Orientalism by Edward Said is a text of cultural studies which challenges the concept of orientalism or the difference between east and west.
In reviewing these texts you need to
explore:
•Are
media representations of Islam, biased, balanced or fair
The medias representation of Islam is certainly not balanced, they are portrayed in a very negative light and can never be seen to do anything right. A few years ago there was a front page headline of a newspaper about an Muslim owned convenience store where the toilet was just a whole in the ground and it was a total outrage. This story was later proven totally false and the paper was to apologise or be taken to court. The apology was only a small story somewhere in the back pages out of sight. The media are very unfair in there representation of Islam and they're also too snobbish and arrogant to ever really admit when they make false accusations.
•To
what extent is Western mediation of Islam a reflection of Orientalism/Islamophobic
It is a reflection to a great extent as they are viewed as imperfect in every sense there are no real news stories that portray Muslims in a good light.
•To
what extent does media representations of Islam conflict with Muslims
collective Identity…
•Is
the Sun misrepresenting Muslim people as as a whole?
•What
is the Sun’s reasons for making these statements?
The headline doesn't accurately reflect how the survey was carried out. For example jihadis wasn't featured in the questions asked to the British Muslims, it was instead fighters, now this in itself is very vague because fighters could be referring to rebel groups formed to combat IS, it doesn't necessarily mean the IS group itself. Sympathy is also a loose word to use as it too in different contexts can have different meanings, sympathising with someone can mean you feel sorry for them, not only this but it can also mean understanding someone.
They were telling her to go back to her own country, it was 'get YOUR shit out of here' YOUR creating this 'us and them' vibe. People are naive to assume that Muslims are all foreign and people forget ideas spread all around the world and can be attractive for citizens of that country too.
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To what extent can Todorov’s theory/Cohen’s “Moral Panic” be used to
explain the increasing sense of Islamophobia?
After the events of 9/11 and the 7/7 bombings we have returned somewhat to a state of equilibrium however, we are always on alert when it comes to terrorism and new stricter polices have been put in place to combat terrorism, things are not the same. The papers do not shine a good light on Islam with the news stories being highly negative, creating moral panic but this moral panic leads individuals or groups to try and force Muslims to conform out of a state of fear. They make out all Muslims to be foreign as if they are from a completely different world, '.. On British streets' and its quite disgusting to see this very naive view being so widely accepted by the public and of course this is not only in Britain but across the west as well. We tend to say we are tolerant but are we? It's natural to fear what you don't understand but we take such a childish approach when we don't understand something. We aren't even trying to understand, we just accept we don't understand and then that becomes some sort of justification for making it wrong. You can tell someone that they're billions of stars in the sky and they'll believe you but you tell them that bench has wet paint they'll touch it. The same principle applies here, we don't even try to understand the religion but as soon as newspapers represents them all of a sudden it becomes indisputable, thats what all Muslims are like. We accept the words of some opinionated snobby reporter but Muslims from the religion tell you differently its too hard to believe.
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define what mediation and
collective identity is
Collective identity is how a group values themselves. Mediation is how the press manipulate information to share their side oft he story to create representations.
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