DISMANTLING THE STEREOTYPES OF ISLAM, ARAB, AND MUSLIM WOMEN IN THE VISUAL AND PRINT MEDIA OF THE WESTERN WORLD

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ABSTRACT: Reel Bad Arabs movie indicated that the 9/11 attacks provided a basis for bipolarizing the Western and the Muslims worlds. As a result, a lot of misconceptions of the Muslim world presented in the media embody a rigid concept, comparing and contrasting Western and Islamic/Arabic values in which Western values are favored after the 9/11 attack. Grounded in Reel Bad Arabs and several studies of print media about Islam representations, this paper examined the concepts of Islamophobia focusing on stereotypes of Islam and Arab women as well as the relationship of modernity, capitalism, and Islam as they are perceived by the Muslim world. Employing the agenda-setting theory and basic concepts of Islamophobia, this paper analyzed the selected texts in-depth qualitatively. Correspondingly, previous researches were used to expand the account of the relationship between Islam and the Western media. The analysis claimed that selected print and visual media depict Islam unfavorably leading to a misconception of Islam in the Western world. In fact, stereotypes of Islam proved to be more salient as promoted by the Western media. However, the Muslim media attempted to challenge this by producing several media products such as Kalam Nawaem to show a more “balanced” Islam.
Keywords: Stereotypes, media, Muslim, Islamophobia, Islam
Author: Tsuroyya Amz
Journal Code: jpkomunikasigg140004

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