Terrorism And The Fear Of The Media And Terrorism

This is a 39% increase in the Australian Muslim growth rate since 2001, alarmingly, surpassing Australia’s current total population projections, however, although Islam is the fastest growing religion internationally, it is not domestically and Muslims are still an under represented minority in Australia. The above mentioned figures are an example as to how statistics can be manipulated into the wrong context to fit a media publications own construction of Muslim discourse. The contemporary (post 2000) links between Muslims and terrorism made by the media were the unprecedented widespread attacks in the United States that occurred on 11 September 2001. These events set the scene for the Australian medias role in implicitly and explicitly identifying Muslims as the other, equating Muslims [and Islam] with the threat of terrorism (Anne Ally,2007). An example of the equating of Islam with terrorism is Sharia Law. The media often associates this holy law of Islam documenting the expectations of Allah, and the positive principles followed by billions of Muslims of different backgrounds and cultures globally through scenes of brutality and oppression of the people in the conflicted middle eastern region linking it to the corrupted Jihadist fighters

On the covers of newspapers and on the screens of many, the story of the Boston marathon hits the ground. Twenty six thousand eight hundred thirty nine people from all over the world came to run in this awe-inspiring marathon. Until the tragedy strikes right in their faces. The explosions, injuring scores of people, effected the lives of innocent civilians. Cheers were replaced with screams, sirens, and the first responders providing aide to the citizens. This was a brutal event just like the one on September 11, 2001. Instead of using seclusion towards political and economical reasons for events, the mass medias perceptive towards incidents involving the religion Islam has created the stereotypical thought in society in which we live in today.

Since 9/11/2001 hate crimes related to Islam-phobia has risen to nearly 481 and since has stayed above 100 in subsequent years. In 2015, 2% of hate crimes are anti-Islamic. Many times people are attacked for wearing hijabs, and even non-Islamic, Arabic people that wear hijabs are attacked because of their "terrorist" appearance. This is a ludicrous thing, comparing a group of millions of faithful followers to 22 extremists. Now, every day, Islamic followers live in fear of being attacked for their beliefs; this fear escalates one day a year—9/11.

Finally, 9/11 developed a lot of discrimination towards Muslims. Selby expressed in her research that negative stereotyping of Muslims or “Islamophobia” in Canada from media arguably became increasingly after 9/11. Not just that, fourteen focus groups across the country revealed a sense of horror at the terrorist attacks as well as distress about unfair negative stereotyping of Muslims and difficulties in travel (Sebly, 2015). The research tells us how the media instructed Canadians to portray Muslims as terrorists and be cautious around them. As a matter of fact, Canadians started to hate Muslims and tried to eliminate them from places as much as possible. Accordingly, most of the women who wore ‘hijab’ got negative comments from public and

One of the most widely discussed issues in the U.S. Muslim community is the negative image of Islam in the American media, an issue that was cause for concern even before 9/11. While appeals to the media for accuracy and fairness continue, newspaper headlines regularly print the words “Islam” and “Muslim” next to words like “fanatic,” “fundamentalist,” “militant,” “terrorist” and “violence.” Uses of the term “jihad” in television programs

Terrorism can be defined as the use of criminal violence to try to force a government to change. It can also be defined as the use of criminal violence that groups or individuals use to seek revenge and cause heartache amongst those that they want to hurt/threaten. Most terrorist groups prefer to target people for a more dramatic response and celebrate when the media broadcasts their violent acts on television and throughout the news. Lately, more and more deadly terrorist acts have been captured on film and broadcasted in all parts of the world. Sixty years ago recordings of terroristic acts didn’t spread through the world as quickly as they do now because technology wasn’t as advance. That is just one of the

Terror attacks committed by Islamic extremists resulted in the dehumanization towards the Muslim community and gave rise to a Muslim terrorist frame. From the images media portrayed of

With the American people showing ever increasing interest in Muslims since the attacks on America, it was inevitable that this would change the way Muslims would be viewed in the United States. The 9/11 attacks - carried out by nineteen Islamic extremists - have no doubt changed how Muslim-Americans are perceived in this country, and those feelings have simmered for 15 years now. Even though a stigma against the Muslim American community had been growing in the US because of wars and conflicts, the attacks on the world trade centers in New york marked an era that ushered in mass stereotypes and disenfranchisement for Muslim Americans (Bakalian, Anny, and Mehdi Bozorgmehr). According to Mehdi Bozorgmehr and Anny Bakalian, an Associate Director and Mehdi Bozorgmehr is Co-Director of the Middle East and Middle Eastern American Center at the Graduate Center, immigrants from the Middle East are familiar with stereotypes and discrimination in the United States. In backlash 9 ⁄ 11, they examined the harassment, discrimination, and hate crimes committed by individuals against members of the targeted communities or people who look ‘‘Middle Eastern.’’Islam has established a niche in America. Estimates vary, but there are about 4 million Muslims in the United States and Canada. Although a major portion of this community is made up of immigrants, there has been a steady increase in the number of Americans accepting Islam (History of Islam). According to Karine Walther, an Assistant

