Examples Of Stereotypes Against Islam

Negative Stereotype Against Islam and Muslims
An impression that someone has in mind refers to a large group of people called stereotype; it can be positive or negative. If someone describes a huge group as stupid, lazy, failure, or dangerous that will be negative. On the other hand, if someone describes a group of people positively, such as what William Raspberry writes in The Handicap of Definition, "Maybe Jews have an innate talent for communication; maybe the Chinese are born with a gift from mathematical reasoning, maybe blacks are naturally blessed with athletic grace" (Paragraph 11). I personally think that stereotype is that people have grown up with without caring if it is positive or negative; two common negative stereotypes are
This is the most common idea about Muslims because people who are thinking in this way never take time to seek the truth. The main reason is that media has destroyed the public image about Islam and Muslims because it is the most effective tool on human beings. For instance, since World Trade Center was attacked on 2001, most American started to think that Muslims had done that attack. If the media spent more time to clarify this issue, the American or whoever else will not have negative idea about Islam and Muslims. Another example is that last year after I had a chance to visit an American high school, I had faced an aggressive attitude from one of the professors there, and that happened after he knew that I am Muslim. I think he act like this with me because when whatever bad happen, the media transfers it as a Muslims’ action. Thus, the idea of Muslims are terrorists is still exist nowadays, and because the media is the most effective aspects, it must to inform and educate anyone in the world about the truth, which are those actions never represent Islam and Muslims. Because when bad people, in the whole world, do something wrong, they cover the bad action by admitting that they related to specific group of people to hide