Stereotypes Towards the Muslim Community

What people think when people say "Islam." Is it the Quran? Or Allah. Is there a word "jihad"? Or just September 11. Impact of images on today's people Do they affect our view and our "world of ours"? Everyone has the same world view. Does religion define our world, or does the image define our religion? To what extent allow us to succumb to the public image? Terrorist attacks in the United States on 11th September 2001 were widely interpreted as traumatic events that would hurt the symbolic resources of individuals and avoid the usual processes meaning creation and recognition.

After the attack on the 9th of September the stereotypes of Muslims and Muslim women began to have such big hatred for Muslims and Arabs. Muslims and Muslims are terrorists, thieves, viciousness, ruthless, extremists, malicious murderers, female abusers. The stereotypes of women concerning Western media are abused by Arab men who were violent, starting with a female sexual means of men, being mentally and physically abused. Some examples of ways in which Western media drew Arab Muslim women.

Muslim women living in Western countries are at greater risk than stereotypes and media distortions for Muslim women and they face poor inequality with women in the West. Female immigrants from Western European Arab Muslims are subject to sex discrimination. Morin (2009), immigrant Muslim women are vulnerable to cultural illusions and recent political conflicts that weaken the relationship with Arab-Western relations. Because Western media distort Arab Muslim women, immigrants are hard to live peacefully abroad and are regarded as "others" in Western society.

Myriad fixed ideas and distorted facts about Arab Muslim women were always the dominant presence of Western media. It all began with "clash of civilizations" written by Samuel Huntington in 1997. In his theory, Huntington emphasizes that Islam has clearly conflicting visions and behaviors concerning Western freedom and democratic thinking, and Islam is the main enemy of the West. In other words, the ideology of Muslims and Arabs is different from the West. The Western ideology of democracy and freedom contradicts the understanding of Islamic democracy and liberation. This is the beginning of Arab people's common stereotypes.