Posted by: mehmetsoyer | November 23, 2007

Islam and Misperceptions

People have been misinformed about Islam and Muslims since the early 1980s by the mass media; furthermore, the media manipulated what was going on in the world regarding Islam. After 9/11, newspapers in the US featured headlines, such as: “This Is a Religion War”; “Yes, This Is About Islam”; “Muslim Rage”; “The Deep Intellectual Roots of Islamic Terror”; “Kipling Knew What the US May Now Learn”; “Jihad 101”; The Revolt of Islam”; and so on (Seib, 2004, ¶ 18). It can be said that this opinion is true because before September 11, Muslims had already been displayed as cruel terrorists in some Hollywood movies, debating programs or advertisements on TVs. Therefore, many western people think of Muslims as bloodthirsty fanatics. Muslim people have been shown as those who hate Western culture (Maged, 2005). It is urgent that Islam be introduced accurately to the world, but it is not possible due to the fact that policymakers, such as politicians, academicians, lobbies and state-within-a-state, such as Illuminati that controls the world never seek the truth. Besides that, the analysis of Jihad is distorted by the mass media that policymakers control; as a consequence of that, popular fallacy regarding Islam is dictated, so the mass media and policymakers encourage people to be convinced of having an enemy.

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