KeY CoNCePT - representation

in my study i am looking into the representation of islam and muslim, and how they are being respresentation in the western media !!

the subjet of islam and muslim in the western media is represnted in a very negative and they are normal potrayed as bad individuals and a bad group group. It is mainly negative because of all the recent terrorist attack. the "west" can not understand why islamic people would want to cause such devastion and there for feel much anger against them...this also allows them to sterotype all of dem into being religion fanatics....in the media they are termed as fanatic or fundamentalist.

of course this representation is not accurate and true and they just potray a small group of muslim extremeist. They present to everyone through "fake facts" that islam provokes all this voilent and hate.

well there are new opportunites for self representation of muslim, there is a new project called " project islam" that tries to stop the misrepresntation of muslim in the media:

** http://www.mpac.org/home_article_display.aspx?ITEM=56


also there are new media campaigns that try to show the audience the effect of "islamaphobia" - i personally seen a pack at a police station stating : " STOP ISLAMAPHOBIA".

there are many sites now that show how islam is represented wrong - up there on the net for the whole world to see!!