Media and the Religion of Islam

Media is an historic player in our contemporary edict development such(prenominal) as generating discussions active antithetical issues (Aly, 2007). Our serviceman can be seen through different perspectives. Media fall in had supremacy to characterize domain in certain defined ways. Our perception about world is greatly shaped by things represented to us by media. This representation could be constructive or destructive. For instance, Islamic argon unceasingly portrayed adversely in media and 9/11 terrorist attack has exaggerated this fig between media (Patterson, 2009). Hence by providing two examples, which are how contradict perception about Moslem is constructed by informational or newsworthiness media and how entertainment media outlets play their pause in promoting the biased content about Muslims, this essay pass on illuminate how media is portraying Muslim around the world which has created islamophobic world. Media has continuously marginalised minority r adical (Curran & Seaton, 1988). Similarly, it has always constructed negative image about minorities (Curran & Seaton, 1988). According to McQuail(2005) media has created a special mechanism which establishes that who lead be represented and how information will be characterized. Hence, media can importantly command all the issues of our society such as state of war (McQuail, 2005). However, Schlesinger (1991) has stated that there is no single definition of whatsoever issue. All the influential media cooperations are controlled by westbound people. Saeed (1989) has stated that dominated group has always constructed negative image about minority. Thus Muslim as a minority are becoming victim of this course. For instance, Peter Gottschalk and Gabriel Greenberg (2007) have create verbally in their book that in majority of American peoples charge of Islam or Islamic refining does not arise from their private experience or this is not individual fear such as acrophobia. Actual ity, people discriminate negative stereotypical portrayals of Islam and Mus...