This paper takes a closer look at Islamophobia in the United States. Islamophobia is defined as irrational fear of Islam and Muslims. Is Islamophobia real or are Muslims, as some suggest, simply taking advantage of the religious freedoms guaranteed in our Constitution and the tradition of pluralism and acceptance. Others say Islamophobia exists because Muslims refuse to integrate into American society. Yet others will say Muslims refuse to integrate because of Islamophobia. “American Islam” and “mainstream Muslim” are both terms that have become highly politicized and must be understood specific to time and place. The media also plays a role in catering to the fear of Islam and Muslims by Americans. In this paper I will go into beliefs, as

There is a problem in the modern world with the way we look and understand images having to do with Islam. Efforts taken by the media to share images which creates a positive perspective on Islam, are rare. Instead images that cause the public to connect Muslims to terror and radicalism are common because the media utilizes punctum’s such as, an image of a young victim of a terror attack, to tap into ones emotions, gaining the public’s attention. the reason why the media cares about increasing their audience is because the world revolves around money and unfortunately the world has become so used to opening up the newspaper in the morning and seeing negative images, that positive images don’t appeal to media moguls. An important

Is terrorism over-reported in the media? Do newspapers and reporters choose to speak too much of terrorist attacks? The Editorial Board of USA Today seems to think so, arguing that news organizations feed off of our fear of terrorism, fueling our fright by dramatizing and over-covering stories of terrorist attacks. They choose to respond to President Trump’s accusation of the media undercovering terrorism by attempting to convince and inform both liberals and conservatives of the problems with media. They strengthen their argument using scholastic diction and facts, creating an overall informative and reasonable tone.

Life in the Middle East is heavily based on religion much like Christianity, which is very common here.Clothing in that region is conservative because it is influenced by religion, which can also be compared to Christianity. Having a dress code in relation to times of worship is common in all religions. However, it is common that terrorism is compared to the religion of Islam, which results in the discrimination of this religious choice of clothing. This discrimination has lead to several hate crimes against people of Arab descent. In one incident in Chapel Hill North Carolina, three university students were shot and killed. According to Jonathan M. Katz and Richard Perez-Pena, two of these students were newlyweds and one was the wife’s sister. They were also “high achievers who regularly volunteered in the area”(Katz and Perez-Pena). This tragedy spread awareness to many Muslim hate crimes, sparking the trend “#MuslimLivesMatter”. Hate crimes against people of Arab descent is very common. Muslim Public Affairs Council states, “According to the FBI, anti-Islamic incidents were the second least reported hate crimes prior to 9/11, but following 9/11, they became the second highest reported among religion-bias incidents. From pre-9/11 to post-9/11, a growth of 1600% took place”(“Statistics”). This proves that this stereotype linking terrorism to Islam has been very oppressive to Muslim people. According to

People have fear of the truth, since the earliest of human history. Whether it is recognizing their own or others’ flaws, or simply seeing what they received on their latest test, this fear leaves many mortified and is prominently used for impact on the news. Universally, people seek the companionship of others to share the same comfort and security. Due to this human desire to find self-security, people including the media use bias to suggest danger in order to invoke the interest of an audience towards a narrow line of information and away from the full picture. Fear through bias shown in the media is what “those in power decide to use scare tactics, using fear as a tool to get us to agree with what they want to do (Sibiski, 2016).” Throughout

Every time an attack on Western soil occurs, widespread outrage disseminates. Within seconds social media is flooded, tweets such as ‘prayforparis’ immediately start trending. Mainstream media outlets are quick to place the blame on Muslims, usually without evidence. Because of this, whenever there is a significant event developing, we as a society are conditioned to instantaneously connect certain words (bomb, armed gunman, etc.) with Islam. Despite the fact that in

Countless stereotypes and negative representations exist about Islam by the Western media in specific the news. It is known that media is very powerful source that shapes people 's minds and opinions. For some people, the news is the only source they acquire their information through, especially when it comes to other cultures and populations.