The Importance And Uses Of Australian Journalism

Following the terrorist attacks of 9/11, Muslims everywhere began to be wrongfully persecuted and attacked. They have also since been denied equality in the workplace as “Americans with Muslim names have a harder time finding a job” and “American Muslims have experienced increased job discrimination since 2001” (Epstein 53). Without the ability to find a job, not only are Muslims effected in their daily lives, they are also unable to find a source of income, hindering them from supporting their families. Muslim religion can also cause further disturbances because there are several “law-abiding Muslims who are unfairly targeted and punished simply because they are Muslim” (qtd. in Epstein 52). This exemplifies the idea

It answers, as far as it can, questions as “Is Islam against the West?” and “Who defines moderate Islam post 9/11?”. In one of the case studies presented in the book, the author discusses the impact of 9/11 has had on British Muslim Identity, giving an overview of the presence of British Muslims, then looks at 9/11 and the impact it has had on the British Muslim community.

The power and consequently the responsibility of media, especially mainstream, is something that shouldn’t be underestimated. It often sets the agenda amongst the general public and is the reference point for the majority of the discussion surrounding it. For many, what they see and read in the media forms the basis of their opinions on most important topics. Despite warnings not to, many believe that everything they read in the media must be true.

The face of Islam in western society has changed in light of the recent Paris attacks on November 13, 2015. Muslims in Canada are effectively trying to distance themselves from the extremist group associated with the Paris attacks. Due to the prejudice response to the attacks, Muslim Canadians are speaking up against the extremist group ISIS as written in the article by Sheema Khan in the national newsprint ‘The Globe and Mail’. The title of this article is “In the fight against terrorism, Muslims must own their message”, The Globe and Mail, 18 November 2015 (http://bit.ly/1lNjmYr).

This was not the first attack on Muslims or Muslim allies following a terrorist attack in the United Kingdom. On March 23rd, a Muslim woman was photographed passing through the Westminster Bridge moments after the stabbing of an officer who refused to let an ISIS militant enter Parliament. Despite the woman stopping to ask witnesses if she could do anything to help, her photograph was posted online and Twitter users began to target her, accusing her of being both oblivious and unsympathetic to terrrorism. She responded by releasing a statement to Tell

In an article entitled “Ahmed Mohammad, handcuffed for making clock, Is Suing,” Daniel Victor investigates how muslim people are often discriminated and called bombers and terrorists. First, Victor discusses the facts of the case and how Ahmed was arrested. The reading also describes the fact that people often think that the words muslim and terrorist coincide, a form of discrimination. In addition, Victor tells us that Ahmed’s school suspended him, and he was getting countless death threats. Moreover, Victor states that the Mohammad family is suing Ahmed’s high school for falsely getting him arrested. Finally, Victor concludes that Ahmed along with his family moved to Qatar to turn over a new leaf and start a new life free of hatred and discrimination.

September 11th holds many hard and upset feelings around the world today. The harsh actions of Muslim extremists unfortunately completely changed the way Muslims are treated, especially in the United States. These events, exacerbated islamophobia. Unfortunately, “the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, connect Muslims and Islam to terrorism within the geographical borders of the United States.” (Byng) Although it has been over a decade since the attack, many still feel racist and discriminatory attitudes towards Muslims. Muslims are the targeted minority in the United States, “the 9/11 terrorist attacks shifted the social and political context for Muslims in the United States. Terrorism within the geographical borders of the United States carried out by Muslims places an identity at the center of national and global politics.” (Byng) The blame of the horrible terrorist attacks, rather than be placed on terrorists or religious extremist, has been placed on Islam in America. After September 11th, hate crimes towards Muslims skyrocketed, “the most dramatic change noted by the report was a more than 1,600 percent increase in reported hate crimes against Muslims -- a jump from 28 hate incidents in 2000 to 481 last year.”

