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What Happens When People Actually Believe the Fox Network
Last Modified: 01 Sep 2011 08:27 GMT
If there is one American television network that makes consistent, hateful, anti-Muslim remarks, it is the Fox Network. Both the pundits on this American network and their counterparts in the British right-wing media also owned by Rupert Murdoch have consistently filled the airwaves with racist, hateful speech. They have often been called out for their lies, exaggerations, and misleading “news” reporting; however, they show no signs of stopping their campaign against Islam. While one underst ...
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It seems that American society has always had a boogieman figure, a fanged monster looming on the horizon that the whole of the United States can hate collectively. In the pre-World War II years it was the Germans and the Japanese; then, during the cold war, it was the Communists. However, since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Arab Muslims have increasingly come to replace the Red Scare as America's new fanged monster. While the September 11th attacks in 2001 were an important contributor to ...
Dog-whistle politics is a term that is used to refer to a political tactic in which racism is masked by the use of certain code words. For example, instead of calling President Barack Obama a “nigger”, certain elements of the opposition have taken to calling him “uppity” or even “Muslim.” In fact, it is a worrying state of affairs that far-right politicians have started to use “Muslim” as a thinly veiled disguise for racist ideas. Much like a dog whistle, this kind of rhetoric al ...
Islamophobia has been increasing in the United Kingdom in the last decade. The potential for violence and bigotry against Muslims in Britain has been quite worrying. It should be the mission of all Muslims and Islamic activists to stop Islamophobia in all aspects of British life. This article attempts to list some of the goals that the fight against Islamophobia attempts to achieve.
Practically from the time that European culture made contact with Islam for the very first time there has been fear and hostility in Europe against Islam. This fear has taken all kinds of forms as the centuries pass. It has not been the same every time, but going all the way back to the ninth century and before, there are examples of Islamophobia. Of a systematic fear of Islam and Muslims and the violence, prejudice, and bigotry that is a result of this fear. Some historical examples of Islamoph ...
In the recent decade there has been a rise of anti-Muslim sentiment. While many politicians will claim that there is no such thing and that Muslims suffer no persecution, there are many warning signs, most of which are being lived today in places like the United Kingdom and The Netherlands. This article will attempt to list some of the most worrying signs of anti-Islamic sentiment that should allow anyone to recognize Islamophobia as it occurs.
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Last Modified: 22 Dec 2011 06:45 GMT
Islam does not have a stellar reputation among the American public. While this can be traced back to decades of the systematic demonizing of Islam in the American media and politics, the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center turned it into a problem that was not subconscious. The attitude in the United States went from an underlying distrust of Muslims and Arabs into an active prejudice and persecution of Islam and its followers. While this in itself was enough to make life in the United ...
Last Modified: 22 Dec 2011 06:44 GMT
The rise in recent years of Islamophobia and prejudice against immigrants in Western Europe has been quite alarming. It is no coincidence that this xenophobia has coincided with a dire economic situation and world financial crash. If one checks thoroughly the economics of the different countries that are known for an Islamophobic right wing, like the United Kingdom or the Netherlands, one will find that the rises of Islamophobia and anti-Islam rhetoric are closely related to the state of the eco ...
Last Modified: 03 Sep 2011 03:23 GMT
It seems that American society has always had a boogieman figure, a fanged monster looming on the horizon that the whole of the United States can hate collectively. In the pre-World War II years it was the Germans and the Japanese; then, during the cold war, it was the Communists. However, since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Arab Muslims have increasingly come to replace the Red Scare as America's new fanged monster. While the September 11th attacks in 2001 were an important contributor to t ...
Last Modified: 03 Sep 2011 03:20 GMT
Dog-whistle politics is a term that is used to refer to a political tactic in which racism is masked by the use of certain code words. For example, instead of calling President Barack Obama a “nigger”, certain elements of the opposition have taken to calling him “uppity” or even “Muslim.”
Last Modified: 03 Sep 2011 03:17 GMT
There is no doubt that an anti-Muslim movement is on the rise. While in most regions in the West Muslims are not actively persecuted or abused, there are early warning signs of bigotry and racist that can result in violence or heinous acts eventually. Because of this, it is important for Muslims everywhere to speak out against forms of Islamophobia, before it is too late. Isolated incidents of anti-Muslim rhetoric and violence are not unexpected, but taken all together, these signs of Islamophob ...
Last Modified: 21 Aug 2011 05:17 GMT
In the last decade there seems to have been a competition in Britain among the pundits of the far right wing. The object of this competition to see who can come up with the most outrageous statements insulting the Muslim faith.
Last Modified: 20 Aug 2011 10:25 GMT
One would think that Islamophobia in the United States is mainly rooted in the 9/11 attacks. While these played the role of bringing it into the public eye and giving it an exposure it never had before, the seeds for widespread Islamophobia have been rooted in American society for decades. At least since the first part of the twentieth century.
Last Modified: 20 Aug 2011 10:23 GMT
Recently, Institute for Race Relations published a very interesting paper that sheds some light on the recent bouts of Islamophobia and the backlash against immigrants in many countries in Western Europe.
Last Modified: 20 Aug 2011 10:20 GMT
Making statements against Islam is a sure way to get some media attention in the United States, if you're a politician. The real problem are not the conservative pundits that are getting paid to bash Islam, it's the millions of people around the country that enable them to do so. If it were not a profitable practice, you can be sure that these people would not be engaging in rampant Islamophobia on the airwaves.
Last Modified: 20 Aug 2011 10:19 GMT
It is sad to read the almost daily attacks on the Daily Express against Muslims in the United Kingdom. It is almost as if the proprietor of this so-called newspaper is purposefully trying to promote hatred, or even violence against British Muslims.
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