User:Aliahmed.57/Islamophobia in the media

Islamophobia in the media is negative coverage of the people of Islam. The media projects misleading and hostile stories about Muslims, many times as a political force. There is an intense fear against Muslims and the media around the world drives this fear. There is a disproportionate amount of coverage for the religion of Islam, especially when compared to other religions. The portrayal of Muslims is primarily negative, including the abuse of women, terrorism, and being a violent religion. The way people respond to media discussions create Islamophobia. This questions the severity and impact of the media’s rhetoric towards Islam and topics relating to Islam.

Historical Context
Islam has gotten a very bad reputation after the suicide on September 11th 2001, where extremists had taken over two planes and crashed them into the World Trade Center, killing approximately 2,977 people. After this the president George W Bush had initiated the PATRIOT Act which gave the ability to invade citizens privacy by listening in to phone calls and reading emails following Bush's announcement on the war on terrorism.

The United States had launched something called the Invasion of Afghanistan after the September 11 attacks in late 2001. The United States had aimed to destroy al-Qaeda, a extremist terrorist group who act on the religion of "Islam they had their operations take place in Afghanistan and wanted to remove The Taliban from their reign. A close ally that came to the aid of The United States was the United Kingdom. The US invasion of Afghanistan has been going on since 2001 to present day.

Islamophobia in the media
The editor-in-chiech of Aslan Media, the media is the reason that Islamophobia spread across the world, according to Nathan Lean. ABDURABB Muslims are put in a negative light and protrayed negatively.

Negative content was punblished in Newsweek and Time. There is much negative content regarding Al-Qaida, the Taliban, terrorirists, and women’s mistreatment in Muslim countries. RANE

The Illisory Truth Effect is that the frequent repetition of something that can convince people of something that could be wrong. Mixingmemory

The Washington Post conducted a study examining coverage of Muslims, Jews, Catholics, and Hindus, finding that 78% of the articles that were about Muslims were negative, nearly twice that of Catholics. (Bleich)

Terrorism was often cross referenced with Muslim. Two British scholars, Egorova and Tudor, suggested that expressions like “Islamic terrorism” is related to Islam, so those who are non-Mulsim have a negative perception of Islam. (Tudor)

Films like The Siege, from 1998 (WILKINS), stereotypes Muslims with terrorism.

United States
43% of Americans felt prejudice against Muslims, according to a 2010 Gallup poll, nine years after 9/11, all because of what was displayed by the media. (BOWE)

There is an Islamophibia industry. LEAN

Between 2008 and 2013, $206 million dollars was funed to thiry-three groups to prompt prejudice against Islam. (KAZEM)

Europe
In 2015, the ENAR (European Network Against Racism) conclucuded that in the media, Muslim women are supressed because they wear a hijab. They are consistently targets of abuse on all social media platforms. (FORGOTTEN WOMEN)

In the Netherlands, 90% of Islamophobic victims in 2015 were Muslim women. (FORGOTTEN WOMEN)

In Great Britain, 64% of the public gets their information about Islam thorugh the media, causing hostility. (FORGOTTEN WOMEN)

The Turkish think-tank released an article that there are minimal news that favor groups that are Muslim. (Bayar)

Only 0.5% of journalists in the United Kingdom are Muslim. (Versi)

Policiticans use Islamophobic language which is hate speech towards Muslims. (Bayar)

== Jan Kovar wrote an article stating that during the migration crisis in Europe from 2013-2016, the Muslim migrants were considered a security threat to the country. This occured in 77% and 67% of the Czech and Slovak news stories. (Kovar) ==

United Kingdom
Peter Oborne of The Independent in 2008 wrote that British tabloids highlighted crimes comitted by Muslims. (Oborne).

John E. Richardson’s study found that 85% of mainstream newspaper articles regarded Muslims homogeneous mass who were imagined as a threat to British society. (Richardson)

Social Media
Common forms of abuse directed at Muslims on Facbook include: 15% Muslim women were a security threat, 13% Muslims should be deported, 12% Muslims were potential terrorists, 11% Muslims were at war with non-Muslims and 9% Muslims were rapists. (Awan)

Lack of representation
Few muslims are even represented within the media, especially discussing anything that could directly affect Muslims. Less than 8% of guests invited to discuss President Trump's controversial Executive Order 13769, banning immigration from seven Muslim countries, were Muslim. The networks included CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC. (ABDURABB)

Media Personalities
The Guardian wrote the obituary for Italian journalist, Oriana Fallaci, that said she was "notorious for her Islamaphobia". (McGregor)

Arabphobia Stats
Out of 119 reports on Fox News, Special Report, Lary King Live, and Late Edition, 50 reports were that on the war on terror, 30 on socio-eco crisis, 32 on politics, and 5 on religion. 0 reports on arts and culture and on development. (Pervez)