Many people can mostly likely recall learning about McCarthyism, the making of false accusations of treason without proof generally focusing on the topic of communism. However, over the years that fear of communism, also known as communism under the bed has mutated to an entirely different but similar beast, Muslim-under-the-bed paranoia. This paranoia expresses the large growing issue of intolerance against those who follow the religion of Islam. Over the years due to a series of unfortunate events the peaceful religion of Islam and its followers have faced discrimination, danger, and disrespect. Fifteen years, six months, and seventeen days ago a tragedy struck new york when four members of an Islamic terrorist group known as al-Qaeda flew a

About two years ago I read Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s memoir “Infidel” and was immensely moved by her story, especially the atrocities she went through in her childhood in Africa and the way she struggled to flee from an oppressive life. At that time, I could not imagine that anyone (except fanatic Muslims), let alone victims of the same oppression that she was, would not share her feelings and views. However, the reading of Ian Buruma’s Murder in Amsterdam sheds light on bigger and obscure components of this story, which clearly influenced some people to disapprove her behavior – even Islamic women. Like in Hirsi Ali’s story, Ian Buruma also identifies nuances in the main episode of the book – an episode that at face value could be described as a

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

One of the most severe and notorious cases of bigotry in countries like Europe and the United states is the “fear of Islam”, the assumption that all Muslims are a terrorist threat to western societies. However, in 2013, Mehdi Hasan, a British political journalist, defended the notion that Islam is truly a peaceful religion during a contentious debate in Oxford University, in which he validly asks “Why is it [that] such a tiny minority of Muslims are interpreting their religion in the way that the opposition claim they are… Let’s assume they are 16,000 suicide bombers in the world, there aren’t, but let's assume for the sake of argument: That is 0.001% of the Muslim population globally, what about the other 99.99% of Muslims?” (“Mehdi Hasan - Islam Is A Peaceful Religion Debate In Oxford University." YouTube. YouTube, 12 Dec. 2013. Web. 04 June 2016.). In a circumstance in which the violent, extremists, or supremacist group becomes the fundamental representation of the “99.99%”, comes the instance in which generalizations rigidly divide whole groups and countries, when presumptions come to fallaciously label a vast population in the manner that is deleterious to the other “99.99%”, and countries shut their auspicious doors to the vulnerable “99.99%”. It is essential that individuals from a distinct religions and countries, with different perspectives, accord to understand the origin of their beliefs and, perhaps, dissolve the broad statements that have not only generated verbal conflict, but war and

We were told over and over again that four personnel, and possibly more, young Britain men from who are related to people who enter a country families were prepared to blow themselves up simply due to the fact of wrong thinking and hatred of Western ideology taught by Islamic radicals and strictly following religious laws. That had no reasoning is offered for why these and hundreds of more Muslim men were attracted to religious and notion of people feel

Ever since September 11, 2001 Americans along with the majority of the world’s population have been skeptical of Muslims. It’s a sad reality but it’s hard for people to think of a Muslim without linking them directly to terrorism. But these assumptions aren’t totally out of the blue—the Muslim’s religion, Islam, teaches a low tolerance for other religions and the Islamic government has no separation of church and state, so it’s only normal to assume that their government shall have a low tolerance as well—some however, immediately translate this into terrorism. Through the Islamic government and religion, relations with foreign countries, and separation amongst themselves it can be concluded that Islamic Fundamentalism is clearly a threat

Baker et al. (2013) discourse analysis shows that the largest amount of articles in the corpus concerning Muslims occurred a year after the London bombings. They argue that 'home- grown' events was of great importance to the British media, maybe even more than 9/11. This theory is contested by Zelizer and Allan (2002) who point out that the Guardian had its highest amount of sales the day after 9/11. This suggests that 9/11 may have had a bigger impact on British Muslims than 'homegrown terrorism'. However, weakness here is that this is just the data from one newspaper, it is not representative of them as a whole. Mythen et al. (2009) found that since the 7/7 bombings, the practices of Muslims has become the subject of speculation from security experts, policy makers, and media professionals. This constant speculation could leave Muslims feeling targeted by society for the actions of few. Hussain and Bagguley (2012) semi- structured interviews showed that some of the non-Muslims he interviewed identified Mosques as 'sites for terrorist organisations'. This suggests that Muslims are under suspicion in the UK. Selection bias was a potential concern because they only chose people from one city. Even though this will save on costs for the interviewer, the results are far less

The overview of the subject matter is that the big worry is that quality will decline Journalists are employed to check their facts and they get checked in turn by editors who question the reliability of their sources; we trust the paper’s brand not the individual journalist. Social media could be reliable, but how would we know? This is equally true then it comes to bias. But the fact of the matter is journalism is more credible and if we lose credibility in the information we get everything could fall for speculation. The authors’ thesis is we should not stand for the decline of journalism as a profession but support our right to have valuable information