Summary Of Islamophobia In America

The abuse, stereotyping and scapegoating of Australian Muslims is on the rise in 2016 and the media isn’t helping.

In this century we learned from our media and top 1% that Islam is violent, doesn’t support freedoms such as women, religious, and speech. It’s an enemy of all Christian nations and democracy in itself. Islamic State of Iraq and Syria is another radical group of Islam that was majority funded by the Sen. Hillary Clinton and CIA that gave illegal arms shipments to Libyan jihadist (war with unbelievers) (Source 2). We see it on our news stations every day with terror attacks, the war on ISIS, and In Paris ,France, they had a terror attack that slaughter and wounded hundreds of innocent civilians that were carrying peaceful civilian activity. Another terrorist attack happened on September, 11, 2011. It killed four Americans including Ambassador Chris Stevens. It was revealed that it was due to a YouTube video, even though it had no relations to it, and later on it was confirm a Terrorist attack during that election year. The media’s agenda help create the fear of Muslims call Islamophobia.

Since September 11th, the media is serving as a huge influencer on the Western civilization about how they view Muslims and Islam. The media has played a pivotal role in how the West has gained their impressions. In the article, “The Utility of Islamic Imagery in the West,” J.A. Progler discusses how the West utilizes images of Islam and Muslims to benefit themselves. The media have represented Muslims as “terrorists.” Progler says,” drawing upon the historical and cultural catalogue of assumptions and perceptions about Islam, these experts and spokespeople pick and choose the appropriate images to serve their purposes.” (Progler, 2) For example, images of Islam have created the negative perception that they oppress their women and encourage terrorism, just to name a few. With the recent attack in Paris and the San Bernardino shooting, presidential candidates have used these opportunities to show that all Muslims are a threat to

Conceptualizations of Islam in the US are not only often incorrect; they are alarmingly easily adapted by citizens who lack a fundamental knowledge of the tenements of Islam and its traditions. Portrayals of Islam in the US vary wildly, from those who refuse to acknowledge that Islam can be weaponized, to those who refuse to recognize that Islam itself is not innately terroristic. In the time of President Trump it is the conceptions of Islam from the far right that have come to the forefront of American foreign policy and media streams. Unfortunately, these conceptions have countless misperceptions, biases, and are supported by invented evidence. This trend is painfully apparent in Sean Hannity’s report:

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Islam is a religion practiced by a large and diverse population around the world in various forms, making it impossible to truly condense into a uniform group. Islamophobia, however, does so by presuming that all its practitioners share some sort of consistent culture and ideology (Semati, 2010, 267). Rather than focusing on traditional biological concepts of race, Islamophobia—a form of cultural racism—connects general physical, ethnic, national, and religious traits to produce the category of “Brown” (Semati, 2010, 265); that is to say, the flexible “brown” category allows for several characteristics to be lumped together and presented as a more easily identifiable “race” in line with more traditional concepts of racism. The media plays a large role in constructing this singular image through the representations of the Brown-Muslim category it depicts to the public. By reducing many different people to the homogeneous label of “Muslims” or “Brown,” it presents a mass-generalization from which the public in turn constructs their own understanding of this “Other” group. Furthermore, Said’s Covering Islam notes that Western media’s representations of Islam and Muslims are

Once upon a time, Jews were stereotyped as one nationality, radical Islamic faith was stitched to men of Muslim descent, Buddhists were Asian and Caucasians were closely associated with Christianity. Today anyone can be of any faith, and because of this new revival in belief systems, the age-old problem of unjustified racism on account of religion or stereotyped religion has become even more powerful. Strikes targeted the Muslim community, or really anyone in a burka or a turban, have been increasing rapidly since the 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. Islamophobia is now a wide spreading epidemic that is based on faulty fact and stereotypes.

Although the 1997 Runnymede Trust report has its limitations due to the diverse and sometimes clashing perspectives, it gives the term a relatively honed sense. It labels Islamophobia as “a useful shorthand way of referring to dread or hatred of Islam—and, therefore, to fear or dislike of all or most Muslims” (Runnymede Trust 1997, 1), but makes the distinction between disagreeing with Islamic doctrine and practices of Muslim states, which it deems as “legitimate criticism” and true Islamophobia, which it defines as “unfounded prejudice and hostility” (p. 4). The report not only sees Islamophobia as a collection of negative sentiments but also extends it to “the practical consequences of such hostility in unfair discrimination against Muslim individuals and

Since the horrific events of 9/11, Islam and Muslims especially has been the crux of much censure and debated in the media. Muslims have been widely discussed by themes of ‘migration’, ‘terrorism’, and ‘war’. In the meta-analyses on the representation of Muslims and Islam in the media between 2000-2015, there is the rise of Orientalist discourses in many mainstream media channels. The relationship between Western nations and Muslims has been reinterpreted as divided societies. Thus, the ‘clash of civilizations’ proposition has gained acceptance in intellectual debates and media coverages. There is also a dominant antagonistic view about Islam and Muslims in many western countries (Ahmed and Matthes 2016). The meta-study and recent many researches show that Muslims and Islam tend to be negatively framed, which consequently led to the domination of the mass media via displays of fear and anger as well as anti-Muslim sentiments (Bail 2015). In this context, Muslim intellectuals have faced fierce criticism from various journalists and academics. For instance, prominent Muslims intellectuals Tariq Ramadan has been criticized by doublespeak for general western society and internal Muslims communities (Fourest 2008) and Khaled Abou El Fadl has been blamed by being a stealth Islamist due to his works on Islam and politics

Once this shift in the public 's perception occurred mostly because of media coverage, criticism and adverse treatment of Muslims went from being considered bigotry or unlawful religious discrimination to being patriotic, and national security policy (Simon Haddad, Hilal Khashan). At the end, it the burden of this crime were put on the few million Muslims in the United States, who were to pay for this security with their civil rights and liberties taken away from them. Every time an act of terror or shooting occurs, Muslims closely watch the news with extreme fear praying that the suspect is not Muslim. “This is not because these terrorists are likely to be Muslim but rather because in the instances where they happen to be, we see amplified mass media coverage and extreme unjustified hatred towards Muslims”.(Omar Analtor )

Since Islamic extremism is becoming an alarming concern within countries, there has been an increase in the prejudice against Muslims. Data received from United States citizens represent a concern of Islamic extremism that went from 36 to 53 percent, whereas in Europe, the average increase was 27 percent (Poushter, 2015). This exemplifies the idea of Islamophobia. To fully comprehend how attitudes toward the Islamic religion have changed in the past decade, one must consider the history of Islam, and the societal and cultural changes pertaining to Islam. Islamophobia is becoming a global matter, and one must be aware to understand religious conflicts, as it can immensely influence society.

Islam is the most complete way of life. Islam means to surrender to the will of God and obedience . peace, purity, submission and obedience is truly what islam is about.

In contemporary, Islamophobia has been stimulated by public stress over immigration and the assimilation of Muslim minorities taken with majority cultures in Europe. These stresses have been intensifying by the consequences of the economic crash of 2007 and the get higher of famous nationalist politicians. They have also been offense by high report terrorist attacks done by Muslim extremists.

But as we say Muslims empire was scary because it was powerful so in beginning of the eighteenth century with the decreasing of the Ottomans power and the rapid increase of European empire powers, Islam was not that much scary anymore and Islamophobia was disappeared gradually.