Media Portrayal Of Islam As Terrorist

How the media portrays Islam as terrorist

In shaping societies’ opinions about different issues, the media plays a significant role. In the history of human, there has been an increasing reliance and dependence upon various forms of media such as television, radio, as well as print media as sources of information. The recent innovation of IT created the immediacy of the information like it never been in the past, and it revolutionized the media world. The most effective demonstration of how that media has a significant power in shaping people’s opinions would be that of the aftermath of the terrorists’ attacks of September 11. Therefore, this paper discusses and to demonstrate how the media portrays Islam image as terrorists and the impact

According to the prophet, Islam is the genuine faith which is designed by God to be one with common sense and the nature of humanity, and people should understand its true nature (Çapana22). Additionally, he believed that no one with common sense would be able to reject the religion of God, and to turn away from it. However, it is regretful that some anti-Islamic circles do not want Muslims to live in harmony with the non-Muslims, and they always strive to make it live in endless conflicts with other non-Muslim, and, therefore, they maintain the atmosphere of war and conflicts

This term originated in the UK in the early 1990’s, whereby it was coined by the Commission on British Muslims, and, therefore, the term was adopted from there. Islamophobia means simply the fear of Islam or the fear of Muslims (Said 40). In the past half century, Islam posed a threat to the world many ways, most particularly the economic leverage that it held on the world stage of oil-rich countries because a big number of those countries are Muslims in their traditions and cultures. This situation threatened the west and created an emergence of political movements claiming to be motivated by Islam and that used different tactics specifically terrorist. Hence the Islamophobia, which can be characterized by the belief that all or majority of Muslims are religious fanatics, and that they have violent tendencies towards other non-Muslims (Said,