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When they launched the Al-Jazeera international, their assumed audience became the arabs and the world at large (Cushion and Lewis 2010).... Judging from the reasons as to why the satellite news were formed, it is evident that the Al-Jazeera the main interest were the arabs and more so the people of Qatar and that is why the media house reports ‘bad' things on other countries.... The construction of news to their assumed audience however does not reflect the main aim of launching the media house....
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Another factor of Muslim presence in western states can be attributed to the colonial era where many Muslims from colonies controlled by the west were able to migrate to Western countries.... The number of immigrants thus far has shrunk after the backlash of terrorist acts and stern immigration laws, these acts also hardened the life of a common Muslim living in western countries (Ernst 131-135).... (Ernst 2-4) Muslims across the world have faced hardships, not only in western countries but also in their own countries by oppressors and clashing ideologies of sects prevailing within the community....
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It has been observed that all Muslims are arabs and all the Arabs are Muslims which is a wrong conception.... This essay "Problems Arabic media Faces Today" presents the different problems that the Arab problems are facing; social, cultural, and political.... Culture can be known as the identity of a person and the most important task of a country's media is to show facts concerning their culture.... nbsp;Cultures provide sound remedies that are sometimes very much beneficial for the media but it does not happen always because the human response to the events is not always the same....
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In recent years, Muslim societies have had a number of reform movements that were completely alien to their historical contexts, like socialism, secularism, and nationalism.... These reform movements and programs were imposed on them from the outside world.... There is no doubt that… 54).... There are several movements that have focused on partial reform but failed to make any real change to Muslim society as a whole....
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While watching the movie “Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People” I was perplexed by how the western media has stereotyped Arabs.... This is because the movie caused me to be interested in the reasons why the western media was stereotyping Arabs about terrorism....
While watching this movie, I realized that the western media is interested more in profits than the negative social, political, and religious consequences that they caused within the world in general....
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However, the hate crimes perpetrated against arabs and muslims during the war on terror were not confined to physical or verbal assault.... Indeed, Welch (2012) claims that prejudice against Islam and muslims constitute the last form of racism that is sanctioned.... In addition, hate crimes perpetrated against arabs and Middle Easterners rose by more than 1600% in the period after the American government began its anti-terror operations, while at least 20 people who appeared to be Arabs or Muslims were murdered (Welch, 2012)....
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To better the image of arabs and muslims in the west, there is a need for persistent effort from the Muslims in both Islamic regions and Muslim communities in the West.... The representation of arabs and Islam related events since the beginning of the 21st century has taken a drastic change in both quantity and quality.... Muslim and Media Muslim and Media Introduction The representation of arabs and Islam related events since the beginning of the 21st century has taken a drastic change in both quantity and quality....
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For the most part, this series looks upon Muslims as terrorists; a depiction that is not accurate because only a small percentage of muslims in the world are even sympathetic to acts of terrorism.... The numerous flashbacks that are shown in almost all episode of the series depict muslims in an essentially biased manner; showing them either torturing their captives or praying.... One of the most popular and influential television series that has shown Islam in a negative light is Homeland; a series that not only shows the American biased perception of Islam and muslims, but also generalizing the latter as terrorists....
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