Enhancing the Understanding of ISLAM for the MEDIA

• Other Authors: Anuar Ab. Razak (Editor), Abu Bakar Abdul Majeed (Editor)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Kuala Lumpur Institute of Islamic Understanding Malaysia 2002
• Subjects: Islam; Islam in mass media; Mass media > Religious aspects > Islam
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 Islam is often potrayed in a negative light by the media. Among the common streotypes of Islam prevalent in North America and Europe are, it is religion of Arabs per se; it is primitive, uncivilised, fanatic, polygamous and anti-women; it is militant, anti-Western and promotes terrorism; it has little or no regard for human rights, tolerance and pluralism; and, that the Islamic world will remain backward unless it conforms to Western values, where modernity in the "Western" context is seen as the only form of civilisation.