WESTERN MEDIA AND MUSLIMS

 Islam and Muslims have become the hot topic in western media. Western media has Depicted negative image of Muslims worldwide by showing their involvement in various Incidents like skyscraper terrorism, suicide bombers, airplane hijacking as well as with Offensive video clips. It is pertinent to mention here that negative construction about Islam and Muslims have been discussed by many scholars such as Edward Said’s Orientalism (1978), Covering Islam (1982), Islamic Peril (Karim, 2003), Fueling our Fear (Nacos & Torres-Reyna, 2006) and Islamophobia (Gottschalk & Greenberg , 2007), as well as Stockton (1994), Jack Shaheen (1997, 2001, 2008) and Salait (2006) have conducted their studies about the image of Muslims in Western Media. All these scholars have investigated various angles about the construction of Islam and Muslims in the media. This statement is strengthening day by day that “Islam is perhaps the most misunderstood religion in the world today and indeed throughout history. It is not only misunderstood by non-Muslims, but it is also misunderstood by Muslims themselves”. (Mohamad, 1997, p. 691). Few years in back, the same notion about western attitude towards Islam and Muslims had been revealed in “Orientalism” Edward Said that Islam was presented for a long time as a terror and threat or a form of subversion.   In his arguments, colonial discourse and dominant orientalists have been progressively constructing a negative frame of reference about Muslims (Said E. W., 1978)

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