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In his essay, The Media Stereotype Muslims as Terrorists, Robert Fisk, describes racism in the Muslim and Jew community. Fisk’s purpose is to convey the idea to stop the typical stereotyping of racism. He adopts an imitative tone in order to get the point across. This article is effective in persuading the reader through the use of logos and pathos. In his essay, Fisk starts off using a personal experience when he was visiting a concentration camp at Manjaca and an officer asked an inappropriate question that offended him. It made him feel upset because the officer asked him something racist. He continues to talk about a debate that happened in Ditchley park [Oxfordshire, England] claiming a certain group of people have objected and stereotyped …show more content…

The author uses this to get the reader’s attention by having an emotional appeal of what our cartoons and films contain. To add on, he is saying when he arrived to the Middle East about 20 years ago that he saw a movie and it portrayed Arabs as slave traders, murderers, child-molesters and sadists. He suggests that this is the reason why editorials and reporters call Arabs terrorists. Another set of slang terms lingers as the essay comes to an end “…scumbag, son-of-a-bitch, a fly in a piece of shit, animals, bastards, sucking pigs, stateless savages, desert skunks and, of course terrorists” (Fisk 3). This was said when a professor, Jack Shaheen, provided a list of expressions about what is in Hollywood …show more content…

Imitative means repeating the idea over and over again. The whole essay he repeats the idea of stereotyping. Imitative is a good tone chosen for the essay because Fisk wants the racists to know why they get offended all the time. Closer towards the end of the essay, he gets aggravated “that a Palestinian who murdered innocent Israelis was in our reports as a terrorist-which he surely was- while an Israeli who murdered 29 innocent Palestinians in a Hebron mosque was merely an extremist, a zealot or (my favourite) a member of the Jewish underground?” (Fisk 2) The author is confused because if a Palestinian murders innocent Israelis they are considered terrorists in his opinion that is wrong. He proceeds with thought that the possibility of terrorism is not reasonable.
Overall, this essay contains a great amount of two appeals, logos and pathos. These ideas cooperate to get the attention of the racists. He unloads lots of negative evidence, hoping that the racist can change their mind. The inappropriate names the Muslims get from movies, press, and articles, Fisk thinks that might stop the racists slurs. The tone had a big part of Fisk essay, without setting the tone the essay would not be as strong as it did. Overall, the essay did prove the purpose of stereotyping Muslims in ways of appeals and

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