyscrapers of New York to the Bedouin tents in Arabia.