Islam and socialmedia

 Today's world is ruled by the internet. Social media plays an important role in our society. It changed the nature of communication.The role and effectiveness of social media in creating awareness and motivating users on various social, political, economic and religious issues has become a hot topic of discussion. The content available on social media creates some new problems in the society due to its unauthentic and unreliable information. Various organizations, individuals and social media activists use this hot source to spread anti-Islamic sentiments among netizens. The study of Islam on the Internet has developed rapidly since the 1990s with the advent of communication technologies. We can find that Islam is the only religion on social media which is being portrayed in a negative fashion. Academicians and activists are gaining their benefits of political affiliation through academic freedom and curricular activism and use their academic freedom for spreading hate and prejudice against Muslims. The political affiliations make them active, they are also capitalized on particular form of islamophobia. Such groups using internet for their purpose to show their reaction against Islam and Muslims. Muslims’ activities in cyberspace , construction of Islamic knowledge through internet, discussion on contemporary Islamic issues on internet through Muslim communities, cyber councilors, online interpretative authorities, online fatwas, use of internet by Muslim communities, discussion about hijab cyberspace by Muslims, or use of internet by jihadi groups, use of internet for spreading terrorism by Muslim organizations. But in very few studies the misrepresentation of Islam on internet have been investigated. To spread the hate against Muslims through social media has become the major factor for destroying the peace and harmony among society