KILLING STEREOTYPES
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I am sure you are aware of the fact that most of
the world's Muslims are not ARABS, making the stereotyped image of a
Muslim as a terrorist even more demented. The country with the
largest number of Muslims is Indonesia, not even near the Arabian
Peninsula.
I know my approach is crude, condescending, and
unintelligent, but I have to make a point. If you have been buying
into the media's efforts at portraying Islam and Muslims as a bunch
of Medieval people with their clocks set to 1200 AD, you need to
press the 'off' button in your TV remote. At times it seems the
media is kissing up to the Muslim community with cliché statements
like "Muslims are peaceful people" and the
"terrorists are a minority not representing the true creed of
Islam". Unfortunately, it is also often very subtle in its
misinformation about Islam.
I am also becoming tired of reconciling Islamic
values, ideals, and culture with Western perspectives of what is
right or wrong. Sometimes I feel like just saying, "deal with
it" it is patriarchal, but not necessarily the evil picture
patriarchy has taken on lately. There will be many who will disagree
with me on this, but in my opinion Islam is not everyone.
continued: Hollywood's
responsibility ......
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