Media Influence On Muslim Identity

Muslims are often classed as terrorists and nonconformist, solely looking to cause collateral damage in core countries. They are often characterized with groups like ISIS, through many of them do not have a connection to the organization. Muslim citizens have become notorious after the 9/11 attacks, as they are discriminated by every racial group. America is where people could become successful, no matter their racial heritage. Muslims should be given the chance to become political leaders and social conformist.

These open discriminatory statements can have devastating effect the Muslim communities and our country as a whole. In the wake of this tension in our country my Research Methods class used the tried lost letters experiment to try measure the attitude toward Muslims in Columbus and its surrounding areas.

Stereotypes have a pernicious effect. They stress upon the dissimilarities between people as religion, ethnicity, gender and race. For instance, The American journalists always report Muslims as a totally different religious group. Moreover, They function as tools for proving, keeping and reinforcing social orders as they are made by a given society’ members to maintain their social standing by grouping themselves as “us” and exclude the others under the label “them”( Schonemann 30). Furthermore, Stereotypes inform us what the people of a given social group are like and what their behaviours are ( Schonemann 30).

These subtle actions are forms of aggressions based out of contempt, hated, and fear towards Muslim Americans. Similarly, since 9/11, there has been an increase in the monitoring and surveillance of Muslim Americans. In a study on the emotional and behavioral responses Muslim Americans have to

So after McCarthy made these statements, it almost made like a ripple effect by having everyday people, being accused of people that “suspected” that they were communists as well. And as a result of everyday people being accused, they would be put on a blacklist. In today’s world, the person that has caused others to be accused is Osama Bin Laden. The people that play the role of the accuser, is the American government. And the people who are accused are Muslim Refugees from the middle east.

Rough Draft Pre-AP English 10 Kevin Richer “Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future, and renders the present inaccessible.” Maya Angelou. Racism plays a big part in the history of our country. It is what brought out good leaders, such as Martin Luther King Jr. and Fredrick Douglas. It has also caused people to be segregated and enslaved. Racism, the belief that one race is superior to another, has left a big stain on the carpet of American history.

Culture is about learning how a certain group of people are by sharing ideas, beliefs, and values. They characterize themselves as unique and special because of their unique culture. Moreover, we view the world through a racial lens that portrays the world as colors such as black, brown, white, yellow and more. The way people view groups of different people based on the color of their skin, ancestral origin, or their cultural upbringing have generated stratification between certain groups of people. Our world now has so much hate and has even experienced growing numbers of terrorism because they want to make right what they construe is socially or politically wrong.

Many people unfairly judge and stereotype others in the Muslim culture based on the actions of certain members in their society. They begin to think that all Muslims are the same, which is not true, which is a message conveyed in A Thousand Splendid Suns. In this novel, the author, Khaled Hosseini, portrays the different Muslim lifestyles by using fictional characters in possible scenarios. Throughout the story, the contrast between the roles of men and women prove that their ways of living and their personal beliefs are not all the same. The author used the men in the story as devices to prove the differences in their beliefs and actions, contradicting the stereotype that all Muslim men are mean, controlling, or terrorists.

The Media and The Manufacture of Deviance 800 words, Assessment Weighting 30% Briefly define the concept of ‘moral panic’ Cohen argues the concept of moral panic is a person or group that becomes defined as a threat to society to a person’s social value and their interests. Moral panic is fear that comes from a group or issue that causes panic within society, but it’s believed this fear and reaction is exaggerated and this is felt and reacted to by the public forms of media such as newspapers, articles and live news etc; knife crime and islamophobia. “Implicit in the use of two words moral panic is the suggestion that the threat is to something held sacred by or fundamental to the society” (Thompson, Kenneth 1998) Cohens definition of moral panic is an over exaggerated reaction by groups

Today’s world is basically run by the media itself or social media. Racial profiling is a very sensitive topic nowadays to many people. This topic really falls heavy under discrimination. Discrimination is where there is unfair treatment to people because of their group membership. (Brym, 2013) The thing is about races is that there’s so much stereotypes about them.